Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Canada Crossing the CA/US border

I suppose a good question to ask here is, "While I understand why you are upset, do you understand why these measures were put in place?"

I see more cabin fever this year than is he seasonable norm, which is also understandable.

I suppose a good question to ask here is, "While I understand why you are upset, do you understand why these measures were put in place?"

I see more cabin fever this year than is he seasonable norm, which is also understandable.

No I dont understand why these measures have been put in place. Its total insanity. The entire last 8-months are insanity and somewhere somehow its got to end. I work ambulance when Im not in the bush, and these lockdowns have had a huge impact on the elderly and vulnerable. I've seen older folks who are having a heart attack, and know they are having a heart attack, refuse to go to the hospital because they are afraid. I've seen others who dont care about the virus, they just want their life back. Overdoses are off the charts, so are suicides. Science has told us from day one that asymptomatic people cant and dont spread covid. Put a big period after that. The best immunologists in the world have said that over and over.
Our Territorial communist party said last Friday that even after the population has been vaccinated the restrictions will be "indefinite." Thats the exact word they used....now they are having trouble getting people to come in for the second shot. Why would anyone want to subject themselves to an experimental vaccine that they have already told us wont prevent us from getting covid and wont stop us from spreading it, and even after we take it the restrictions will go on "indefinitely'!! Total insanity.

Then you see what I saw tonight...an elderly patient in AFIB with a history of cardiac problems. The patient doesnt want to go in for the blood tests to confirm this because of what happened to her the last time. Now this patient is very well known in my community and good friends with everyone on my crew. We finally talk her in to going to the hospital, which is a two hour ambulance ride away. We get there late in the evening, take her into the ER and leave because its against regulations for us to stay. We have another two hour drive home. We just get home and an hour later she calls and needs a ride home because they are kicking her out of the hospital "because of covid risks." So since were not allowed to use the ambulance, my wife had to jump in our personal car and drive all the way back in to get this poor lady and bring her home. The only other option was to leave her on the street at -35. Another 4 hours of driving. In any sane world they would have kept her overnight for observation, but sanity left long ago.
I know lots of people in the EMS community, and this insanity is happening all over western Canada. Canadians better stop listening to CBC, get their heads out of their arse and pay attention to whats going on around them. Fed up?? You bet I am, and so are lots of others. The president of the local Chamber of Commerce was in the paper today talking about all the businesses that have gone bankrupt, and those that are just hanging on. You know what he's worried about?? He's worried those businesses will just give up, and he's right many will. No way you can survive with no end in sight. As long as the travel restrictions remain in place Canadian businesses will continue to slowly bleed out.

Unless I missed it the rules I read posted by FLYER01 don’t mention vaccination. I got my first one yesterday, second March 13th. Three out of four members of our party have been vaccinated. My brother in law is a hospital exec and son works at the PD/FD as a dispatcher. The last guy is 62 and expects to get it by April. Hopefully the hunting in NF is open. I don’t mind staying a few more days if that’s what they require.

In Northwestern Ontario we have had relatively few cases—it got into an old folks home in Thunder Bay so several elderly people died. That’s a tragedy but I know for a fact that deaths from drug overdoses is way up and probably have killed more people than Covid.
I looked up the numbers for the province of British Columbia and I must have made a mistake 1278 dead from Covid—1716 dead from drug overdose.—Those numbers can’t be right.
Beardmore in the winter can’t be more than 500 people and there is always a line up at the liquor store.

No your numbers are right. Some local news channels were talking about it Saturday and those numbers are the same they quoted.