Be thankful you live in this country
I TOLD a relative, a longtime migrant to Canada, that first chance he gets, he should move back here while the pandemic raged since it is safer here than his adopted country. He laughed; he thought I was joking and said something ridiculing my advice. Irritated, I just told him to look at the worldometers.info/coronavirus statistics.
As of this writing (December 29), the Philippines is ranked 29th in that list with the No. 1 slot occupied by the worst country hit, the United States. Weâre three ranks better off than Canada with the two intervening slots occupied by Bangladesh and Pakistan. Weâve improved from rank 19 three months ago.

Cases here, a country of 110 million, total 470, 650 for a cases/per 1 million population ratio of 4,267. Canada, a country with just 38 million has 554,419 cases for a ratio of 14,627 cases per 1 million Canadians. Weâve had 9,124 deaths due to Covid-19; Canada has 15,009.
Can you believe this: in terms of the pandemicâs impact, weâre practically on the same level as Switzerland, which has total cases of 438,384 for a population of just 9 million.
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