[johan_larson]

Here are the current number of deaths per million from COVID for the G7 nations:

Japan - 119

Canada - 696

Germany - 1,093

France - 1,704

US - 1,876

UK - 1,886

Italy - 2,118

Judged by this metric, Canada came second among the major first-world democracies. We did well. To be sure, there were missteps. We should have done better. But we could also have done a whole lot worse.