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Given the destabilized and tenuous nature of the current supply chain, many people wondered if the Biden administration would actually be stupid enough to follow through with a truck driver vaccination mandate. The answer is yes. Please conduct yourselves accordingly.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) updated their guidance yesterday [LINK HERE] and put a hard date of tomorrow, January 22nd, for the trucker vaccine mandate at all border crossings and ferry terminals. Canada put the vaccine mandate into effect last week, January 15th.
[Dept. of Homeland Security] – [..] “Starting on January 22, 2022, the Department of Homeland Security will require that non-U.S. individuals entering the United States via land ports of entry or ferry terminals along our Northern and Southern borders be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and be prepared to show related proof of vaccination,” said Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas. “These updated travel requirements reflect the Biden-Harris Administration’s commitment to protecting public health while safely facilitating the cross-border trade and travel that is critical to our economy.”
These changes – which were first announced in October 2021 and made in consultation with the White House and several federal agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) – will align public health measures that govern land travel with those that govern incoming international air travel.
Non-U.S. individuals traveling to the United States via land ports of entry or ferry terminals, whether for essential or non-essential reasons, must:
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- verbally attest to their COVID-19 vaccination status;
- provide proof of a CDC-approved COVID-19 vaccination, as outlined on the CDC website;
- present a valid Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI)-compliant document, such as a valid passport, Trusted Traveler Program card, or Enhanced Tribal Card; and,
- be prepared to present any other relevant documents requested by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer during a border inspection.
COVID-19 testing is not required for entry via a land port of entry or ferry terminal.
Although these new vaccination requirements do not apply to U.S. citizens, Lawful Permanent Residents, or U.S. nationals, all travelers are reminded to bring a WHTI-compliant document when re-entering the United States. (more)
Approximately 50% of U.S. Truck Drivers are unvaccinated, they can no longer enter Canada. Starting tomorrow, Canadian and Mexican truck drivers must be vaccinated, or they will not be able to enter the U.S.
Land shipments of fresh fruits and vegetables into Canada are immediately impacted. Land shipments of fresh fruits and vegetables into the U.S. from Mexico are impacted starting tomorrow. In addition to agriculture, lumber and auto-parts are likely to face significant impact.
CANADA – […] Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, at a news conference in Calgary, urged the government to extend an exemption that had been in place for truckers since the start of the pandemic.
Kenney made his request on the same day the United States confirmed its own vaccine border mandate for truckers would start on Saturday. Canada’s has been in place since Jan. 15.
“Common sense tells us that we are at the peak of supply chain constraints across North America, around the world, huge inflation,” Kenney said.
This is not the moment “to lose potentially thousands of truckers on our roads, bringing groceries up from the US and who knows maybe (COVID) rapid test kits as well,” he said.
As many as 32,000, or 20 per cent, of the 160,000 Canadian and American cross-border truck drivers may be taken off the roads by the mandate, the Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) estimates. The industry was short some 18,000 drivers even before the mandate, CTA said. (read more)
The bottom line is both shortages and higher prices. Canada will feel it the worst; however, U.S. stores will feel it also. The inflation this will drive will be on top of existing price pressure. We have been warning since October, prices will increase, and shortages will be impactful.
The retail food stores have been reflecting the majority of the price increase from government COVID policy. This vaccine mandate will make those price increases more as transportation costs will increase again. However, the second route for fresh food delivery, “food away from home“, will suffer the majority of this price increase. Restaurants, hotels, cafeterias, bars and institutional settings (hospitals, nursing homes, etc.) will see significant increases in their food costs.
A perfect storm has been created by policy.
Energy policy has driven up oil, fuel, packaging and gas prices. Transportation costs have skyrocketed. Emission regulations have driven up port costs and delayed transportation fracturing the supply chain. Vaccine mandates have hit the manufacturing and processing sectors. Legislative policy and COVID spending have artificially inflated the economy. Monetary policy has devalued the dollar and driven even higher inflation.
A tenuous economy cannot take these self-inflicted wounds…. and it’s about to get worse.
Into this hurricane of stagflation, the fed is going to raise interest rates. The stock market could lose half its inflated value. The NASDAQ is already responding to the storm clouds. Employment is going to start getting really sketchy. Congress will eventually announce their remedy, which will be more spending – and the dollar gets worse.
All of this was avoidable.
None of this is caused by COVID-19.
All of this is caused by Joe Biden’s economic, financial, monetary and legislative policy.
