I miss Canada. I make a point of spending as much of my travel/recreational income as possible up there, mainly because I don't want to support anything American more than absolutely necessary.
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I miss Canada. I make a point of spending as much of my travel/recreational income as possible up there, mainly because I don't want to support anything American more than absolutely necessary.
You americans should buy a mail order Canadian bride so you can cross the border freely.
Perhaps I just found my calling as an international pimp?
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Aw, that's cute. Maybe if you tell the border guard that he'll let you through. And don't forget to suck his dick while you're at it.Quote:
Originally Posted by glademaster
How much for a crunchy BC hippy chick with a place in Sayulita?Quote:
Originally Posted by Shorty_J
Asking for a friend..
Pretty sure Maiden did a song about this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shorty_J
That said, send some referrals
yeah i thot the same thing, never mind the border police ... call the fashion policeQuote:
Originally Posted by The AD
I literally just came up with this business opportunity... let me flesh it out and find some suitable material.Quote:
Originally Posted by abraham
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Will PM you a quote later...Quote:
Originally Posted by I Skied Bandini Mountain
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Effective October 31, 2020, residents of Campobello Island, New Brunswick; Stewart, British Columbia; Northwest Angle, Minnesota; and Hyder, Alaska will be exempt from mandatory 14-day quarantine only to access the necessities of life (e.g., food, medical services) from the nearest Canadian or American community. Point Roberts, WA, was left off the list.
In addition, students from Canada and the U.S. who regularly cross the border to attend school, along with one driver, and children who are subject to shared custody arrangements, along with one parent, are exempt from mandatory 14-day quarantine.
https://www.canada.ca/en/public-safe...trictions.html
On October 22, the Governments of Canada and Alberta announced a joint pilot program to safely test an alternative to the current 14-day quarantine requirement for international travellers while continuing to protect Canadians from COVID-19.
It's only time......they're starting to crumble...
Yeh, with two negative tests in a week, one when you arrive and another 7 days later you get to skip the rest of the quarantine period. Probably not going to make a lot of difference to the numbers if you still have to stay locked down for at least a week.
Duno about the other 2 but Hyder is at the very southern tip of AK which is 3 or 4 hrs from the next small town BC, its an unprotected USA border crossing cuz once yer in HYder you can't get anywhere else in the USA or Canada, so it makes total sense to not worry about the quarantine I think there is literaly one HS kid in HyderQuote:
Originally Posted by altasnob
But Pt Roberts is real close to major population centers and the real border, it makes more sense to leave that closed
When the fuck is this border opening up? I had plans on a road trip through the Kootenays just before COVID hit, and would like to reschedule it for this fall. Rate of infection in WA is about what it is in BC, and I believe a higher portion of WA is vacinated. So what are we waiting for?
They just extended the closure again, for the 14th time of the pandemic, until June 21 and are saying it will remain closed "until conditions change very substantively."
https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/...#storylink=cpy
the closure seems very popular with the canadian folks.
I'm canadian but obviously don't speak for everyone.
I think that part of it is "other blaming". I think it's happening everywhere, people thinking everyone else is the danger... and in my personal experiences going in to small ski towns this winter, I felt like the behaviour of the locals was sketchier than where I live in Calgary, and yet at one pub I got turned away because I didn't live in town. The assumption that because I don't live there I'm more dangerous than locals taking liberties with the public health advisories was bizarre to me.
The other part is that it's tough to ask Canadians not to travel and then open the border to Americans... sends a bad signal.
Unfortunately I think the border won't reopen until the vaccination rate in both countries (and we are way behind you) gives us a chance at herd immunity. They say everyone in Canada who wants to be vaccinated will have both shots by this fall... I'd say that's when it might happen.
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I hope they bust out the vax passport like in Europe. May incentivize more people to get vaccinated. Hell, I wish Biden says $1000 tax break with vaccine instead of sending checks to everyone. That way we can send more message to anti vaxxers that government will leave you alone.
