Possible Canada boarder opening mid August

For the past month watching the briefings from the Prime Minister, the key he stressed out before committing to any easing of restrictions upon reopening "Canada's" border to non essential visitors was meeting Canada's goal upon a 80 % minimum of the population receiving first dose vaccination.

Canada is committed to achieving this goal before any kind of restrictions are to be potentially lifted.

Another positive factor of why I think they are actually going to ease the border restrictions to an extent this time is how well the United States population got immunized in a short period of time and obtained some form of control by decreasing COVID cases (now over 57% of the population receiving first dose at this time of posting) that rendered in a significant drop in added positive cases, and a substantial drop in hospitalizations and deaths within a first vaccine distribution of a 6 month period (so far).

Both Canada and the United States total populations have achieved the 48% fully vaccinated threshold mark at this time of posting. as I fully understood why Canada had taken this pandemic more seriously and imposed their border restrictions for so long :

1 - The United States was leading the world by a landslide in cases, hospitalizations and deaths that spiraled out of control by not imposing enough travel restrictions and isolation at the time last year

2 - While Canada itself is surrounded by two oceans and the United States, the two oceans were not going to be the source of potential increase in COVID cases

Now granted that the new more contagious variants are now the dominant strains upon these current cases and are on the increase, however upon speaking for the United States -

It is still by far 3.5 times lower in positive COVID cases than this time last year without a vaccine -

96% of TODAY'S current COVID related hospitalizations in the United States are from NON vaccinated individuals -

While over 99.5% of all COVID related deaths in the United States in the past 90 days are from NON vaccinated individuals (while roughly 1 in 10 vaccinated individuals that were actually hospitalized had died - all had some form of underlying issue) -


Time will tell in the coming weeks as cases increase, whether these current numbers will sustain or not....as so far it has been proven that the overwhelming majority of people that have been vaccinated will not see a hospital visit should they be exposed to COVID related symptoms.

I waited at least the first 90 days of the vaccine distribution phase to see all my friends and colleagues after being administered with the vaccine as they all had no side effects (Phizer and Moderna)....

I also timed it when I finally committed to take the vaccine in late April and mid May if there was going to be any sort of vacation for me - it would be within late summer or fall as I am only allowed to take time off then or during winter, as there is no way I am utilizing my camper in the winter months either, and knowing pretty much now for anyone to travel abroad to other countries - the new norm now will be a full COVID vaccination mandate of sorts.

I will be in Canada if they do lift the restrictions for non essential personnel as early as next month - my only dilemma would be this :

Back in late April when I got my first dose, the state of Alaska ran the program and was efficient and all and gotten the sticker of proof attached to the card with no glitches and all....

In mid May for the second dose - nothing was efficient, took four times the time to process everything with only 10% of people compared to the state running the program with over 90% of people more getting vaccinated that day with my first dose...

Furthermore, it just so happen to be unlucky that my second dose scheduled day was the very first day a contractor took over the whole operation (the nurse told me as she was just as frustrated) as the state of Alaska dropped the vaccination program like a smoking gun committed in a crime on short notice, and the nurse had hand written -rather scribbled in the box on the CDC card stating the second dose that no one can read or decipher of what it says (looks fake as plastic fruit)....I requested some additional CLEAR PROOF as they told me no stickers were provided for proof like my first dose has.

They told me they had no printers to give me any copy of proof for my second dose and tried to blow me off by emailing their company and open a account blah blah blah, until I screamed for a supervisor as I started going postal (a wonder they didn't call the cops to escort me out) which she directed me to drive all the way to the airport (5 miles) to obtain my copy of proof.... So later that night I arrive at the airport and the supervisor couldn't believe I showed up at 1130pm, got a proof of vaccination copy from them as she stated sorry for the inconvenience as they took over the operation on short notice and that they had to short staff the airport personnel by 50% to help out at the vaccination facility in Fairbanks....

Here's the kicker - after reading my proof of second shot the second time after leaving the airport - I realized they printed on the document that I received my FIRST SHOT - so I have proof of receiving two first dose shots as it stands.... lucky I took pictures at the facility, grabbed every souvenir like cartoon stickers stating I was vaccinated, and if this contractor does not correct the information for the second dose proof, hopefully by submitting my additional proof entering Canada that they will accept the proof with an explanation on the situation at hand should they lift the border restriction.

If the current case numbers increase substantially with vaccinated individuals at this point, I am sure Canada will continue to impose restrictions.