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Originally Posted by Fossilkid93
Just got to Paris a couple days ago. They didn't even check a single thing in the airport coming from Spain. So far it's been a solid experience. I think there's only been one place to check our covid QR codes. If you hit the main museums then it will probably be obligatory, but no big deal for us.
You mentioning this brought up a really strange memory that I had from earlier in the summer, around May-June. I was in Amsterdam and was taking the train to Zurich by way of transfer in Paris. I boarded the train in Amsterdam, then got off the train in Paris into an absolute mass of people and I was extremely confused. I come to realize that the Paris police had set up a checkpoint off of this train to check vaccination status or negative test results to be able to get off the train and enter Paris. I was ****ing stunned. I did not know either was needed yet the 100s and 100s of people there, every single one, was showing paperwork to the French police.
The line starts dwindling from several 100 people to a much sparser crowd and I'm still figuring out what to do. I kind of forget my thought process at the time. As it gets to the 10s of people I ask a person set or two if they have everything and anyone I ask says that they do. I am literally the only person on the entire ****ing train that didn't get the memo. Stupid American obv.
So I walk up to the police checkpoint as the literal last person from the train, and I speak French, so I'm able to communicate to them pretty efficiently. I say that I don't have any paperwork. The guy screams at me about as loud as anyone can scream in my face. He does this repeatedly, many times. I'm just standing there unsure what to do or say. He's screaming at me but I'm just responding with the equivalent of "Okay, sure, but what do you want me to do about this in order to be productive here." After a minute of this he just screams to me to enter the country and move on.
The micro experience just said apparently that you can enter France in that case if you were vaccinated, have a neg test or want to get screamed at for one minute. Your choice. Lol.
Glad things were easier for you.