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by sofixa 1724 days ago
> Has Canada, a territory of extremely low population density, been under strict stay-at-home orders - prohibiting not "to see other people", but just to leave the house

It doesn't seem to be the case - during the Spanish flu pandemic, there was no central health authority and every municipality deal with it however they could, usually by shutting down everything non-essential and mandating masks. However the patchy response resulted in lots of deaths, and thus precipitated the creation of a federal health department.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-mandatory-mas...

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/1918-spani...