There are entire checkpoints, and the border is a huge ditch anywhere there isnt a checkpoint.
The checkpoints are manned by CBSA and they do have the authority to arrest you and they do stop searches and in the rural areas they literally have nothing better to do.
Good luck driving across the 49th illegally without a really versatile vehicle.
In 2020, I had planned a roap trip across parts of Canada. When Covid started, I pushed it out a year. Still issues in 2021, so I figured I'd hope for next year. Well, now it seems it is cancelled indefinitely. They probably don't realize that as long as they have these measures in place, they will also be losing much tourism.
It kills me. One of my biggest bucket list items is taking a roadtrip through Canada to Alaska. The more things keep happening, the more it seems that I will never be able to cross this off my list.
It seems unlikely that a measure like this would ever be revoked, only ever expanded. With mask wearing, that was something people had to actively do at any given moment, so people do eventually get sick enough to fight back. But flashing a card along with your ID before boarding a plane? Or having it fully integrated digitally? Neither pose any inconvenience to enough people to muster up support to have it revoked.
Our only hope is accelerationism, I believe. In particular: more and more booster shots. If a person is required to get multiple booster shots yearly, that can pose a significant enough inconvenience for "normal" people to get this revoked.
I truly hope so because that will inconvenience people enough to stop this madness.
Getting invasively searched every time you fly a plane doesn't inconvenience people enough to muster support to actually have a movement to make it normal again, because most people only travel once or twice a year, and it's only a few minutes of inconvenience. Wearing a mask, though, affects you all day every day. Flashing a vaccine card to fly will be nothing, getting the vaccine once a year will be nothing, but getting a monthly vaccine will be inconvenient enough for the masses to get things back to normal.
The drive to Stewart, BC (which is the southernmost Alaska crossing IIRC) isn't that great of a drive IMO, unless you detour greatly through the Canadian Rockies.
The drive from Vancouver to Prince George and then Prince George to Stewart, BC isn't really all that special and contains a lot of boring bush.
Cache Creek about halfway to Prince George is kind of neat. It might not be impressive to an American though since its allure is that it looks like arid desert hills like a Western set in the Canadian wilderness.
Smithers, BC is a neat little town, halfway between Prince George and the Alaska border. It's mostly a ski destination though, so less cool in the summer.
I've only been as far north as Dawson Creek, but it was similarly bush/oil country.
There's lots of other scenic things in BC and Alberta, but none of them are really on the shortest path to Alaska, which is still pretty damn long.
The Haida Gwaii islands are worth a detour. But they are hard to access and not really on the way to anything.
I refuse to use the "new" names for any of these places...
But yeah, otherwise, that sounds like... The reality of roadtrips in Aus, too. People have massive expectations of what they'll be like, but in reality... Most places away from the coast are pretty... Same-y.
Not completely dull, but same-y. And full of mining towns, which is our equivalent of your tar sands and the like, lol...
Admittedly, there's no national borders to cross, so... There's that, I guess. Though it feels like, right now... Each of the states is acting like a separate country, with all the bullshit that brings, including ramping up "nationalistic"/parochial rhetoric against "out of staters"... So that's... Fun. :-/
It's less about the drive and more about the story. I had intention to map out a longer, more scenic drive, with stops on the way and on the way back. I'm coming from the Midwest.
In particular, there is a particular car I want to take the trip in. It's a rarity.
I used to visit Canada at least once a year to visit family. It's sort of odd knowing that I'll most likely never set foot in that country ever again but I honestly don't give a shit. No more dealing with the border crossing!
Your not missing much.
Not sure why people make such a big deal of Canada. I live here. Its fucking boring, no culture, no heritage, no values. ITS FUCKING EMPTY.
Oh and its Expensive, and cold.
That's how you know its not about a virus and all about absolute compliance. If anything, testing would be more meaningful since "vaccinated" people still get the virus
There's essentially no way out.
Land border is closed to Canadians on the US side.
Can't board a plane unless vaxxed.
Which countries would take you anyway if you could board a plane?
Do what the Haitians do and just walk across
Boat? Or if you're a millionaire get a private jet and COVID rules don't apply to you.
I used to think there was beauty and simplicity in being a commoner. Now I see it's only a curse.
The biggest lie ever told is that money doesn't buy happiness.
How about "You can trust the government. They are only doing what is right."
I think that's a bigger lie. And the media fucking LOVES that one...
its additional money that doesnt do that.
Kamala will care if you're white.
There are entire checkpoints, and the border is a huge ditch anywhere there isnt a checkpoint.
The checkpoints are manned by CBSA and they do have the authority to arrest you and they do stop searches and in the rural areas they literally have nothing better to do.
Good luck driving across the 49th illegally without a really versatile vehicle.