The people behind Joe Biden are laughing….
…Biden has no idea.
I’ve heard of people dumb as a rock, but Brandon & Bumma are dumb as a whole sack of them.
Mexican truckers should just claim they are ‘migrants’ seeking asylum.
But the borders to illegals are wide open- unrestricted. Then they are sent in the dead of night to your town.
Anyone who thinks America will survive this intentional starvation of millions is fooling themselves.
Yup, give it about a week and the food riots will commence, starting in all “blue cities.”
I will wager that there will be home invasions of people looking to take our food stores and not so much any valuables. As Sundance has stated many times here, prepare your selves.
And I’ll be locked and loaded as always. As I was taught in my youth “be prepared “.
I have what I need and enough ammo to defend it.
It will start in the cities first. Country folk aren’t as tied to the grocery store as the city folk. This could get interesting quite quickly. 2nd Amendment at the ready people.
“mostly peacefull foraging for food”
My thoughts exactly!
And to make it even better, the illegals are not tested or required to get a vaccine. And now they can fly within the US by showing the TSA their deportation papers.
Or their arrest reports!
Think of all the produce that will rot because of this utterly ridiculous vaccine mandate, and all the money lost in waste and price increases, especially while the rest of the civilized world is backing off such mandates.
Democrats are creating another crisis in an election year. Makes you wonder.
Or is their purpose more sinister?
Totally illegal. The federal government can only ‘regulate’ interstate commerce. It has no authority to do anything else. This has nothing to do with immigration either.
This needs to go to the SCOTUS as well. Stop the communist biden regime.
SCOTUS is USELUS.
Of course it can regulate commerce coming from out of country. That is the commerce that it SHOULD be regulating.
The SCOTUS has been backing the regime. Kavanaugh has been an utter traitor and Barrett almost as much. Roberts is Bushes boy and he might have just as well been selected by Clinton. He sides with the leftists every time.
Merely a demonstration by Communists on how to effectively destroy a country and its economy.
“Outperforming”
….and yet border crossings by illegal aliens are free to escape the jab….and the ‘illegal’ system.
The ruling …and the explanation…..by the Texas court (re: ‘mandate’ for fed workers and contractors)….mimicking the Supreme OSHA decision……should apply to truckers as well. The Supremes screwed the country….again….by inventing yet another constitutional power by keeping the mandate in place for health care workers.
Absolutely insane……so it’s OK for a demented ruler to expose ONLY certain populations (e.g., health care workers) to an experimental treatment/medical procedure…something the supremes forgot to invoke…..since all gene therapies currently in use in the USA are ‘experimental’.
To the Border Patrol: FJB and let ’em cross.
To Greg Abbot: get off your a$$, use the national guard if you have to, and let ’em cross……you are in danger of getting primaries in March…..so now’s the time stop talking a good game and actually do something.
I’m voting for Allen West.
I like West but when he chaired the TX republican party, he did it as a temp job after moving to TX….and didn’t do much. I’d vote for him for congress. Looking into Don Huffines as well…….he does have a record in the TX legislature, pretty conservative, apparently never took salary, etc.
With the number of candidates running (9), I suspect there will be a runoff.
From the TX election code:
Sec. 172.003. MAJORITY VOTE REQUIRED. Except as otherwise provided by this code, to receive a political party’s nomination, a candidate in a primary election must receive a majority of the total number of votes received by all the candidates for the nomination.
Huffines is a waste of space. Not to mention, the only seat he has held, he bought. And they voted him out at first opportunity. West wasn’t in his position long. I would still give him another shot.
Let me get this straight – if you are a non-citizen, driving an 18 wheeler, and attempting to cross at a border checkpoint you will be turned away if you do not show proof of “experimental drug inoculation” BUT if you are a Haitian, or Angolan, or even a jihadist crossing the border you are placed on an airplane at taxpayer expense and relocated somewhere in the interior of the United States to then compete for the dwindling food supply caused by this ridiculous policy. We are F*#%ed and we stood by and let this happen – it’s on us. 81 million votes my ass. Biden and the uni-party to Hugo Chavez: “hold my beer”.
Solution to the immediate problem is all non-citizen truckers should claim asylum and they will be ushered right through the checkpoint.
Obama fully intends to destroy America to rebuild it as a Glorious Workers’ Paradise with himself in charge.
Well, he did say he wanted to fundamentally change America, so there’s that.
