Not a good thing, at all....

In deaths per million USA nearly 3 times the rate in Canada. Both are lousy

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/282929

As long as we're talking about death .............Population 328.2 million, For the U.S. Here's 5 of 10 more things you can add to your numbers list........and this just for 2017

Below is about actual deaths, not cases.

1 Heart disease:
Deaths in 2017: 647,457 Trusted Source
Percentage of total deaths: 23.5%

2. Cancer
Deaths in 2017: 599,108Trusted Source
Percentage of total deaths: 21.3%

3. Unintentional injuries
Deaths in 2017: 169,936Trusted Source
Percentage of total deaths: 6%

4. Chronic lower respiratory disease
Deaths in 2017: 160,201 Trusted Source
Percentage of total deaths: 5.7%

5. Stroke and cerebrovascular diseases
Deaths in 2017: 146,383Trusted Source
Percentage of total deaths: 5.2%

Canadian numbers are available.


Boy, a lot for you to worry about in this world. Y'all be careful out there

Canada's vaccination rate lags far behind the US. Canada has approximately 2% of their population fully vaccinated, while the US has over 20% fully vaccinated. The US is administering 4,000,000 doses a day, which is one for every 82 citizens while Canada is administering 270,000 doses a day, or one dose for every 139 residents.
In Canada, the 7 day moving average of new cases has risen from 2850 March 1st to over 7800 as of April 9th. In the US, where restrictions have been loosened dramatically, the 7 day moving average of cases has actually fallen from March 1st's rate of 67,000 per day to the current 65,000 per day.
Maybe the US isn't so bad after all.

wapiticountry wrote:
Canada's vaccination rate lags far behind the US. Canada has approximately 2% of their population fully vaccinated, while the US has over 20% fully vaccinated. The US is administering 4,000,000 doses a day, which is one for every 82 citizens while Canada is administering 270,000 doses a day, or one dose for every 139 residents.
In Canada, the 7 day moving average of new cases has risen from 2850 March 1st to over 7800 as of April 9th. In the US, where restrictions have been loosened dramatically, the 7 day moving average of cases has actually fallen from March 1st's rate of 67,000 per day to the current 65,000 per day.
Maybe the US isn't so bad after all.

Canada doesn’t have vaccine manufactures, so we have to purchase ours from other countries from around the world. There has been disruption in the delivery of vaccine from around the world to Canada and the Provinces.
Now if you want to talk about good Canadian Beer, we have plenty of that with enough on hand to ensure every beer drinker in Canada is fully equipped for camping getaways
I rest my case.
Soup.

SideHillSoup wrote:

wapiticountry wrote:
Canada's vaccination rate lags far behind the US. Canada has approximately 2% of their population fully vaccinated, while the US has over 20% fully vaccinated. The US is administering 4,000,000 doses a day, which is one for every 82 citizens while Canada is administering 270,000 doses a day, or one dose for every 139 residents.
In Canada, the 7 day moving average of new cases has risen from 2850 March 1st to over 7800 as of April 9th. In the US, where restrictions have been loosened dramatically, the 7 day moving average of cases has actually fallen from March 1st's rate of 67,000 per day to the current 65,000 per day.
Maybe the US isn't so bad after all.

Canada doesn’t have vaccine manufactures, so we have to purchase ours from other countries from around the world. There has been disruption in the delivery of vaccine from around the world to Canada and the Provinces.
Now if you want to talk about good Canadian Beer, we have plenty of that with enough on hand to ensure every beer drinker in Canada is fully equipped for camping getaways
I rest my case.
Soup.

Canada purchased their vaccines by quarters. X amount of vaccines to be delivered in each. This allowed the providers to delay deliveries to the end of each quarter. Oops. Canada also took steps to negotiate lower prices causing suppliers to naturally sell allocations to higher bidders. Bargain basement shoppers often get only the leftovers.

I don’t think it’s that much of an issue since the land border has been closed for over a year!!! Sadly, that’s just my luck! Had to wait through the entire Trump presidency before we could retire and then to top it off, a global pandemic hit, everyone got into RVs and camping, and now I can’t get into Canada to find a summer property to consider purchasing - and if/when I do, prices will most likely be significantly higher than they were pre-pandemic!!! - If I didn’t have bad luck, I’d have no luck - smh ??????

riah wrote:
I don’t think it’s that much of an issue since the land border has been closed for over a year!!! Sadly, that’s just my luck! Had to wait through the entire Trump presidency before we could retire and then to top it off, a global pandemic hit, everyone got into RVs and camping, and now I can’t get into Canada to find a summer property to consider purchasing - and if/when I do, prices will most likely be significantly higher than they were pre-pandemic!!! - If I didn’t have bad luck, I’d have no luck - smh ??????

Did you work for the Trump Administration? If not, why would you have to wait thru any presidential term before you could retire? Could it possibly be that because of your age or length of employment you didn't qualify for retirement benefits until a certain date and that had nothing at all to do with whomever was president? I turn 65 during the current administration, do I have to thank President Biden for allowing me to qualify for Medicare?

Too bad the U.S. doesn't do that with Mexico. The border heading south is wide open.

Well it was an interesting discussion.
This thread will be shut down very soon now I think.

Don't count me as a Trumpist (wife's uncle lost money in a Trump bankruptcy) but, funding R&D for AstraZeneca, with option to buy doses and fronting a pre-production buy order for Pfizer are the reasons the US got first dibs on the vaccines. See Link. I think Moderna and J&J also got some kinda deal. It is not because they manufacture in the US. We got the vaccines the old fashioned way, we fronted the money and got rights of first refusal. It would be in the best interests of the US of A to move some of the soon to be excess doses to our friends.

This is an example of a very good decision of the Trump presidency. Now, if you got a month, we can talk about the bad ones.