The COVID-19 pandemic

[tomh009]

To put this in context, 22'000 is slightly less than half of all Canadian military deaths in World War 1. This will probably be the biggest loss of Canadian life since then. If that doesn't make people stay inside, then I don't know what will - aside from police having the power to really punish people.

WW1: 61,000 dead (0.8% of population)
1918 flu pandemic: 55,000 dead (0.7% of population)
WW2: 45,000 dead (0.4% of population)

22,000 dead now would be 0.07% of the population, mostly older people. WW1 + 1918 flu (1.5% of population, mostly younger people) it is not.