Border closings

JaxDad wrote:
When the destination is a 3, 4, 5 or more day drive from the border it’s not nearly so easy to do or enforce.

....Vermont (and several other States) has/have a very well thought-out visitor entry plan. If transiting through Vermont, and your vehicle is not "plated" with a Vermont license plate (a visitor and resident set of criteria; see link below), you have a set amount of hours to exit the State (this allows for re-fueling). Additionally, Vermont has a dynamically updated "infection statistic" for every County from North Carolina to Maine (and a few States West of), and if you originate from any County that had an infection stat below a certain threshold, you and your passengers could come into Vermont and actually remain for non-discretionary travel without quarantine. And in addition to that, every Vermont hotel, B & B, and all overnighting businesses have Vermont State covid forms that are filled out (Certificate of Compliance) by the overnighting facility staff (in the case of a customer either coming in needing quarantine at the hotel, or, non quarantine situation, the overnighting facility needs to report the visitor and status).

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I can see this Vermont system working for any Canadian (and, US) snowbird traveling south (across numerous States), heading for the 4 traditional snowbirding States. So, if you are traveling from say Quebec to Florida, the US CBP would direct incoming Canadian snowbirds heading to Florida to take the "shortest route" (ie. the I-95). This would mean traversing (I think?) 11 States. It would take us 2 overnights (1 in Maryland; 1 in North Carolina). So, if hotels are used (because it may be too cold to sleep in the RV), on arrival, the hotel would register the traveling party: in and out time, and geographical origin. Also, any State police cruiser (and overpass scanners) on the I-95 (and every Interstate) would be auto-scanning (foreign and, out-of-state) license plates, that communicate with US CBP and cross-State data.