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Originally Posted by xzmattzx
Nice pictures again!
I heard that Newfoundland is cut off from the world, with no one allowed to go to or from the island. Is that correct?
I have been seeing Newfoundland stuff around here in Delaware, for some reason. People have the Newfoundland flag as the front license plates on their cars. There's a house I drive past on the way to my parents' house that flies the Newfoundland flag.
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Our diaspora is enormous - has to be millions strong at this point. It's mostly concentrated in Canada and the United States but honestly it's hard to find an English-speaking city that doesn't have at least a small Newfoundland community. We're over-represented in certain industries as well, depending on the region (for example, in Canadian media, in American comedy writing, in American steel, in oil and gas worldwide, etc.).
The travel rules here are a bit complicated.
We're in a mutual travel bubble with the Maritimes (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island). So anyone from those three Canadian provinces can come to Newfoundland for any reason, without having to quarantine.
Anyone from anywhere else in Canada, or the world, has to apply for permission to come. It needs to be essential travel, approved in advance by the Chief Medical Officer of Health. Those people are required to self-isolate for 14 days once they arrive here. That basically eliminates tourists, who would be using their whole vacation cooped up in their bedroom - so most of these people getting approved are returning home here or moving here.
There are a few more complicated types of people - temporary foreign workers (Canada's version of agricultural migrant workers in the States). Their employer is required to isolate them for 14 days somewhere on the Canadian mainland. Only after that are they allowed to come to Newfoundland. (This isn't as much us being strict as it sounds - Canada is only allowing international flights to land at four airports, not including St. John's, and these workers are required by us to isolate where they land).
Then there are essential workers - say, journeypersons with rare expertise, or some sort of healthcare specialist - these people are allowed to enter, allowed to work immediately, but most self-isolate at home when not at work.