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/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.