Vaccine Passports. In many places across America, the idea is pretty well dead - and in some states they've been made illegal. Of course, being from the West Coast, it's still up in the air for us.
It's fascinating to watch this play out from Vancouver, Washington, as we have two states, and two very different populations, to watch this reality play out. On the north side of the Columbia River, the situation is similar to many areas of the country, where you can wear your mask if you want to. You can leave your mask behind. Cause if you don't mask, if your friends don't mask then they must be friends of mine.
Ahem, sorry. Your faithful producer got carried away to the 80s there.
A friend who just returned to the PNW from Oklahoma said the masks are almost a joke there. Around here, it's probably a 50/50 split. Even in Oregon and Washington, as you move toward the heartland of America, you will see fewer and fewer people obediently wearing masks.
But if we cross the river from Vancouver into Portland, businesses are violating HIPAA and requiring to see your vaccine passport in order to go inside unmuzzled.
Today we take a look at how people are reacting to the masks, what the future may hold, the ways state governments are handling forward movement, and what this means for our long-term liberty as citizens of the United States of America... or subjects as it seems so many want to be.