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I would say Sept is a safe bet. They just announced a re-opening plan in quebec and everything is contingent on getting 75% of the pop vaccinated with two shots by August, then we can stop wearing masks indoors, visit with other households, go to raves and make out with strangers and go back to pretty much normal. We're on track to reach that. Once enough people are vaxxed transmissions rates and severity go down and the pressure is eased of our communist health care system. I'm thinking COVID will still be around but it won't overwhelm hospitals anymore. I wouldn't count on the boarder being open for non-essential travel before Sept.Quote:
Originally Posted by altasnob
Edit to add, maybe proof of vaccination would allow people to go over the border, but the time to implement a system to screen for that would probably take the whole summer anyway.
Of course they extended it, Canada is still in the middle of the "third wave" and so is the USA, albeit in pockets.Quote:
Originally Posted by altasnob
Trudeau hinted at the border opening once vaccinations hit ~75%, which should be very soon for first doses at least. What needs to change is having BOTH countries have enough vaccinated people that there isn't any risk of further flare-ups of COVID should they allow non-essential travel again. It's completely understandable, as it would be total political suicide to open things up too early and trigger another wave of outbreaks (not to mention it would also just be a dick move to get more people sick for a not-that-good reason).
Don't worry, as cases continue to decline and things improve across the country they'll first open up domestic non-essential travel and then international. Nobody knows when this will be, it's not really up to anyone specific - rather at the whim of a contagious disease and the collective behavior of the entire North American population with respect to getting their vaccines.
Border closures can only be for 4 weeks at a time so that's why you see them extended so frequently.
I hope Canada is ok with the fact the US will never get to 75% of our population vaccinated. Right now, only 37% in US are fully vaccinated (that's of everyone, including kids). 60% of adults have had at least one shot.
How is Canada going to get to 75% of total vaccinated? Isn't a third of your country crazy anti-vax like the US? Oh well, at least Europe is opening their doors to visitors. Find out Friday if US makes the list.
I agree, but want to point out that it ain't everyone. There's an income limit. I didn't get a check at all this most recent time.Quote:
Originally Posted by tmokes
Na even in Alabamaberta vaccine hesitancy is only 25%Quote:
Originally Posted by altasnob
..and that’s Alberta
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5840497
Yeah people seem to be pretty compliant here and are down with being vaxxed for the most part. Seems that the uptake is actually quite good in QC.
During the announcement yesterday on easing of restrictions the Premier of Quebec (i guess the governor for you guys?) was asked about people coming from other countries and his response was that as long as 75% of Quebs are fully vaccinated people can come here because Quebec society will be protected and there will be less pressure on the health care system. He has no authority to open the border though, that falls under Federal jurisdiction.
Apparently Canada wants vaccine passports and the U.S. does not. It would be nice if it were a reciprocal deal, but does it have to be? I'm perfectly willing to provide my vax info to the Canadian government if it gets me into Canada. In any event I do think we're approaching the endgame here. I'm guessing the borders will open toward the end of summer. Of course I couldn't have been more wrong when this all started, so my prediction probably isn't worth much.
Thats the way their discussing now. Thats insentive to get your shots as well. No record no entry sounds fair. They need to crack down locally too. Mouth breather in the hardware store yesterday , no mask, talking loud blowing rona chunks erry where. wtf
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Someone I argued with said the vax hesitancey would be the same either side of the 49th,
I countered that while we also have the nut jobs bothe christian & just plain stupid it would appear there might be much less
also we don't have any republicans who will not vax for political reasons
yeah your last guess was a year ago, I am not going to say I told you so but to be fair how could you fathom that public health could trump money ?Quote:
Originally Posted by The AD
And that's your big probelm ... public health eh
At the time I didn't figure the U.S. could botch the response so badly compared to Canada. If both countries had been dealing with similar numbers of cases there wouldn't be nearly as compelling a reason to keep the border closed.Quote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
This is a bit dick waving art. as the comparisons in the last couple of months have had the US ahead , way ahead , on the vaccination front plus Canada's numbers in 3rd wave have not been good. Not as bad as US in 2nd wave but as bad as US currently. So dick waving comparison now. Note still way behind US in 2nd shots.
