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Canada Vs. USA: 1,000 Vs 30,000 death

What grim numbers to evaluate.  What did Canada do right (yes a 1,000 is still a lot) so that its death toll is such a small fraction of that of the US.  Canada's population is about 1/10 that of the US (more or less) so either Canada should have reported 3,000 death or the US has 20,000 too many dead people.

There is no doubt that Canadian have been inconvenienced by the social distancing and the shutting down of business.  That is simply the reality -- as far as I've seen no one has tried to have church stay open, also stupid rules have been few and far between.

The time frame for Covid cases are about identical (early March for both countries -- in Canada, it was in BC and in the US it was California and NYC).  The response in Canada has been aggressive with most of the country completely shut down since mid March. 

So why are so many more Americans dying?  Different in general population health? medical system (socialized in Canada) government response and action (some would say that California, New Jersey, and New York have been very responsive)


BTW and about nothing in particular -- I would think that drive-in cinema are about to make a comeback...

Finally, its interesting the read the "far right" press that still fawns of Trump as the savior, that the whole thing is really nothing that the models were wrong (forgetting that the models were initially based on no social distancing), truly fascinating -- it goes to show that for a portion of the electorate the only real solution is to kill  all the Democrats (also Republicans that don't support Trump) How did this guy build such a cult following?  Enquiring minds want to know!


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