My father was six years old when the Second World War ended, and despite his young age, he remembers some events of the last year of the conflict and the difficulty growing in the aftermath of such a devastating war. For my father to tell me that this pandemic is more serious and impeding than post-World War 2 in his ravaged hometown, it must mean it is truly severe.
Towards the beginning of the pandemic, our family endured it with mixed reassurance, as health wise we believe our family can cope with COVID-19, but financially we were very worried because both matriarch and patriarch (me) rely heavily on the U.S economy for our income. Moreover, Trump responded to COVID-19 by being dismissive of it, and that got us worried because the longer a country takes to respond, the greater the negative effects there is and the longer it takes to return to normal.
Canada will come out of this pandemic like most European countries, better and stronger than the U.S. Better, because we will know what to do next pandemic, and stronger, because we believe in unity more than before. I have noticed that even if the anti-maskers exist in Canada as well, they are extremely irrelevant compared to the general population. In the USA, it is a whole other story, to the point it is sad, but not surprising to see the amount of extreme weirdness among their population, starting with their present leader as enabler.
Now, the only thing left is the reopening of the U.S-Canada border and to fully resume our business, but that may take some time as the U.S is far from having this pandemic under control.