Cut off from the rest of America, a small town endures lockdown - CBS Sunday Morning

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Point Roberts, Wash., on a peninsula jutting out from Canada beneath the 49th parallel, is a tiny piece of America separate from the U.S. mainland. Its isolation helped protect the community from the spread of COVID-19, but restrictions at the border have effectively trapped residents there – and kept visitors out. Correspondent Lee Cowan journeys to the isolated town suffering from the economic ripple effects of the pandemic.

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1. They have recently gotten a little bit of relief...

we now have agreements with Canada to allow residents to make the trip to Blaine for necessary things - doctor's appointments, etc. Now that tRump is out of office and not hurling insults their way things seem to be going a little smoother.

The state has been providing a temporary foot ferry service a few days a week, when the water isn't too rough.

I haven't heard anything about how they're handling the school - the only school there only goes through 4th grade, and all older students took a bus through the two border crossings, each way, every day. Don't know if everything is still set up for distance learning.

Point Roberts is in a strange situation. In the mid-90's they discovered an animal with rabies there. The Americans couldn't bring their animals through the two border crossings to get them vaccinated in the mainland, and the US-approved vaccine was not approved for import into Canada. The Coast Guard set up some 'training missions' to get the vaccine and a veterinarian to the Point, and all the pets got their shots. A lot of Canadians own vacation homes there - like they showed in the video, they can't go across to tend their property.