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Originally Posted by DNSB
In the same period, Canada with a population of 37.8 million has 23,204 COVID-19 deaths from 1.03 million infections. If the USA at 328.2 million population had the same infection and death rates per million population, the number of deaths would have been 202,595 from 8.99 million infections compared to the actual 30.66 million infections and 555,231 deaths.
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Could that be because Canada is overall more rural and less densely populated than the US? Or maybe because there are more international visitors coming into the US than into Canada? When you're talking about cause and effect, you can't simply state the effect and then make up the cause as if it were fact. You stated a plausible cause, "Canadians are more willing to put up with lockdowns and closures". And I stated two other equally plausible causes. Which is it? Or is it something else that we haven't touched on? One thing I have seen mentioned a lot is that covid has disproportionately affected blacks and other people of color. I do not know this for a fact, but I suspect that it may be true - Canada probably has proportionally fewer people of color than the US does. Yet another plausible explanation. I do not know that Canadians, or their government, are any better than the US at controlling covid. They may be, or they may not be. There's currently no real evidence one way of the other, only theories. Numbers tell us that the infection and death rate is lower in Canada. But they don't tell us why. You subscribe to the theory that Canada is doing better because Canadians are more willing to be subjected to lockdowns and closures. That is fine for you to believe that. But it does not make it a fact. Not yet, not without more research and proof anyway.