The whole western world is now West Berlin but worse. They are keeping you in, but continuing to let unfiltered migrants in as well.
In 2020, I had planned a roap trip across parts of Canada. When Covid started, I pushed it out a year. Still issues in 2021, so I figured I'd hope for next year. Well, now it seems it is cancelled indefinitely. They probably don't realize that as long as they have these measures in place, they will also be losing much tourism.
I wonder how many Canucks want their vote back.
I'm convinced people like Trudeau and Merkel never get voted out because it's a con game
It kills me. One of my biggest bucket list items is taking a roadtrip through Canada to Alaska. The more things keep happening, the more it seems that I will never be able to cross this off my list.
It seems unlikely that a measure like this would ever be revoked, only ever expanded. With mask wearing, that was something people had to actively do at any given moment, so people do eventually get sick enough to fight back. But flashing a card along with your ID before boarding a plane? Or having it fully integrated digitally? Neither pose any inconvenience to enough people to muster up support to have it revoked.
Our only hope is accelerationism, I believe. In particular: more and more booster shots. If a person is required to get multiple booster shots yearly, that can pose a significant enough inconvenience for "normal" people to get this revoked.
Canada is an incredibly beautiful country which is, regrettably, full of morons.
Yep.
Gotta take your Pfizermectin twice daily or you die.
And by die, I mean the government's going to come in their nice bright vans.
I truly hope so because that will inconvenience people enough to stop this madness.
Getting invasively searched every time you fly a plane doesn't inconvenience people enough to muster support to actually have a movement to make it normal again, because most people only travel once or twice a year, and it's only a few minutes of inconvenience. Wearing a mask, though, affects you all day every day. Flashing a vaccine card to fly will be nothing, getting the vaccine once a year will be nothing, but getting a monthly vaccine will be inconvenient enough for the masses to get things back to normal.
The drive to Stewart, BC (which is the southernmost Alaska crossing IIRC) isn't that great of a drive IMO, unless you detour greatly through the Canadian Rockies.
The drive from Vancouver to Prince George and then Prince George to Stewart, BC isn't really all that special and contains a lot of boring bush.
Cache Creek about halfway to Prince George is kind of neat. It might not be impressive to an American though since its allure is that it looks like arid desert hills like a Western set in the Canadian wilderness.
Smithers, BC is a neat little town, halfway between Prince George and the Alaska border. It's mostly a ski destination though, so less cool in the summer.
I've only been as far north as Dawson Creek, but it was similarly bush/oil country.
There's lots of other scenic things in BC and Alberta, but none of them are really on the shortest path to Alaska, which is still pretty damn long.
The Haida Gwaii islands are worth a detour. But they are hard to access and not really on the way to anything.
*Queen Charlotte Islands, no?
I refuse to use the "new" names for any of these places...
But yeah, otherwise, that sounds like... The reality of roadtrips in Aus, too. People have massive expectations of what they'll be like, but in reality... Most places away from the coast are pretty... Same-y.
Not completely dull, but same-y. And full of mining towns, which is our equivalent of your tar sands and the like, lol...
Admittedly, there's no national borders to cross, so... There's that, I guess. Though it feels like, right now... Each of the states is acting like a separate country, with all the bullshit that brings, including ramping up "nationalistic"/parochial rhetoric against "out of staters"... So that's... Fun. :-/
My lasting memories of Australian highways was all of the "Fatigue kills" signage.
"Don't fall asleep and kill yourself, dummy!", lol
It's funny because the same could definitely be said of boring, long Canadian highways, but there's no similar PSA preachiness.
Maybe it's because for one half of the year it's ice on the road that kills you and for the other half, it's smashing into moose and deer.
It's less about the drive and more about the story. I had intention to map out a longer, more scenic drive, with stops on the way and on the way back. I'm coming from the Midwest.
In particular, there is a particular car I want to take the trip in. It's a rarity.
Ah gotcha.
If you are coming from the east, you miss out on a lot of the north-south monotony that I mentioned.
is it the banks supporting this one?
I'm not sure I understand the question. I'm just saying restricting people in this way will prevent tourism.
reaching levels of virtue signaling never seen before.
32% x 62% = 19.84%
I used to visit Canada at least once a year to visit family. It's sort of odd knowing that I'll most likely never set foot in that country ever again but I honestly don't give a shit. No more dealing with the border crossing!
Your not missing much. Not sure why people make such a big deal of Canada. I live here. Its fucking boring, no culture, no heritage, no values. ITS FUCKING EMPTY. Oh and its Expensive, and cold.
The land is getting vaccinated? I don't think you understand how vaccines work.
32%? do they have ranked choice voting up there??
I saw the video, he went out of his way to say that there will be no option to test out.
That's how you know its not about a virus and all about absolute compliance. If anything, testing would be more meaningful since "vaccinated" people still get the virus