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by version_five 1629 days ago
And?
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> And?

I can only speculate as to /u/brimnes' point, but there are many ways to measure the effectiveness of different countries' responses to covid. One might be to look at the countries' death rates. By that measure, the US response has been quite a bit worse than Canada's.

Perhaps it’s as simple as Americans liking McDonalds a lot more than Canadians like Tim Hortons.

Obesity is a key driver of comorbidity statistics. [0]

[0] - https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/obesity-and-covid-19.html

That's pretty high