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The issue is not sealing off the border entirely, but trying to reduce non-essential travel while keeping supply chains and essential commuter workers flowing.
by eigenvector 7y ago
The issue is not sealing off the border entirely, but trying to reduce non-essential travel while keeping supply chains and essential commuter workers flowing. A person who's no longer able to make their weekly milk run to Bellingham, WA from Surrey, BC isn't going to try hiking across the border, but it'd be best if they could be persuaded to stop travel voluntarily without incurring the costs to essential traffic that come from closing border crossings.
- blaser-waffle 7y ago+1 This isn't a police action to prevent dirty immigrants from getting across the border, it's a quarantine measure. 99% of those travelers aren't going to row across a lake to get into Canada; if they are chances are they're doing something sketchy and would have been rowing across lakes anyway regardless of the enforcement regime. More importantly disease transmission is one of herds and numbers -- a tiny handful getting across isn't a huge deal, it's the influx coming through ports and via plane.