The COVID-19 pandemic

[danbrotherston]

How about the rest of the pandemic.

It doesn’t need to be completely closed. How about all people coming into the country are tested at the border. Positive test means they go back. Negative means they spend 2 weeks in quarantine, with random inspections to make sure they are in their hotel room (I’m OK with not literally keeping them locked in a re-purposed jail).

I actually feel there should be a way to cross the border. But I think it needs to be a way that ensures there is no cross-border transmission, something like the above. And this needs to continue until the USA has a lower or equal per capita case rate to Canada.

One other concern: unofficial crossings are never closed. What are we doing about that?

I don't trust Americans to play by the rules. They have already been caught lying to illegally enter the country in Alberta. It would take a ton of resources to check on every border crosser, resources that would be better spent on almost anything else.