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On Wednesday, two tour boats came to the forefront of the ongoing debate on social estrangement.
Maid of the Mist, based in Niagara Falls, New York, offers boat tours that give tourists an up-close look at Niagara Falls. Its Canadian counterpart, Hornblower, offers roughly the same service, just from across the border. The experience ($22 and $34 CAD respectively) is similar, no matter where it starts: Tourists don a disposable plastic raincoat — blue for American visitors, red for Canadian visitors — and board the boat, which goes so close to the falls that people on board are drenched by the mist.
On Monday, the two boats were photographed side by side through Reuters: the maid of the Mist full of tourists, while the Hornblower had only six other people on board.
Kevin Keenan, spokesman for the US company, told Business Insider that, on average, the ships had about 163 people on board at once since the start of the season. He added that there are social distance markers in the facility and that visitors should wear masks.
In addition, the company’s online page notes that staff members undergo a medical examination at the beginning of their shift and that there are hand sanitizer stations in places of the travel facility.
Most of Ontario’s spaces, the province where Niagara Falls are located, entered the third phase of its reopening today, July 24, allowing almost all businesses and public spaces to reopen while helping to maintain high-risk spaces such as amusement parks and buffets. Closed.
Mory DiMaurizio, general manager and vice president of Hornblower, told Business Insider that in the third phase of Ontario’s reopening, up to a hundred more people will be hired at a time.
As of Friday, the United States had reported that more than four million showed cases of coronavirus in total, at 11,four679 in Canada, according to Johns Hopkins data.
While masking and social estrangement in the United States are strongly recommended to involve the spread of the fatal virus, mandatory masking policies have a widely debated and politicized theme, and some others categorically refuse to hide their faces, raising non-public freedom and conspiracy. Theories
Canadians think government policies to curb spread are markedly different. The Angus Reid Institute, a Canadian nonprofit study group, published a study this week that found that almost part of all Canadians, their Canadian compatriots, would face a blockade if a wave came for the time being.
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