Quebec would make top 5, if a country
Were Quebec a country, its rate of Covid deaths per capita would put it in the top five.
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Alison Cummins 09:55 on 2020-05-26 Permalink
On April 2 our fatalities growth rate peaked at 1.252.
April 25 it dipped below 1 for the first time but immediately bounced back up again.
May 7 we dipped below 1 for the second time; May 15 we hit a minimum of 0.954; May 24 we were back up over 1 again. (Source: https://datagraver.com/corona/#/.)
We were below 1 for 17 days in a row. And now we’re blowing the opportunity to get it under control.
MarcG 10:59 on 2020-05-26 Permalink
If you want to share that website with the specific filters you set you need to click on the “share these settings” button in the top right corner and copy that link.
Alison Cummins 12:51 on 2020-05-26 Permalink
MarcG,
Yep. But I’ve had trouble with that in the past, so I’ve given up. The URL is so long that it breaks, so I would have to make a tinyurl which people might or might not trust.
I figure that if people want to see for themselves they can enter “Quebec” in the region field. Otherwise… datagraver is just the place I pulled my info from.
Jonathan 14:18 on 2020-05-26 Permalink
This is a strange way to compare, and I see it so often. We saw it when it was declared that Montreal’s COVID situation was worse than Italy’s. It just shows how you can doctor geographic boundaries to manipulate the truth. I’m a human geographer by training, and this one of the first lessons taught in cartographic demography!
If we selectively choose regions that have high death rates – take Hubei, or Lombardy, or some Spanish regions, then it could push Quebec down the list to something that would be very impressive.
Alison Cummins 14:51 on 2020-05-26 Permalink
If Quebec were a state, it would be eighth after New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, DC, Rhode Island, Louisiana and Michigan.
https://datagraver.com/corona/#/?regions=canada:hex000000,quebec:hexE135BD,us:hex10ACCD,connecticut:hex44ADFF,delaware:hex3D2584,district of columbia:hex30460D,illinois:hex11A32A,indiana:hexD33D23,louisiana:hexCD5C00,maryland:hexED8638,massachusetts:hex8F4F7D,michigan:hex201E5D,new jersey:hex0BB508,new york:hexA04B42,pennsylvania:hexA7D0EC,rhode island:hexC44C09&logScale=false&perCapita=true&cutYaxis=true&cumulative=true&types=2,3&mappingType=date&mappingMaxDays=200&mappingStartNumber=25&mappingNumberStyle=relative&mappingEventType=lockdown&mappingDate=2020-3-6&smoothening=7&description=Tool%20for%20comparison%20on%20Covid%2019%20development%20for%20countries%20and%20regions
Alison Cummins 14:51 on 2020-05-26 Permalink
Or see tinyurl.
https://tinyurl.com/y85hotyc
Alison Cummins 14:53 on 2020-05-26 Permalink
(Sorry, ninth.)
Jonathan 15:08 on 2020-05-26 Permalink
When you start throwing in regions in Italy, Uk, I think it goes further down on the list. (i put Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Lombardy and Madrid region). That website doesn’t have regional data for most countries, but I think if i entered Amazonias and regions/states/provinces in Iran, Turkey, etc it would be very different.
The point is there, however. We can’t just pick and choose data that serves a self-determined point. As an aside, this is what I find unappetizing from Aaron Derfel’s tweets. He cherry picks a lot of his stats/charts/graphs.
All this isn’t to say the situation is great in Quebec. It’s just not as bad as the JdM and the Gazoo wants it to be.
Joey 16:01 on 2020-05-26 Permalink
ZOMG if that residence in TMR were a country it would be the global epicentre of COVID-19!!!11111
Ian 18:59 on 2020-05-26 Permalink
The thing is Quebec does imagine itself a country in some circles, so this is a relevant metric.,
Brett 21:13 on 2020-05-26 Permalink
So, basically, the lockdown was too little, too late. Sweden kicked our ass with no lockdown. Time to open the bars, folks!
Kate 21:31 on 2020-05-26 Permalink
Sweden is not kicking anyone’s ass right now, Brett.
It’s not a race to the bottom.
Alison Cummins 08:30 on 2020-05-27 Permalink
Were Quebec a region in Belgium, Italy, Spain or the UK, it would be number 22 out of 62.
https://tinyurl.com/ybkj7vau