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adjl posted...

Canadians have generally been more compliant with infection control recommendations, including wearing masks in many other situations (despite it generally not being mandatory), and Canada's governments mounted a much faster, more decisive response to the pandemic than the US' did. Even now, Canada's only very cautiously reopening in areas that are doing very well.

The US, by contrast, has suffered from a whole lot more problems with people disregarding recommendations because "muh freedom" and/or because they believe the whole thing is a hoax, was generally quite slow to implement recommendations and testing (and even now has a president suggesting that slowing down testing to help the numbers go down so the country looks better isn't an incomprehensibly insane idea), and is being significantly less cautious about reopening everything. It's very much not just the masks that differentiate the two countries' situations, especially where I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that Canada currently has a higher mask usage rate than the US.

The fact that Canada completely disregards masks and the US allowed wide-scale social gathering in the form of "protests" kinda supports the hoax claim.

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