# POLL: Do you still carry your CDC COVID vaccination card? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [April 11, 2023, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-still-carry-your-cdc-covid-vaccination-card/982537 "2023-04-11T22:20:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2024, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-still-carry-your-cdc-covid-vaccination-card/982537/81 "2024-01-30T17:32:04Z")
Open to the public. I went to a furry convention. I was assisting a friend who was running a session on square dancing, and got a volunteer pass (but they messed up, leading to the complexities of my ticket.) I wonder if furries, many of whom were wearing full head coverings, are less bothered by masks than the general public. šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2024, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-still-carry-your-cdc-covid-vaccination-card/982537/82 "2024-01-30T17:44:15Z")
Registered electronically in the vaccine database, so the lady last time said I no longer needed the card. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2024, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-still-carry-your-cdc-covid-vaccination-card/982537/83 "2024-01-30T19:58:05Z")
I feel like since omicron, everyone who ever goes out in public has been exposed, whether by vaccine, by infection, or both, so i donā€™t think thereā€™s much social benefit to having a card someone can check for just the vaccine option of that. I wonder if mandatory boosters of school kids would reduce the incidence (especially among those who have weaker immune systems) enough to be worth it, but enough people have nasty side effects from the vaccine (especially younger people with more vigorous immune systems) that itā€™s a big ask. But that kind of population effort seems more valuable than checking individuals for vaccination at this point in time. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2024, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-still-carry-your-cdc-covid-vaccination-card/982537/84 "2024-01-30T22:43:16Z")
Iā€™ve never bothered to take it out of my purse, so the answer is yes. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2024, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-still-carry-your-cdc-covid-vaccination-card/982537/85 "2024-01-31T16:28:44Z")
Once we got past the last of collective COVID-give-a-shitness in the USA I paperclipped my vax card into my passport because I was still traveling for work and many countries had a much longer-lasting interest in COVID in general and vax status in particular than did the USA. Iā€™ve since retired, but it happens Iā€™m traveling today and my passport and COVID card is in my pocket right now. But it hasnā€™t been except for traveling since maybe late 2020. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2024, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-still-carry-your-cdc-covid-vaccination-card/982537/86 "2024-01-31T16:33:20Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > I actually went to a ā€œvaccination requiredā€ event a week ago (it also required masks) but due to complexities about my ticket, they forgot to ask me to price i was vaccinated. My friends had to show proof of vaccination, though. Iā€™m still a bit curious. Was this event an outlier, in that it was one event out of many others that donā€™t bother with COVID concerns of any kind? Or are you still, in 2024, frequently attending COVID-aware events, both public and private? Now, I am in a red state ā€“ though immediately adjacent to a deep blue city. I could be wrong, but if I aimed to find a local public event that checked for COVID vaccination today ā€¦ Iā€™d expect to come up empty. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2024, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-still-carry-your-cdc-covid-vaccination-card/982537/87 "2024-01-31T16:37:28Z")
My COVID card filled up long ago, and they have always refused to give me another one when getting a booster. I always ask for documentation including the batch details, and store it electronically so I could pull it up on my phone if necessary. But Iā€™ve always done that for all vaccinations before COVID. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2024, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-still-carry-your-cdc-covid-vaccination-card/982537/88 "2024-01-31T16:47:49Z")
> [@bordelond](#): > > Or are you still, in 2024, frequently attending COVID-aware events, both public and private? I am still attending covid-aware events. I wore a mask at a dance last night, as did a large minority of the other attendees. Iā€™m going to an event in April that will require daily testing. I asked people to test for covid before attending my new years Eve party, and to stay home if they had new cold-like symptoms. The guy who invited me to volunteer at the furry convention was not wearing a mask at the dance where he announced he was looking for volunteers. ---
**Author:** ![ColdBrew50](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9a140/32.png) [@ColdBrew50](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColdBrew50)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2024, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-still-carry-your-cdc-covid-vaccination-card/982537/89 "2024-01-31T20:40:20Z")
No. The last two booster/vaccinations arenā€™t recorded on the card, anyway. I think thatā€™s a total of five vaccinations Iā€™m up to. Whatever is the latest, maybe a month or two ago. I donā€™t fly by airplane any more, except under great protest for some future unknown event, and anyone who wishes to verify the dates can ask an actual medical person to look it up on the stateā€™s database. Or I can grab my existing card off the wall where itā€™s remained pinned with a thumbtack for a long while, if I know in advance that some karen is going to require ā€œproofā€ like some grubby piece of paper covered in dates and scribbles by various techs. So, yes, I carry the CV-19 vaccination card in the sense that I carry a record of all other vaccinations: those are inscribed within the stateā€™s registry, and in that electronic form, they are meaningful and verifiable, unlike the paper token, which has no value to me other than as a wall decoration, or possibly to some clueless official who mistakenly believes a random slip of paper covered in scribbles is any kind of adequate proof. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2024, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-still-carry-your-cdc-covid-vaccination-card/982537/90 "2024-02-02T20:34:14Z")
