Originally Posted by Boraxo

Your quotes are accurate but the reality on the ground is different. From what I have personally observed and heard, many hotels are not checking in-state visitors at check-in at least in NorCal. We checked into a Hyatt Place and no comment was made except that they were grateful for my business. Also it does not appear that AirBnB has shut down listings as it did earlier this year during Stay-At-Home part one. So there is a stay-at-home order but I see zero enforcement for in-state residents. I'm not advocating one way or another here (that's another forum) just providing practical info - you can make your own decisions.

Originally Posted by sdsearch

Regarding hotels: Reports back in the spring were sporadic (in some hotel forums on FT), but a few hotels were asking for documentation proving that the guest was an "essential" worker. The very few people who reported the hotel demanding that, those people had such letters on them, so they didn't know how the hotel would have handled someone not having such letters. I didn't see any report back then of someone being asked for such documentation by the hotel and not being able to provide it. (But then, none of the reports I saw were from right at the start of the spring shutdowns; they were well into them, by which time everyone know which places were shut down and most people were avoiding hotel stays in such places.)

Originally Posted by pallas

Thanks, folks. I just don't like being tracked and on a database (I have a covid test done every other week for work and am healthy besides sinuses/allergies). It's quite different in the one police state in the country where an online form produces a QR code, and on arrival in most of the airports, there are national guardsmen either checking for the QR code or making you fill out the paper form, right near the gates.

Originally Posted by GUWonder

If you're referring to NY, the reference to it as a "police state" threw me off since it's not like any real ones and is not even making an effort to be a very effective one (if it were even trying to be that). Filling out a health form and then maybe getting some reminder text message about the Covid-19 situation isn't anything worse than than the pre-Covid-19 stuff that has gone on when at US airports, elsewhere inside the US when "near" the US's international borders, or even at times over the decades for some interstate domestic travel. As you're using US commercial flights presumably with a valid ID for yourself: you're always being tracked when doing so, and that is with your booked travels piling into databases. And even using a cheap disposable (no-internet connectivity) phone with a disposable prepaid phone SIM to try to minimize being tracked provides no protection from the surveillance systems aimed at travelers by desire of the federal authorities.

NY area airports have way more of an effort underway to get the contact info for public health purposes and to use it a bit than LAX or SFO does. It's not so bad to get a text message from NYS about the Covid-19 situation even after leaving the state following a transit using the PANYNJ airports. Actually, I sort of appreciated that NY sent out those text messages using the contact info from the public health forms since it showed at least that they were making use of the information provided rather than just making busy work for passengers but not making any use of the info whatsoever. FWIW, at least when submitting those forms even in person at LGA and JFK, there's no TSA ID-checking like process going on or other demand to prove that all the information supplied is what it should be before being able to proceed.

Originally Posted by exwannabe

Kind of doubt that LA County enforces the Q very seriously.

Originally Posted by dw

Yes, I haven’t received any sort of follow up yet in LA. (In NYC they will call you and ask whether you are quarantining- of course, it’s all for optics... you could be doing anything but an affirmative “yes” answer is sufficient for them.)

Originally Posted by TrojanTraveler

hHave you had anyone show up at your door in NY? This happened to someone I know, but this was in December

Originally Posted by dw

I personally have not though allegedly that did happen to a friend of a friend who flew back from Florida... also back in December I think. I have to imagine that is incredibly rare for domestic travelers. (I know everyone coming back from the UK is supposed to get a personal visit, though I’m not sure if they’ve had the manpower to follow through on that.)

Originally Posted by TrojanTraveler

hHave you had anyone show up at your door in NY? This happened to someone I know, but this was in December

Originally Posted by downinit

The details are quite scant, to say the least, but Los Angeles County has issued an order for everyone who traveled outside of the county to quarantine for 10 days. The wording is a bit absurd, as many people cross into/out of LA County every day for work. Also absolutely nothing regarding enforcement/penalties, which I suspect will be nil.

Originally Posted by flyingdoc747

Hi all,
I have a potential visitor flying into visit me and they have to fly into LAX. I read about a mandatory form they need to fill out about a 10 day quarantine. They are only staying for 4 days in LA with me. Has anyone have any experience with this? Will she get in trouble? I also am worried to start flying as when I return to LAX, I’ll be hit with this form. I have been fully vaccinated already. Any experiences or advice? I can still have my friend cancel their ticket. Thanks!