Covid Report Card

Almost two years into the pandemic with all the controversy about vaccine and mask wearing among other safety measures, it’s fascinating to see which countries did a great job and which ones failed their citizens, in terms of saving lives. 

I’m not talking about Peru, the sad number one in that category, but of “yours truly”, the United States of America, which leads the so-called advanced nation as #21. It is beaten by both Italy and Mexico! This is horrible and is the byproduct of Trump calling the virus a hoax, mocking wearing masks and doing everything he could to ignore the Pandemic. 

Canada, which shares our northern border, our lifestyle and our culture has three times less Covid victims per-capita than the USA and is #83, and scores even better than Israel which has done a pretty good job at containing the virus. In fact, if the US had done as well it would have saved more than 600,000 lives! 

Yet, a bunch of people are still not pleased with Trudeau’s leadership, go figure... 

The UK and France results are pretty deplorable too and stand as an example of incompetent politicians more concerned about their reelection than the welfare of their citizens. 

I do not mention China nor Russia as I don’t trust their reporting integrity, but have to underscore the performances of Australia, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan who should be held as example and which best practices we should study when the next pandemic hits. 

It's too bad thought that only few people are looking at these comparisons and drawing these obvious conclusions...