I expect Pax East, a massive video game convention in Boston, to ask for proof of vaccination **and** require masking like it did last year. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2024, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-still-carry-your-cdc-covid-vaccination-card/982537/91 "2024-02-02T20:48:24Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > I expect Pax East, a massive video game convention in Boston, to ask for proof of vaccination **and** require masking like it did last year . Thatā€™s the first item addressed in Pax East 20 **24** ā€™s FAQ page ā€“ **[masking and vaccination mandates for this yearā€™s convention are lifted](https://east.paxsite.com/en-us/info/faq.html)**. In 20 **23** Pax East and Pax West differed, the latter having no COVID-related mandates while Pax East mantained them. EDIT: **[This is just Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/PAX/comments/1562ggl/will_pax_west_2023_require_vaccinationcovid/)**, but itā€™s not clear whether or not Pax East checked vaccination status for their 2023 convention. Maybe it was spotty ā€“ some people checked, some didnā€™t. The mask mandate was apparently well in place at the 2023 show. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2024, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-still-carry-your-cdc-covid-vaccination-card/982537/92 "2024-02-03T02:35:29Z")
I am simply gobsmacked that any group event of any sort except _maybe_ a convention of people with severe respiratory health compromise (lung transplant survivors maybe?) would even consider any sort of masking or vaccination protocol in 2024. That literally sounds as weird to me as requiring that everyone submit a fresh HIV test or agree to wear a beret for the duration. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2024, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-still-carry-your-cdc-covid-vaccination-card/982537/93 "2024-02-03T14:40:15Z")
I went to a C-mart Thursday and Iā€™d estimate 80%-90% of everyone in that store was wearing a mask. (Although it obviously wasnā€™t required, since 10%-20% didnā€™t.) ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2024, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-still-carry-your-cdc-covid-vaccination-card/982537/94 "2024-02-03T14:41:31Z")
No, but I keep it in my lockbox. I might carry it in my passport on my trip to Europe later this year just in case. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2024, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-still-carry-your-cdc-covid-vaccination-card/982537/95 "2024-02-03T14:49:41Z")
Wow. Weā€™ve established before that you and I seem to live in rather opposite worlds COVID-wise. Regardless of our personal opinions, the environments weā€™re each embedded in are very different. I live in greater Miami; if you donā€™t mind sharing, where (roughly) do you live? You may have said previously in some thread, but if so, Iā€™m not recalling it. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2024, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-still-carry-your-cdc-covid-vaccination-card/982537/96 "2024-02-03T14:57:04Z")
I prefer not to say where i live publicly. But i sent you a DM. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2024, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-still-carry-your-cdc-covid-vaccination-card/982537/97 "2024-02-03T15:00:30Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > I expect Pax East, a massive video game convention in Boston, to ask for proof of vaccination **and** require masking like it did last year. I go to a few gaming conventions each year: Origins, which is on the bigger side (about 20,000 attendees), and a couple of mid-sized ones (2,000 to 3,000). In 2022, they required proof of vaccination to attend; one of them also required masking in 2022. None of them required it last year, and based on what Iā€™ve seen in early information from those cons for 2024, thereā€™s no sign that theyā€™ve reversed course again on the topic. On topic: I still have my CDC card, though itā€™s big enough that it didnā€™t fit in my wallet, so I didnā€™t ever routinely carry it around. Itā€™s in a desk drawer, in case I ever need it, though I forgot to bring it along when I got the latest booster in October, so itā€™s no longer up-to-date, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2024, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-still-carry-your-cdc-covid-vaccination-card/982537/98 "2024-02-03T15:34:25Z")
I still have mine in my wallet, just in case a new strain comes along and weā€™re all required to show it again. Itā€™s not like itā€™s causing any extra strain on my knees, unlike my wifeā€™s wallet, in which she carries membership cards in every organization sheā€™s ever paid into. I canā€™t convince her that theyā€™re meaningless, as they all have your info in their computers. Her wallet looks like a tiny bomb went off in it. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2024, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-still-carry-your-cdc-covid-vaccination-card/982537/99 "2024-02-03T16:31:12Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > I forgot to bring it along when I got the latest booster in October, so itā€™s no longer up-to-date, anyway. They havenā€™t generally been putting boosters on the cards, anyway. My card was full up before I got the last booster, so there would also have been no place to put it. Mineā€™s still in my wallet pretty much from force of habit. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2024, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-still-carry-your-cdc-covid-vaccination-card/982537/100 "2024-02-03T16:38:24Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > my wifeā€™s wallet, in which she carries membership cards in every organization sheā€™s ever paid into Send her to r/knolling. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-still-carry-your-cdc-covid-vaccination-card/982537.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-still-carry-your-cdc-covid-vaccination-card/982537.md?page=6)