Dear Editor,
Your correspondence the last two weeks has discussed the current virus, ‘this devastating (and very real) pandemic.’ Its virulence can be measured only by statistics in context. Let’s look at them.
In the ten-and-a-half months since the first case was confirmed, we’ve had about 120,000 cases. That sounds like a lot, but is only 3% of our total population (4.3 million).
A little more than 26,000 people died in this province from all causes during 2019. In ten-