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Yeah, I appreciate your comment and agree with you. They weighed the options and clearly though covid was easier to deal with than shut borders. For a time, I r
by xeromal 6y ago
Yeah, I appreciate your comment and agree with you. They weighed the options and clearly though covid was easier to deal with than shut borders. For a time, I remember being reported or downvoted for even suggesting the economic impacts of a true, complete shutdown. I still don't know what the better strategy was.
- ghaff 6y agoEspecially with Canada, shutting the border would have been untenable in all probability, perhaps to the degree of creating real food issues. Certainly the two countries are very intertwined economically. Air travel could have been shutdown for a bit, at least other than to let Americans get back home. But no way it would ever have been sealed for months.
- jdavis703 6y agoThey could have allowed food and medical shipments through while banning any other land trade.
- ghaff 6y agoThey could have done a lot of things but mostly IMO keeping the border open for commercial travel was almost certainly the right decision, especially given that most of Canada is close to the US border anyway. They're not really that distinct geographically.