Went to aldi and Kroger yesterday. Supplies were good, except for saltine crackers or oyster crackers (soup time)! Nary a box of crackers to be found for the last week. And no frozen broccoli when they always have tons.
The perfect-storm also created by NAFTA and its successors. Many products are made in China, brought to Canada, and put into a different box in order to avoid tariffs. Those auto parts plants which were going to be moved back to America under PDJT have instead been built and expanded in Mexico to “reduce costs.” Now, how are those products going to get here?
And we still need to find a way to force every American worker to get “jabbed,” so that millions of workers can walk off the job to receive their government hand-outs as they sit locked in their home with nothing to eat and nothing to buy. And we also find a way to rob them of their right to vote, so that King Obama and Queen Hillary can return to their rightful places for their sixth, eighth, and twelfth terms in an office they can never again “lose.” “Oh, it will be glorious!!”
“Yes, we destroyed the country – but, by God, we rule it!” Now, what’s on the menu at tonight’s dinner party?
Just left a Publix in southern Palm Beach County. Frozen potato case empty. Took pics. Cream cheese gone with a sign that said “due to supply chain issues, customers are limited to two of each item in the cream cheese section.”
Canadian Truckers are bringing this Damned Country to its knees starting a FREEDOM convoy across the country. Once in Ottawa, they will circle downtown with 100’s of Rigs, Shut them off and sit. They have raised almost a Million to provide fuel and food for these Warriors. Eff Trudeau and Biden and that POS Obama.
All hail the truckers of Canada. I support them 100%.
The whole purpose of this is to starve the people to make them submit. Once they get the populace on the jab merry-go-round, they have achieved their goal of total control. There is nothing to be gained by punching holes in the arms of truckers with this snake oil serum that isn’t beneficial to anyone in any medical sense. The purpose of imposing mandates like this is to give legitimacy to fines which will serve the purpose of confiscating your property.
Just researching. It has been done many times before, but it has never been tried to citizens with a right to keep and bare arms. What could possess these elected officials to abdicate their checks and balances like this to a small tyranny?
That is a good question that I have not heard a good answer to; my guess is that it would come down to the love of money, power, sex or any combination of those. I’ve long time ago rejected the theory that they are motivated by their beliefs as it takes a degree of personal integrity to be so motivated and they are lacking in that.
But, please bring any illegals across the border and then transport them for free to the interior of the US. No Vax card needed. The government is a criminal enterprise. No doubt about it.
Why does Canada want to destroy the nation they rely on for defense?
First rule of prepping: Never tell anyone you prep.
So, what is this “prepping” of which you speak?
We are currently in a slow down in the economy because of this regimes punitive and no common sense policies. The stock market looks 6 months out, imho be prepared, markets have a lot of room to the downside. The feds (this regime) can not have this happen in a election year. so what is going to happen, the stock market crashing is the final straw in this regime, the powers to be can not allow this president to continue to wipe out our country’s wealth, look to see those swing states that stopped counting the 2020 election results, where hundred of thousands of illegal ballots with no chain of custody ( no idea who voter or where the ballot came from) came in and stole the election from the American voter. 22 will be the year that enough of those swing states decertify their elections, thus old frail demented bumbling fool biden will not have the electoral college numbers needed to remain president and he will be outed and Trump installed for 4 years. hopeful thinking that will save our great country. We will see.
I pray that you are right. I don’t think this country will make it with 3 more years of bumbling Joe stumbling around.
Obama’s fingerprints are all over this vaccine mandate for truckers. Most of what Biden is doing has no practical purpose other than to punish the American people and cripple the economy. Does anyone really seriously doubt the abject hate Obama has for this country and its people?
Rationing Begins in D.C.
@JackPosobiec
WHY??? WTF is wrong with our elected representatives that they don’t enmasse stop this nonsense
Food shortages and importing unvaxxed illegal aliens (and unvaxxed for many, many other diseases they are carrying with them) – what could possibly go wrong? Biden is INTENTIONALLY turning the US into a 3rd world country.
If science can’t be questioned it’s not science anymore. It’s propaganda. They want to rip on people for taking Ivermectin. I researched and saw the evidence on the internet. Research papers are on the internet for those who wants to see. Top respected world doctors are being under defamation by MSM and vaccine manufacturers. I won’t back down recommeding IVM.
… oh! …well!
How does one conduct ones’s self in the midst of a coup d’etat, which is what we are experiencing?
Here for ALL to see….The Textbook way of how to destroy an economy AND your Country….