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“It definitely does change that,” Olynyk said. “Usually, your free agency is done July 1 and the Olympics are the beginning of August and you’re good to go. Now, the Olympics are the end of July and free agency is the beginning of August, so it’s kind of flip-flopped. Obviously, that plays a role and you have to think about it, whether it’s insurance or what the best route to go is.

On April 16 2021 03:44 JimmiC wrote:
Maybe I'm way to optimistic but I think by middle of October travel will be opened up, especially business travel likely with some sort of vaccine passport system. The most recent projections (which keep looking more positive with each update) show Canada reaching 100% between July and September and the US is ahead of us.

I think the complications will be around what to with the people who choose not to get the vaccines. I know the NFL has decided that people who choose not to (staff, coaches and other employees) will not be allowed to have direct contact with the players.

So I could see the NBA deciding that if a player chooses to not get vaccinated they would not be allowed to play, or Canada or the US deciding the same, but I think vaccinated people will be able to travel across the boarder by Oct.

Also, the NHL has changed the quarantine period from 2 weeks down to 1 which leads me to believe that even by playoff time that when they Canadian division plays the US teams they may also adjust the rules if everyone is vaccinated.

I'm sure there will be hoops to jump through but rapid testing is already common place, which is what they are using in Israel to deal with the people who choose to not be vaccinated.

This is all so hard to predict because of the variants and that areas in Canada are breaking records for hospitalizations as we speak. But I think when we look that far out and the money at stake for cross boarder travel, especially business I think that when both countries are vaccinated that will be opened up.