This is ridiculous. I can travel everywhere in Europe, drink inside and outside, walk in dense crowds and in some places go clubbing. No one asked to see my vaccination certificate. No one wears masks in some countries.
Americans aren't a threat when we've collectively moved on.
This is what it's like here in Northern Indiana as well. Nobody is stopped from any usual activities, businesses are free to enforce mask mandates on their own premises but most aren't.
And you will generally have no idea whether people around you are vaccinated or not, unless you are in a University or somewhere that enforces vaccination, generally this is only if they are actually large enough to register on the local scale as "potential identified source of many new infections" and would want to stay out of the news in that way – ahem, I mean somewhere that is invested in keeping people safe.
I am planning some cross-country travel for a conference in October (really big one, you might have heard of it) and I am really having a hard time with it. I've mostly been isolated for the past year and a half. I am vaccinated and I would really like to see some people. But I do feel like a plague rat even making these plans.
Given the number of people around me (especially as you drive outside of the city parts of Indiana and into farm country) who wear their un-vaccinated status on their sleeve or bumper sticker, as a point of pride or honor, I wouldn't say we're not a threat. But still generally agree with the sentiment.
> Americans aren't a threat when we've collectively moved on.
You may have collectively moved on, but the United States is still banning travel from many, many regions that have a much lower prevalence of COVID-19 than it does.
Reciprocally banning Americans from traveling seems like an appropriate response.
Americans aren't a threat when we've collectively moved on.