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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Close the damn borders to whom?

Close the damn borders to whom? Just heard on the CBC that the state of Washington with a population one and a half times the size of B.C. had vaccinated the same number of their citizens as all of Canada.
Michael Blaxland
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With lagging vaccination rates in Canada, a letter writer wonders if other countries will close borders to us during the coronavirus pandemic, not the other way around.www.gettyimages.ca

Close the damn borders to whom? 

Just heard on the CBC that the state of Washington with a population one and a half times the size of B.C. had vaccinated the same number of their citizens as all of Canada. 

So in a few months of the spread of new COVID strains, and no vaccine, it will be the Americans saying, “Close the damn borders” to keep the U.S. safe from those COVID-ravaged Canucks!  

Returning Canadian snowbirds and American Epic Pass holders will be vaccinated and it looks like unable to spread COVID-19 to us socially distancing locals.

The shoe may be on the other foot?

Michael Blaxland // Whistler