Canadian Snowbird Future

wapiticountry wrote:

pianotuna wrote:

wapiticountry wrote:
If the US is such a threat to Canada, maybe the border should be closed permanently. I wonder which country has a greater percentage of their population cross the border in any given year. My bet is Canada would suffer more than the US.

And how often have you come to Canada? And that would be in January?

USA is causing its own suffering. Just why that is happening I'll leave to your fertile imagination.

There is no doubt in my mind, that far more Canadians snowbird to USA, than US citizens visit Canada. So USA may hurt financially from the lack of those folks not buying goods, food, and accommodation.

I do know that in a two week period in June, over 72000 Americans excluding Truckers, crossed the border going North. There must have been a lot of folks returning to Alaska......or perhaps the visitors were telling porkies to the border officials?

BTW I'm not anti American. But I'm definitely anti Covid 19. Or perhaps Covid 19 and the 137,572 folks who have died in USA, are all part of a hoax?

I am just saying if the US is so terrible and such a threat to Canadians and their health, just shut the border until there is zero cases of COVID in the US. If it gets cold in the winter, tough. If a Canadian owns a winter home or needs to cross the border to visit relatives, buy supplies or conduct business, too bad. Whinning and complaining that a country is not doing what they should to protect their residents and visitors then just tossing those concerns aside and traveling to that country because it got cold outside is pretty much the definition of hypocritical behavior. If you have convictions, you should stick by them regardless of the weather.

I think you are taking this wrong and turning it personal. Canadians don’t think the USA or Americans are terrible. Canadians look at the USA as a foreign country experiencing a deadly pandemic with a complete leadership vacuum and completely ineffective methods combatting it. As well it is in the midst of political upheaval with ongoing race and class riots. The president re-tweeted multiple times a video where a supporter says “the only good democrat is a dead democrat” suggesting he would like to see 50 percent of the electorate dead. This is concerning for the entire world watching the failure of what was once the leader of the free world. Canadians are simply discussing serious concerns about travelling in a politically unstable country with an unchecked health pandemic. Look at it through the eyes of the rest of the world and you’ll see the concern. More specifically this is pertinent to this RV forum and the Canadians who are members as difficult decisions need to be made on future plans. If you don’t want to see this discussed then tune out. But this is important.