Canada-U.S. Border

Yes so far the COVID test only applies to air travel according to the CDC PR

even if it gets extended to boats, as long as they allow a rapid test it s no big deal since these are readily available on the Bahamas at almost all marinas or POE



https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/...WD4ZbHS6uFCALCaOJdanCQycpjSWxtaXZNEO7KkQ83wVg

I had a friend last week sold his trailer in Florida so he had to go there to close deal so he flew Toronto to Detroit then to Florida which is expensive when we live so close to border we always fly out of Niagara Falls NY or Buffalo and are use to the
$ 69.00 flights. On his trip home he flew from Florida he flew to to Niagara Falls NY took a ten minute cab ride to Rainbow Bridge and walked across bridge to Canada and his wife picked him up.
I live very close to St Catharines airport and there is at least six trips a day taking Canadian's by helicopters to Buffalo airport three persons per trip with their cats and dogs for $ 1200.oo and their car is shipped by truck to Buffalo airport for $ 700.00
When they arrive at Buffalo twenty minutes latter their car is waiting for them.

If he thinks the Radisson is anything like a prison cell maybe Canada ought to move the cry baby to one so he understands the difference. Or better still a Covid ward. Maybe too he'd learn to follow procedure like everyone else. I have serious doubt that he did since others are make the crossing without incident.

Those are the rule you follow the rules.

Some people refuse to accept that we're in an unprecedented situation that has the potential to end the human race, and even 1 year into it we're still very much flying blind. More people are dying now that at any time since this pandemic began. Extraordinary measures are called for. The more some people try to get around the precautions the longer all of us will be dealing with it. I suspect that person would have a different view if he were allowed to travel like it's 1999 and he brought the disease home and killed those he loves. I've spoken with several medical professionals who said one thing that sticks with them is how many people are surprised to find that they're dying. They didn't think the danger was real. I can't imagine this as any sort of political ploy since it hardly helps anyone's political future to hurt their economies and inconvenience their constituents. Lots of hard decisions are being made every day.

Every day Canadian's are flying out of St Catharines airport twenty minute flight to Niagara Falls NY and Buffalo airports and heading to Florida
Today there was six helicopter flights

Canadians are supposed to winter in Hallandale and Hollywood....it's what Snow Birds from Canada do.

Well

I thought that was just the French Canadians.

Unless they moved NY yes we're up north. But I heard it more from people in Miami and out in the mid-west. In NY there's very few who don't understand the seriousness as we were dealing with it when the rest of the country considered it just a NY problem.

I’m just tugging your chain bro don’t be a Biden

In BC we have had an update from our health minister on a new Covid-19 variant that is reported to be more dangerous and more contagious. Currently they expect the response to this variant to extend as far out as April. So, don't be surprised if the border stays closed a while longer than you were told.

I'd never be anyone but me bro. All good.

An African and a Brazilian strain are showing up in the U.S. and they say current vaccines only lessen the severity. They don't keep you from getting it, and I'm also hearing that people who got it before are getting it again. So immunity doesn't seem like it's lasting. We'll get a better handle on it as vaccines get into arms but I fear we'll be dealing with this for a long time to come, including rolling in and out of local and national restrictions. I just heard from a friend in Germany and it's the same there, including the restrictions and the weariness. We often may feel alone but we're all together in a big leaky boat that needs a lot of patches.

Canada has extended it's cruise ban above the Arctic Circle until at least February 2022. This affects cruise ships carrying more than 100 passengers and private craft carrying more than 12 passengers. "Those who violate the passenger-vessel prohibition could be fined up to 1 million Canadian dollars, equivalent to about $779,000, imprisoned for up to 18 months, or both"
https://www.wsj.com/articles/canada-extends-cruise-ban-by-a-year-until-february-2022-11612470951