Comments by "" (@TheHuxleyAgnostic) on "Things Are Getting Worse In Canada" video.
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@Banana_Split_Cream_Buns It was very high testing rates that was the saving grace for New Zealand, Australia, S Korea, Vietnam (one of the longest borders with China), and a few others who responded very well. Be grateful of your leadership, and not just grateful you're on an island. Look up tests per confirmed case rates. Those countries tested in the high double digits to hundreds of people per confirmed case. Meanwhile, countries like the US, UK (an island nation), Italy, and others with the highest death rates, had low testing rates throughout much of the pandemic. Countries like Canada, Germany, Denmark, Norway, had higher testing rates than the second group, but lower testing rates than the first group, and had medium results.
Canada and the US are effectively islands, relative to China, which is an ocean away. The US' troubles weren't caused by people walking the virus in from Canada and Mexico. It flew in, and the response was terrible, and what we're considering bad, here in Canada, is a 3x lower death rate than the US. Even though our response was mediocre, we've done a lot better. Canada's deaths per million rate would translate into 300+k fewer deaths in the US, if they had had a mediocre response, like ours.
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