Originally Posted by
iahphx
Thanks. This vaccine passport thing is quite rare in the USA. I will carry around a photocopy of our Covid vaccination cards in my pocket. I find it hard to believe a restauranteur will actually ask me for it, though. I guess it depends on how fearful they are and how high the fines are. Are people routinely whipping out thei vaccine app when they arrive at a restaurant? FWIW, in the UK, the percentage of vaccinated citizens getting Covid is now about the same as the unvaccinated, so it's hard to see how this game will continue for very long.
Restaurants will absolutely ask for it if you're dining in, I just saw the cashier scan someone's barcode today at a fast food hot dog restaurant. (She didn't check it against an ID card so I'm not sure how useful it was but ....) They don't check on takeout orders, only dine-in
There's no requirements for masks outdoors and few people wear them outdoors but masks are required indoors in public places like stores and transit and compliance is near 100% at least in mainstream places. Today was the first time I've ever seen people breaking that when I took the metro after midnight but even so it was one person with no mask and two girls with masks below their mouth. And a homeless dude. The train was fairly crowded for 1am and everyone else was wearing masks.
Other than that life is pretty relaxed right now... but the R rate is 1.17 and if nothing else we've all had two years training on how exponential growth works so yeah, things could change quickly. In theory the government policy is that there won't be any new lockdowns -- any new restrictions will be implemented with the vaccination passport rather than outright closures.
All that said.... Most offices remain closed so downtown is .... pretty quiet... And most organized group activities are either suspended or limited in some ways. My board game group isn't meeting. The hockey arena near me doesn't allow spectators, only people actively involved in the activities and only immediately before their event, and so on.