How’s the COVID battle going in countries the Canadian media have never even heard of ? (Hint : not so good)

Gosh darn there has been so many good news stories about falling rates of new COVID cases in various Canadian provinces, that I felt at least one media outlet should rain a little on everyone’s parade.

I checked today’s death tolls in various countries around the world - to make the point that the disease is still continuing to spread regardless of local successes.

Now these death totals, grim as they are today, may look laughingly small to future generations but one has to start somewhere.

Peru 3500 dead. Ecuador 3200. Switzerland 1900. Ireland 1600. Indonesia 1400. Portugal 1300. Pakistan 1200. Romania 1200. Poland 1000.

You may have heard a little news about outbreaks in these countries, but if not : Mexico 7500. Turkey 4500. India 4500.

Other than Belgium, no expert feels any nation has over-estimated their death toll : Its more likely that at least a half million have died so far globally.

Basically two months into what might be a four year* long battle....

* From beginnings (Spring 1916) to end (Spring 1920), the so called “1918” Spanish Flu lasted 4 years  —— with at least 4 major outbreaks (and three pauses in between to catch us off guard and make us complacent).

And the complacency gene of humanity has not mutated in the slightest, one hundred years on...