Thanks to the good sense of Canadians, we’re about to out-vaccinate the Americans
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opin...vaccinate-the/
We've been atleast trying to stem the tide. Its still depressing how many morans we have that think theyre the real scientists. It should be vaxx or dick punch, take your pick
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So you all are saying my July 6th fishing trip to Haida Gwaii is not looking likely?
which year ?Quote:
Originally Posted by californiagrown
USA didn't respond poorly they just didnt respond period but as i remember a year ago the feeling was the border will stay open cuz of money or maybe manifest destiny or sft but public health ... no way
so 600000 American died according to worldometer is about 1800 per million pop vs 25000 canadian dead which is about 650 per million pop
USA has since got on top of vaxing altho how many people take it is anybodies guess but when you have to pay people to protect themselves its not a good sgn
alberta is now the NA hotspot for Covid due to stupidity & money
I think Canada will end up with a higher % of the pop vaxed
By the weekend Canada will likely have a greater percentage of citizens with at least 1 dose of the vaccine. We're all but guaranteed to surpass the USA by the end of the summer if the uptake rates don't increase down there. Better start dragging uncle Cletus in to the Alabama vax clinic or this ain't never gonna go away.Quote:
Originally Posted by DougW
Canada today is @ 46.73% with at least 1 dose
USA today is @ 47.35% with at least 1 dose
Doses per 100 people in the past week:
Canada - 6.71
USA - 3.71
Note that just yesterday Ontario opened up vaccinations to all people 18+ in Ontario (14 million total pop) so the numbers in Canada are only going to go up exponentially. 2 Million Pfizer doses/week arriving now until at least the end of July. We'll be basically done by then. USA wins the sprint but the tortoise is going to win the marathon. Our dicks are blowing in the breeze.
Barring any supply issues. Things are going OK. But I can't believe they just turfed the Soldier in command of vaccination supply and logistics because of allegations of sexual misconduct while he was at Royal Military College in the early 2000s. This is fucked. Could they not let him finish his job before turning this into a cancel culture whore show. Fuck.Quote:
Originally Posted by paulster2626
30 yrs ago he acted like a teenager
Speaking of closed borders, first day in to Austria since summer. Easygoing and glad to be back in the Alpenrepublik🤘🤘deep pow, no one there... Prima
surprize surprize surprizeQuote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
It seems a bit unfair to go back to the 90's when the allegations about Justin were just forgotten after "we remember things differently". Though maybe this guy was a real ass at RMC? All the Mil College guys I knew came out a bit weird about women. Had nothing nice to say about the women they went through mil coll with other than a couple who did very well.
Except they didn’t turf him? He’s still the chief of staff or whatever, he’s just been removed from overseeing the vaccination efforts while an investigation takes place. Seems pretty reasonable to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by danmelon
If all the guy did was expose himself to someone in college 30 years ago, then he should be put back on the job if he wants, and that’s it.
Get accused of some shit
Stopped from doing your current job
Still remain on payroll
Investigation happens
Big nothingburger
Statement released “dude is cool did nothing wrong”
Back to work
Also things aren’t “going OK,” they’re going great! Look at the source data I shared. Canada is killing it, especially for a country with no domestic production. It’s honestly going surprisingly well.
Supply issues?? - those happened when Pfizer was tweaking their facilities to improve production capabilities. That’s long finished, and they’ve been slamming us with massive shipments ever since.
Canada’s got this. We’re in the home stretch and the people like you and I and leaders (except Ford and Kenney, the fucking morons) have done admirably.
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So sounding positive wife and I can go to the maritimes for a September vacation. And more importantly for me I can ski across the border next year. I have the card but hardly official. Just a couple of stickers and initials.
Canada locked down with zero fans at NHL games, and the USA having full capacity crowds, and a goddamn free for all in multiple states. Where at the bodies in the streets?
Here's hoping! And in the reverse direction as well. Would love to ski Down East next winter and hit up BMOM.Quote:
Originally Posted by cat in january
actualy after a great start last year they opened things up, shit got worse, last summer there were zero cases up narht so they closed things down again last winter, vax will be the great game changer other wise we would be having 4th and 5th wavesQuote:
Originally Posted by Asspen
who knows what happened down south but I herd it has been a godamn free for all, they hid the bodies in worldometer, almost 3 times as many dead percapita