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On Monday, the United States and Canada announced that they would continue the seven-month closure of their border in an attempt to slow the spread of COVID-19.
The closure bans all nonessential travel, such as visits for recreation or tourism. Shipping of food, fuel, medicines and other vital goods is permitted, and citizens can return to their countries.
However, the shutdown has had a huge impact on Maine, where Canadian visitors usually spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year. In the first month of the closure, travel by car to the state at its 11 ports of entry plummeted 42%.
October 21, 2020
We have allowed the government to pick the winners and the losers during this whole ridiculous event. Are we going to start closing down every winter when the flu gets going? I have not heard of one person that died OF COVID but died WITH COVID. The people that have underlying conditions should take the necessary precautions to stay COVID free but the healthy population should be able to proceed in a normal manner. Keeping states buttoned up is dumb and needs to stop. We need to stop acting like sheep and stand up for our rights. Healthy people should be able to live without such ridiculous constraints. I agreed with closing off the US from outside travelers when this all started but travel should be fine between Canada and the US.
