Canada Closed until US Gets Covid 19 Under Control

[paulster2626]

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?

We're generally a little more conservative when it comes to not giving any fucks about other people's lives up here. Sorry!

[Peruvian]

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.

I got mine laminated. Much more offishaler.

[m2711c]

Yer a little quick on the draw there partner…..How are you gonna write down the booster shot that you’re going to be required to get?

[liv2ski]

Yer a little quick on the draw there partner…..How are you gonna write down the booster shot that you’re going to be required to get?

Yup, they told me not to laminate it for that reason. As much as I would love to visit BC, I am hoping the border stays closed until the end of Sept so I have an excuse to miss my step moms 90th cake day. Sister is bugging me to attend and I would rather not.

[XXX-er]

So you all are saying my July 6th fishing trip to Haida Gwaii is not looking likely?

If i was an American and I wanted to go fishing I would look at AK, I talked to a guy who runs seaplanes at the lake, they are open and ready for bidness but there is none, he said AK was open

[BCMtnHound]

I know it's selfish of me, but I have been enjoying the opportunity to reserve a spot in a provincial campground without all the travel bots snapping them up 2sec after the system permits reservations. The lack of tourists in oversized rental motorhomes driving the highway during the TransMtn pipeline construction makes the delays almost manageable. A few more alberta sledders this past winter, and a few more city folk from Kamloops and the Okanagan were in the local backcountry, but otherwise it has been so very peaceful. No US recreational fishermen overstaying their welcome at the campsites on the west coast of Van Is last year, and will continue this season.

But all good things eventually come to an end. It'll be interesting to see what happens this upcoming fall and winter and how all the pent up demand will be realized.

[The AD]

Yer a little quick on the draw there partner…..How are you gonna write down the booster shot that you’re going to be required to get?

Grease pencil sales are due to go up next year, methinks.

[XXX-er]

The local lodges will need the border to open up before trying to operate, 70% of traffic thru the lodges is foreign either American or Yurp so they can't make $ on Canadian bookings and the Covid situation has been changing so they aren't ready, hell the borders are still closed and case rates still have to come way down

[teamdirt]

Put up a wall!!

[XXX-er]

ya so how did that go for Trump ?

[yeahman]

NYT basically declared the pandemic over in the U.S. in their email this morning.

[XXX-er]

when a country that has killed >600000 people basicly issues a press release, that is important

[The AD]

NYT basically declared the pandemic over in the U.S. in their email this morning.

In the United States, there is now an excellent chance that the retreat is permanent. Victory over Covid has not yet arrived, but it is growing close. After almost a year and a half of sickness, death, grieving and isolation, the progress is cause for genuine joy.
More than 60 percent of American adults have received at least one vaccine shot, and the share is growing by about two percentage points per week. Among unvaccinated people, a substantial number have already had Covid and therefore have some natural immunity. “The virus is running out of places to be communicable,” Andy Slavitt, one of President Biden’s top Covid advisers, told me.

The share of Covid tests coming back positive has fallen below 3 percent for the first time since widespread testing began, and the number of hospitalized patients has fallen to the lowest point in 11 months, Dr. Eric Topol of the Scripps Research Translational Institute noted. For the first time since March 5 of last year, San Francisco General Hospital yesterday had no Covid patients — “a truly momentous day,” Dr. Vivek Jain said.

There are still important caveats. Covid remains especially dangerous in communities with low vaccination rates, as Slavitt noted, including much of the Southeast; these communities may suffer through future outbreaks. And about 600 Americans continue to die from the disease every day.

But the sharp decline in cases over the past month virtually guarantees that deaths will fall over the next month. The pandemic appears to be in an exponential-decay phase, as this helpful Times essay by Zoë McLaren explains. “Every case of Covid-19 that is prevented cuts off transmission chains, which prevents many more cases down the line,” she writes.
This isn’t merely a theoretical prediction. In Britain, one of the few countries to have given a shot to a greater share of the population than the U.S., deaths are down more than 99 percent from their peak.

I think there is good reason to be optimistic. Not sure I'd go so far as to declare victory quite yet...

[muted reborn]

NYT basically declared the pandemic over in the U.S. in their email this morning.

No they didn't.

[toast2266]

Can't believe Biden hasn't given a victorious speech under a "Mission Accomplished" banner yet.