Music promoter Bryce Dow-Williamson, who booked the Rainbow Girls concert staged Friday at SOMO Village in Rohnert Park — one of the few sizable live shows in the county in more than a year — said he is monitoring the option, too.
“Initially, it was like, ‘OK, we’ll ask for proof of vaccination or negative test,’” Dow-Williamson said. “Then it was, well, how do we divide those people up? That’s the benefit of dealing with larger folks (on tour). They have some other guinea pigs we can watch.”
One industry poised to make use of vaccine passports is event planning. It’s hard to imagine an occupation hit harder by the pandemic than wedding planners, who, at least in California, went most of the year without any work.
As receptions become a thing again, most clients are asking for the vaccination proof that might allow them bigger invite lists, said Corina Beczner, owner of Santa Rosa-based Vibrant Events.
“My interpretation is if you want to have a wedding or work a wedding this year, you should probably be 100% vaccinated,” she said.
Not that the process is easy. As Beczner noted, vaccine passports mean a planner must coordinate with vendors like caterers and florists; if they’re going to be on-site, they must comply as well. “That gets weird with HIPAA,” she said, referring to the federal law that ensures privacy for medical patients.
It can present logistical challenges, too. Beczner is looking at using an app called CrowdPass, an encrypted technology that would allow her to scan guests’ phones and verify their vaccination status as they step off the shuttle bus to the reception site. She can do that, she said, because she tends to handle luxury weddings.
“There’s more available in our budgets to add in services like testing on site, or adding in an app, which costs money,” Beczner said. “Those are things my clientele are willing to do. The hard part is when there’s no planner involved. Like when a family wants to invite 150 people, and they’re not willing to compromise.”
Not every establishment is willing to absorb those headaches.
“I wouldn’t do it,” said James Pattison, owner of Windsor Bowling Center. “I just think it would be too hard to police that. With the amount of people we have coming in and out on a daily basis, it would be very difficult to do. Me personally, I’m not really a fan of asking people what their medical history is.”
There’s another reason some businesses are leery of the vaccine passport system. They aren’t clear on the county guidance. The information in the tiers is pretty explicit for family entertainment centers, for example. But until she sees specific approval of vaccine passports in the county health order, Jenny Ogston said, Epicenter can’t take the risk.
That’s a common sentiment. Many business owners and managers, it seems, are unsure of their current footing, especially as CDC, state and county guidelines on COVID safety have begun to diverge. Multiple people interviewed for this story were under the impression that requiring proof of vaccination could ease requirements for things like masking and social distancing. Under a strict reading of the tiers, that is not the case.
Despite the confusion and skepticism regarding vaccine passports, Sonoma County Supervisor David Rabbitt said he’s “more comfortable with it than not” as his county continues its push for herd immunity.
“I think if you incentivize people to get the vaccine, saying life will be much easier — that you won’t have to sit with a mask on an airplane, or whatever it may be,” Rabbitt said, “that’s not the worst thing to get that last 20% of folks over the top.”
You can reach Phil Barber at 707-521-5263 or phil.barber@pressdemocrat.com. On Twitter @Skinny_Post.
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