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Originally Posted by pastarocket
Breaking news from Turd:
Your thoughts on this decision?
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I'd say the decision is both political and based on common sense, although again, it is a major reversal from his own recent stance. I vividly remember listening to him on the radio (maybe yesterday?) saying that Canada is going to make that decision on our own time and on our own terms -- or something to those effects, and we (Canada) will approach this decision slowly and based on science blah blah blah.
Our current vaccination rates seem to be just shy of 70% for 1st dose, and under 44% fully vaccinated. The risks for allowing fully vaccinated US citizens and PR to come should be reasonably low, assuming that people are not falsifying their vaccination documents. In particular, shouldn't affect BC or Ontario's COVID situation too much since the vaccination numbers for both provinces are very solid. But for the rest of Canada, I am not so sure how good an idea this is. It seems a bit early for places outside of BC / ON where the vaccination rates are lower.
Internationally, I am far less convinced that we should open up by Sept as suggested by Trudeau. I'd at least have more faith in the US and in Americans in not falsifying their vaccination records. But with countries beyond the US, there are a LOT of bad apples out there that I wouldn't trust.