Longer closure gathering momentum...

JaxDad wrote:

MDKMDK wrote:

JaxDad wrote:

MDKMDK wrote:

JaxDad wrote:

MDKMDK wrote:
I, for one, don't like the border closed. As this whole mess unfolded, many of us Canucks began to realize it's not so much about public safety as it is about people control and government over reach/power.

When I first started to read that post I was waiting for the punch line, then I realized you were being serious.

The whole point of isolation is to slow the spread of the virus to the point where the medical community can handle those infected.

You may have heard of the term “flatten the curve”?

If you look at the infection rate per capita on each side of the border and let those numbers sink in, you might just change your mind.

"the infection rate per capita" is another meaningless stat when you consider population densities here and there, and the number of large cities thay have versus the number of large and densely populated ones up here. How many infections require medical attention? How many hospitalizations? ICU visits? Morgue? That's why I suggested there are too many factors and too much ambiguity in terminaology, and the interpretations of the data they're collecting for there to ever be a right, one size fits all, answer, besides herd immunity and flattening the curve by attrition. We're chasing out tails endlessly on how to deal with this, and the experts can't even agree on mask or no mask. Just keep the highest risk people out of harm's way for a little longer, and lets get on with it. We've been nauseated from Covid19 for almost 6 months now, and I just think it's time to stick our finger down our throat, and get it over with.
I still respect your opinions. FWIW.
I bid you all adieu. Have a nice weekend, wherever you may be.

I hear what your saying, but as my grandpa used to say, you've got your shoes on the wrong way around there.

In the US the percentage of population that lives in a urban area in the US is about 80.7%. so then about 19.3 % of the population lives in a rural area.

In Canada the percentage of population that lives in a urban area is about 81.4 %. so then about 18.6 % of the population lives in a rural area.

So in fact Canada has a higher percentage of the population living in an urban area.

Understood, and that's where the majority of the cases are being discovered. Their pace of testing is a half again as many as us.
If we kept pace with them for testing ourselves, at the same rate, we'd probably look about the same or possibly a bit worse. It all depends on who you ask or where you get your stats. Type of test, who is performing them, what's the rate of inconclusives, false + or -, it can skew the numbers. Their total tests performed would cover our entire population.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
I thought I unsubscribed from this thread???
“Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.”

Your numbers fail your argument again neighbour.

The US (as of July 1) has tested about 103k / million of population.

Canada has tested about 73k / million of population.

The US has therefore tested about 50 % (per capita) more people than Canada but has nearly THREE times the number of cases (per capita again) than Canada does.