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You can still go around, through the US.

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It might have just opened, but I5 was closed overnight as well south of Bellingham.

Both directions are reopened as of about 9am PST.

This is why the border needs to remain open at all times. We need vital traffic to continue flowing smoothly.

Not without a Covid test, no matter your vaccination status...

And you can’t drive without a driving test.

Terrible analogy. You're not required to take a road test every 48 hours to continue driving.

Edit - might be 72 hours. Regardless... I've done a road test once in my life...

If you are so hung about about taking a COVID test, I'm sure there is a 14 day quarantine option available to you.

I'm double vaxxed. I can enter the EU without a test. I can enter the US without a test. I can get an EU Green Pass without a test.

So why is Canada's policy such? They REQUIRE proof of vaccination to enter, AND a test? Why?

Edit - and yes I'm hung up on this. I don't want to pay $200+ dollars for a test I don't need. I got Covid in wave 1 before the first lockdown, I've done everything asked of us; masked, locked down, had to shut down multiple businesses, got vaccinated as soon as it was available to me, and they still want to make me take a useless test?

I can't decide what's worse; our mediocre government or the fact any citizens at all support this theatre...

You can't fly into the US without a test, even as a US citizen and even if you're fully vaccinated.

You can drive through the US without a test.

I drive quite a lot and haven’t been required to take a Covid test after several years of driving during Covid. Bottom line: if you’re crossing an international border, you’re gonna have to do some stuff.

Whooosh...

Not a big deal compared to actually being cut off with the current pressure on basic necessities.

Lots of people commute daily for work, in large part because Vancouver is no unaffordable. It's a massive headache, and that's why it's such big news.

Taking a PCR test every 2 days just to be able to get to/from work is ridiculous. Especially since only one side is requiring it.

You don't need a covid19 test now to drive into the USA. You do need to be fully vaccinated and to declare you have no symptoms. This is new with the border re-opening for non essential travel just about a week ago.

You do need a covid19 test (quick antigen test is OK) to fly from Canada to the US.

You do need a PCR covid19 test taken within the past 72 hours to re-enter canada by land or air, per CBSA requirements.

Yes, I know. Only Canada is requiring it. Nothing you said here refutes my statement. I'm talking about driving from Vancouver to another part of Canada. Because of the content of the article. To commute via the US, a test is required (because of Canada's current policy).

Clearly you don't know folks working in the industry; Trade and Transportation drivers have been and are exempt from testing requirements. My brother has been driving to and from the area around Winnipeg through North and South Dakota as a truck driver during the entire pandemic, and was vaccinated early by the US. (also, non-anecdotal source -> https://travel.gc.ca/travel-covid/travel-restrictions/exempt... )

And what does that have to do with anyone who doesn't fit into that one category?

The overall tone of the thread is about logistics in a port city that is the main port of entry to Canada. Individually, the testing requirements are very disruptive, but it's one less issue that may have impacted supply chains within the BC lower mainland, and an avenue to ship goods out, albeit more expensively.

This isn't (generally speaking) a thread about COVID restrictions, but if you want to sound off about that more, feel free, but it shouldn't be a shock that in a) a global pandemic, and b) a series of natural disasters, that no one really gives a fuck about how inconvenient travel has become for non-essential activities.

Fair enough. My responses might be slightly shaped by the fact I was going to drive to Vancouver next week to visit a friend and am flying to Europe in 2 weeks.

> that no one really gives a fuck about how inconvenient travel has become for non-essential activities

Plenty of people do. Hence why so many countries (literally the whole EU) are trying to facilitate travel.

I'm sorry, I didn't realize that the EU was impacted by a massive critical infrastructure failure induced by a natural disaster.

Like I said, this isn't a discussion or debate about COVID restrictions, and while it sucks that you might be temporarily inconvenienced in relation to your travel plans, as a person who lives and works in the lower mainland and has several friends and family members who are either homeless or temporarily stranded, temporary travel inconveniences rank somewhere between "oh well", and "could you please not, while we clean up?".

Vaccinated people can still catch, carry, and communicate COVID to others... and if you got vaccinated before the summer, your antibody levels are probably not as high as you think. Vaccination is not a binary thing, in terms of how it actually works.

If an unvaccinated person catches COVID from you, it doesn't matter whether or not you (the carrier) were vaccinated... The virus that ravages and possibly kills your subsequent victim is just as dangerous to the unvaccinated.

Yes, definitely going to catch Covid in your car, driving through the US to get around the flooded out highways...

Unless you are exempt, like truck drivers. https://travel.gc.ca/travel-covid/travel-restrictions/exempt...

The test is still cheaper than the car. So probably not a big issue

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