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Planes, Buses, And COVID Tests: How The NHL Playoffs Are Spotlighting America's Dumb Border Rules 메이저사이트
The Toronto Maple Leafs are going southward subsequent to parting their initial two season finisher games against the Tampa Bay Lightning — yet the excursion is somewhat more confounded than you could anticipate.

Rather than flying from Toronto to Florida, the Leafs' players, mentors, and staff packed into transports and headed to the air terminal in Buffalo, New York, after their misfortune on Wednesday night, as indicated by TSN hockey journalist Darren Dreger.

Why the tourist detour? Per the ongoing standards overseeing cross-line travel into the United States, air explorers should show a negative COVID-19 test in something like 48 hours of entering the country. However, there's no trying expected to crash into the nation — so by transporting to Buffalo, the Leafs keep away from a pointless entanglement in their movements. They additionally stay away from the chance of a positive test that holds at least one players back from making the excursion by any means.

Toronto isn't the main National Hockey League (NHL) group doing this. Dreger reports that the Edmonton Oilers had a much more convoluted itinerary to drive to their impending season finisher games in Los Angeles. Not at all like Toronto, Edmonton isn't inside simple driving distance of an American air terminal, so the Oilers traveled to Vancouver, took transports to Seattle, then loaded up planes destined for L.A.

This has been normal practice for groups going this way and that across the boundary the entire year, Dreger notes.

It's likewise an ideal delineation of why the national government should drop the compulsory COVID testing prerequisite for travelers on flights entering the United States — or possibly drop it for departures from Canada and Mexico, the main spots from which explorers can enter via air and ground. There's no judicious avocation for exposing voyagers to various principles in light of the means used to enter the country. A traveler on a plane is not any more liable to convey COVID than somebody on a transport or in a vehicle.

To be sure, voyagers have been very much aware of this vast proviso for some time. The CBC ran a story in April of last year about the number of Canadians that were crossing the U.S. Line via land explicitly to avoid America's trying and quarantine rules.