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. 
Registered electronically in the vaccine database, so the lady last time said I no longer needed the card.
I feel like since omicron, everyone who ever goes out in public has been exposed, whether by vaccine, by infection, or both, so i don’t think there’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 it’s a big ask.
But that kind of population effort seems more valuable than checking individuals for vaccination at this point in time.
I’ve never bothered to take it out of my purse, so the answer is yes.
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.
I’ve since retired, but it happens I’m traveling today and my passport and COVID card is in my pocket right now. But it hasn’t been except for traveling since maybe late 2020.
I’m still a bit curious. Was this event an outlier, in that it was one event out of many others that don’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 – 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 … I’d expect to come up empty.
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 I’ve always done that for all vaccinations before COVID.
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. I’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.
No. The last two booster/vaccinations aren’t recorded on the card, anyway. I think that’s a total of five vaccinations I’m up to. Whatever is the latest, maybe a month or two ago.
I don’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 state’s database. Or I can grab my existing card off the wall where it’s remained pinned with a thumbtack for a long while, if I know in advance that some karen is going to require “proof” 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 state’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.
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.
That’s the first item addressed in Pax East 2024’s FAQ page – masking and vaccination mandates for this year’s convention are lifted. In 2023 Pax East and Pax West differed, the latter having no COVID-related mandates while Pax East mantained them.
EDIT: This is just Reddit, but it’s not clear whether or not Pax East checked vaccination status for their 2023 convention. Maybe it was spotty – some people checked, some didn’t. The mask mandate was apparently well in place at the 2023 show.
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.
I went to a C-mart Thursday and I’d estimate 80%-90% of everyone in that store was wearing a mask. (Although it obviously wasn’t required, since 10%-20% didn’t.)
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.
Wow.
We’ve established before that you and I seem to live in rather opposite worlds COVID-wise. Regardless of our personal opinions, the environments we’re each embedded in are very different. I live in greater Miami; if you don’t mind sharing, where (roughly) do you live? You may have said previously in some thread, but if so, I’m not recalling it.
I prefer not to say where i live publicly. But i sent you a DM.
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 I’ve seen in early information from those cons for 2024, there’s no sign that they’ve reversed course again on the topic.
On topic: I still have my CDC card, though it’s big enough that it didn’t fit in my wallet, so I didn’t ever routinely carry it around. It’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 it’s no longer up-to-date, anyway.
I still have mine in my wallet, just in case a new strain comes along and we’re all required to show it again. It’s not like it’s causing any extra strain on my knees, unlike my wife’s wallet, in which she carries membership cards in every organization she’s ever paid into. I can’t convince her that they’re meaningless, as they all have your info in their computers. Her wallet looks like a tiny bomb went off in it.
They haven’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.
Mine’s still in my wallet pretty much from force of habit.
Send her to r/knolling.