That would be insane. You biggest trading partner being block and the only country you share a land border with will drag their economy to the ground. Banning fun-loving travel makes sense.
Banning the country that supplies most of your produce, electronics, cars, etc seems crazy just to prevent health care centers from being overrun. Cause thats really the issue. Everyone will get sick they just don't want people getting at once.
Chill out. Closing the border means not allowing passenger transport, not turning back freight/cargo. Even Europe keeps the trucks going through their closed borders.
Just to clarify - all of these travel restrictions apply to non-logistical/essential persons only and Canada still is emphasizing that goods movement won't be restricted - it's important too since Canada is a net importer of food.
Which, due to the closeness of the US/Canada relationship, makes it pretty pointless. Unless they do something involving disinfecting truck cabins then switching from US to Canadian drivers, at the border.
Every trucker who goes to Canada pops into a Tim Hortons before heading back to the US, no exceptions.
Don't let perfect be the enemy of better-than-nothing. Especially when we're talking about individual truckers vs. tens of thousands of close packed poor-environment-suffering groups of people in transit hubs.
Disallowing close-packed passenger travel while still allowing essential logistics _curbs_ even if it does not halt. Just because it's not the solution doesn't mean it's not worth doing.
I'm saying that, epidemiologically speaking, Canada and the US should be treated as one entity. This is probably the case for border regions of Mexico as well, though I see no reason to allow flights to or from D.F. at the moment.
If (it's probably when) we start to see domestic travel restrictions, curbing transport between states, that's a good time to restrict the border as well.
I believe a lot of those in particular aren't US originating, but if they are, probably not to a critical extent. Many of them Chinese, or maybe passing through the U.S, but not all that much more critical than leisure travel anyway.
Banning the country that supplies most of your produce, electronics, cars, etc seems crazy just to prevent health care centers from being overrun. Cause thats really the issue. Everyone will get sick they just don't want people getting at once.