Hey, speaking of the border opening up (or not....) I want to share a story:
Back on December 6, 1917 a French ammunition ship bound for Europe blew up in the harbor in Halifax, Nova Scotia, after striking another ship in the narrows. 1,500 homes were completely destroyed (most of the area of North Halifax), 2,000 people were killed and over 9,000 injured. Word quickly reached Boston where a large medical and supply train was assembled at lightning speed, complete with a large staff of Boston doctors, nurses and battlefield-style medical supplies.
Because of the threat of snow in the Maritimes, the train was fronted by a special snow-plow engine followed by four more drive engines and included a number of cars of medical personnel and many cars of supplies. It sped to Halifax to help in whatever way they could, arriving literally the next day and the first train to arrive from the Northeast USA. Many lives were saved by this effort as the local and regional hospitals were totally overwhelmed with patients so the trains dispatched to help were converted into "mobile hospitals" and staffed with the arriving medical personnel.
Halifax has never forgotten this effort and for many years, now, has presented Boston with the Christmas gift of a 40' - 50' tall Canadian Balsam Evergreen as Boston's lighted Christmas tree on Boston Common. It is a big deal in Nova Scotia for a farmer to have their tree selected for this honor (the farmers are always invited to the celebration, too) and this year was only a little different. The border is closed between our two countries for road traffic and the tree traditionally comes to Boston via truck, complete with the flag of Nova Scotia on both sides.
Apparently neither side, Halifax nor Boston, wanted to deal with their respective national governments for a transport waiver (and Boston is not one of Trump's favorite cities). It's simply too big to fit into an aircraft to fly it over, but someone found that there is still some container ship traffic allowed between our countries, so the tree was carefully bound in netting and slings and lowered into an open-topped shipping container, loaded onto a Finnish (I believe) container ship who's next port was Boston and arrived the next day. It was erected on Boston Common and we had our annual (virtual) tree lighting ceremony just last evening, all broadcast on TV with the smiling farmer couple in virtual attendance from their home in Nova Scotia.
You Canadians are really cool.