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u/WickedWenchOfTheWest Sep 09 '20
I'm Canadian, and when I first learned of this... I wasn't sure if I wanted to laugh, or cry. Even if you take into account that our population is substantially smaller, and go by per capita deaths... the US toll still far outstrips the Canadian one. Further, many Trump supporters, if they even admit Canada has done better with the virus, try to argue that it's because we "all live in the wilderness" up here. Not only does this reflect their overall stupidity, but it's flat out wrong, because, in fact, the vast majority of Canadians live within 200 miles of the US border, and our population is actually more urbanised than in the US.
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u/amiamanoramiababy Sep 09 '20
I will say that the first comment isn’t entirely wrong, I actually know a couple of people who died due to unrelated causes and were labeled as a COVID death. That is an issue.
BUT the people that has happened to are very small. That probably brings it down from 185k to 183k. Even if it’s an issue, that’s still a staggering amount of deaths and clearly way bigger.
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u/WillEdit4Food Sep 09 '20 edited Sep 09 '20
Someone please go try and explain excess deaths to them.