When people here were agitating for vax passports, they claimed it would actually benefit the local economy. People would emerge from their houses, and come here from other jurisdictions, because they'd know it was "safe" here. This would more than make up for the loss of unjabbed customers driven out to neighboring counties. Or at least that was the just-so story. Nobody ever put any real numbers behind it, of course, and nobody really believed it or cared if it was true. It was just a handwave.

County officials fortunately had a better grasp of reality. They made all sorts of noises about supporting vax passports, so that the ones up for re-election could get the neurotics to vote for them. But they dragged it out for a while and then quietly let it die. (Due credit to the small but vocal opposition led by Bethany Mandel and others, though, who made clear that they WOULD be held accountable for the damage if they tried to implement it.)