Before the outbreak, the U.S. government was too optimistic about the virus and missed the best time to close the border. When the epidemic has spread at home, the United States has taken corresponding measures. On March 21, the United States announced the closure of its borders with Canada and Mexico . Given the current situation in the United States, the US government has also decided to delay the lifting of the border for a while. On August 14, the U.S. government said that the date of the border with Mexico and Canada was set to September 21.
Canada and Mexico were deeply relieved about this news. After all, I am surrounded by a "drug nest" and life is not easy for both countries. The number of confirmed cases in the United States has exceeded 5 million, while Mexico has accumulated more than 500,000 confirmed cases, and Canada has exceeded 120,000.
If the United States opens its borders at this time, these two countries will inevitably experience an out-of-control epidemic situation. Among them, Canadians are becoming more and more ill-touched in their attitude towards Americans.
American Broadcasting Corporation pointed out in the report that Canadians are now very worried about the cross-border transmission of the virus, and Canadians surprisingly hate seeing Americans. A Canadian expert also revealed that if the border is truly agreed to open, it may lead to serious consequences of a second outbreak in Canada, so it is necessary to limit travelers from the United States indefinitely.
According to data provided by the Canadian border management department, before the epidemic, an average of 300,000 people traveled to and from the US-Canada border every day. Since the border closure in March, non-commercial interpersonal communication has decreased by 95%, and travelers have been banned.
However, cross-border workers like material transportation and some core industries are still transiting. Many Americans even came up with ways to illegally cross the border.
In the latest poll, more than 80% of Canadians are very supportive of closing the border until at least the end of this year. In order to prevent Americans from entering illegally, Canadians also fought with Americans.
In Canadian , Alberta , many local businesses spontaneously organize personnel to check cars in parking lots. As long as cars with American license plates are found, they will immediately report to the local government. The local government will send these Americans back to the United States after investigation. Many Canadians have spontaneously organized many car smashing campaigns, using key scraping or car smashing to destroy cars with American license plates. Many people even stopped cars with American license plates in the middle of the road and asked them to leave Canada as soon as possible.
Canadians nowadays hate seeing cars with American license plates. But many Canadian locals have also suffered.
For this phenomenon, British Columbia governor also advised locals that if the car at home has a US license, they can change it or take public transportation.
On August 12, many Americans also came to the US-Canadian border in Michigan to participate in the annual rafting of the St. Clair River. Canada warned that if Americans crossed the border, they would be severely punished even if they did unintentional actions. Canada now does not welcome Americans.
BBC pointed out in the report that due to the epidemic in the United States, Canadians' attitude towards the United States has become increasingly negative, and local people are even more unfriendly to Americans who come to Canada to take refuge. Under the pressure of public opinion, the Canadian government can only continue to maintain a border blockade, and even tightened the transit restrictions for Americans to travel to and from Alaska through Canada.
These measures have actually caused very serious losses to Canada's services and tourism industry, but Chandra, professor of economics at the University of Toronto, said: This is very worth it. The price of closing a Niagara Falls is much lower than closing the city of Toronto, .
Because of this, Canada has expressed its attitude from the people to the government and refused Americans to enter the country. Mexico, also a neighbor of the United States, has not had a good life. Although Trump has specially built a border wall and introduced a stricter entry and exit policy, it still cannot stop Americans from flocking to Mexico.
In fact, the reason is very simple. The current public health system in the United States has almost collapsed. Even if it is infected with the new coronavirus, there is no medical means to treat it. Although Mexico's technological level is not as good as that of the United States, it can at least survive. Moreover, prices in the United States are soaring now, and ordinary Americans are almost out of food, let alone those low-income families. Mexico has a lower consumption level and lower prices than the United States, so it will be easier for them to live in Mexico. But because of this, the epidemic in Mexico has also begun to soar.
