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Topic	Thousands rally in Canada to protest masks.
OhhhJa 08/14/20 1:28:48 PM #62:	darkknight109 posted... And I already pointed out that our population distribution is pretty much the same as the US. There are more people in the US, which means more population centres, but the distribution doesn't change. When you look at the actual areas that have people in them and not the vast swathes of wilderness and arctic in Canada that have, essentially, no people in them, Canada has a pretty similar population density to the US. Lol no. US pop density is 90 per sq mile. Canada is 10 per sq mile darkknight109 posted... So, by your own logic, Canada has MORE of its population living in "major cities", therefore making America's failure to adequately address the virus all the more acute. Also untrue. Upon Googling, both are approximately 80% urban and 20% rural which actually surprised social admit that I thought Canada's rural population was a higher percentage. Still, US cities are definitely more densely packed overall darkknight109 posted... *...which sounds to me like a good reason why the US should* be far and away ahead of them and why they make for poor comparables. Or they would... but the US isn't, even when you set the bar almost as low as you possibly could. Worse, when held up to other first-world countries - even those in east Asia that have population densities far, far higher than even the most cramped US cities - the US still lags far behind.** For the first bold type: Not really. It actually shows the US does a great job by comparison of maintaining a relatively high standard of living compared to other countries of comparable populations that all have a significantly lower standard of living. For the 2nd bold section: Managing hundreds of millions of people is obviously tough work which is something no European country nor canada would know anything about. Japan has indeed done a great job of containing the virus though despite having over 100 million people densely packed together but they are also a highly xenophobic homogenous population so it's not completely unsurprising <cite>OhhhJa posted [p:943377910] in Thousands ... [t:78910455]...</cite> <quote>darkknight109 posted... </cite> <quote>And I already pointed out that our population distribution is pretty much the same as the US. There are more people in the US, which means more population centres, but the distribution doesn't change. When you look at the actual areas that have people in them and not the vast swathes of wilderness and arctic in Canada that have, essentially, no people in them, Canada has a pretty similar population density to the US.</quote> Lol no. US pop density is 90 per sq mile. Canada is 10 per sq mile darkknight109 posted... </cite> <quote>So, by your own logic, Canada has MORE of its population living in "major cities", therefore making America's failure to adequately address the virus all the more acute.</quote> Also untrue. Upon Googling, both are approximately 80% urban and 20% rural which actually surprised social admit that I thought Canada's rural population was a higher percentage. Still, US cities are definitely more densely packed overall darkknight109 posted... </cite> <quote>...which sounds to me like a good reason why the US should be far and away ahead of them and why they make for poor comparables. Or they would... but the US isn't, even when you set the bar almost as low as you possibly could. Worse, when held up to other first-world countries - even those in east Asia that have population densities far, far higher than even the most cramped US cities - the US still lags far behind.</quote> For the first bold type: Not really. It actually shows the US does a great job by comparison of maintaining a relatively high standard of living compared to other countries of comparable populations that all have a significantly lower standard of living. For the 2nd bold section: Managing hundreds of millions of people is obviously tough work which is something no European country nor canada would know anything about. Japan has indeed done a great job of containing the virus though despite having over 100 million people densely packed together but they are also a highly xenophobic homogenous population so it's not completely unsurprising </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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