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Kate 13:42 on 2020-04-28 Permalink Reply  

• mare 15:25 on 2020-04-28 Permalink

  If Montreal was a country (and these are for the island not including north and south shore) we would be placed near Spain and Italy on the fatalities-per-million list at around 500/MM. including the burbs we would still be in the top ten. (That top ten includes mini-countries with less than 50 deaths, but a tiny population.)

• Tim S. 16:00 on 2020-04-28 Permalink

  Worth repeating: when the shut down started on March 12, we had 12 confirmed cases in Quebec. That grew to 25,000, despite the social distancing. Now that there only 800ish new cases a day (without testing the general population) we can start talking about re-opening? I feel like the government is tempting fate just because they’re bored.

• Mark Côté 17:08 on 2020-04-28 Permalink

  Thing is, Montreal is not a country; it is a dense city. A better comparison would be with Madrid (population 3.3 million in the city proper, 6.5 million in the metro area, so 150%ish that of Montreal), which has had 13 000 covid-related deaths (we have about 13 000 *cases*).

  There are better ways to make arguments against relaxing restrictions than comparing apples to oranges.