We don’t care if our guests are vaccinated or not, would never ask and it’s none of our business.
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We ARE, and will disclose that. All we care about is valid credit card and no red flags (bad reviews and/or local guest who is young (18-25).
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OMG I just heard about a 54 year old very health compromised individual who chose no vaccine. He is on a ventilator and in a coma with covid… COVID is still rampant and looking for antivaxxers to infect…
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False. In this case Covid is a SARS (fixed it @muddy) variant and as such the vaccine is a preventative, NOT a cure.
The CDC keeps changing the “rules.” I’m vaccinated, I’m an in-home host, and older.
I don’t want to take any chances and bleach is my friend 24 hours after the guest departs.
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It would behoove everyone to remember this virus has been studied for less than two years. Even if you believe some of the more outlandish theories out there, this is a very short time in science terms. That’s why I’m still socializing outside, avoiding indoors with people I don’t know and so on. Based on a very small sample of evidence, I’m going to do what seems safest.
There’s always going to be another concert, dinner or Airbnb booking; I only have one life.
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Wrong. Coronavirus is in a completely different family of viruses from influenza.
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Here is a reminder to people who think that the CDCs guidance changes are somehow indicative of a problem: Science is not absolute, and as more information and evidence appears, as research continues, as more knowledge is obtained, of course the guidance will be revised. We expect science to continually do this. For those folks who look at a moment in time and compare it with now and say what was given as guidance in 2020 was wrong or false, please respect the reality that knowledge is empirical and not static.
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Unfortunately, there are 75 million citizens of the US that do not understand that, or most other simple science concepts, nor do they understand civics or the US Constitution. Back in the 60s we were the best educated country in the world. So sad.
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We were? Well there sure was a lot of horrible treatment of minorities, gays and women back then and education didn’t prevent it.
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Wrong. Coronavirus is in a completely different family of viruses from influenza.
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You’re correct. I wrote in haste. Covid is a SARS virus and as such is much more lethal.
However, I am not incorrect in stating that this NEW variant of a SARS virus is lethal and that vaccines are NOT a cure for a flu or a SARS strain.
Yup.
I’m quite aware of this and know that with great freedom comes great responsibility to society.
I’ve been hosting and that’s going to stop with this new strain and the masks off/masks on confusion. I’ll wear my mask in the grocery store and I don’t care who makes fun of me.
I’m literally lucky to be here, and past my “sell by” date for what I dealt with. I’d like to keep it that way.
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Usually I’m right on the same page as NordlingHouse but I can only imagine that he’s a lot younger than me and wasn’t around in the sixties. The best-educated country in the world wouldn’t have allowed segregation, the way women were treated, Vietnam and so many other things.
I would also like to know the sources for that claim.
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I think it’s a bit strange for someone who is, going by the user name not a host, to inform experienced hosts what they should and should not put in their listings.
The listing is the only way we can ensure that we get guests who are a good fit for the accommodation we provide and we all put verbiage in our listings to discourage the type of guest we don’t want.
No, it isn’t useless at all. It’s simple copywriting skills.
For instance, in my listings, I make it clear that my apartment is a few steps from the rentals so ‘I’m happy to help you with anything you might need during your stay’. Yes, this ‘shoos away’ potential guests who want to get up to stuff out of sight of the host.
As this copy keeps both rentals fully booked all year round, with 99.9 great guests, you can see why this ‘shooing’ works very well indeed.
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Seems you are a minority, seems a lot of hosts are still treating AirBnb like a hobby harkening back to hosting people on their couch as if they are a family guest, ignoring the facts that AirBnb has long since moved away from those beginnings and is running a for-profit public company. On the one hand host cry and whine why they don’t get all 5 star reviews and on the other they show a complete lack of hospitality by discriminating against guests based on their political leanings, who they voted for, vaccinations etc…
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It appears that your only purpose for posting on this forum is to tell hosts what a horrible lot they are.
If you aren’t a host, WTH do you know about hosting?
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Nope. I think he’s older than you.
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Blimey. There aren’t many people who can say that. 
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I don’t understand this comment. There have been multiple threads about staying safe & shutdowns required by law & personally choosing to shutter/snooze a listing for a while.
Like @Jefferson, I don’t care if guests are vaccinated. I host remotely, stay booked & enjoy 95% of my guests. For all but 1 of my summer prime season bookings there is at least 24 hours between check out-in and high MERV hvac filters to filter the virus out of the air (too damn hot to open windows)
Let’s reel it in and consider who is on this forum.
We’ve had blunt, at times emphatic, discussions about the right thing to do, Airbnb’s status, different booking platforms, etc.
Btw I truly believe if their money is green, they treat me, my rental & my neighbors with respect, I don’t care about the details.
No one here is naive. Well, if they are naive it is by choice.
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Sure we do. I personally have used used this site as a “vent my frustrations” opportunity.
However anyone who doesn’t have the respect, the courtesy, to keep their mouth shut about conspiracy theories & is disrespectful of me, I don’t need. Honestly, they don’t need me either.
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No hosts consider Airbmb to be a “hobby”. A hobby is something one does for pleasure, in their leisure time, because they enjoy it. It’s something they would do whether it earned them any money or not.
Airbnb has never been couch surfing- it has always been something guests pay for. Even hosts like me who host in their home, and often have a relationship with some of their guests that is more like roommates or friends, wouldn’t do it for free.
And I can assure you that no one considers fishing other people’s hair and soap slime out of the shower drain, or trying to remove whatever stains the guests got on the sheets or towels, to be a “hobby”.
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@Rolf, can you clarify what you mean that you were “approved by Airbnb” to use this language? Does Airbnb require us to ask their permission to ask a guest’s vaccine status or to state a preference for vaccinated guests?
My listing has been shut down for a year, so I’m still getting up to speed on the latest Airbnb rules and am trying to figure out how to reopen my home share safely.
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