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WAIW | 3 Reasons Why I’m Not Going Back to Canada During the Pandemic

March 18, 2020

With Canada recently declaring that all Canadian citizens should return home if they’re outside of the country, plenty of people are changing their vacation plans and other things to make their way back. However, I am not one of them, and today I thought I would share a few reasons why that is.

For more on just why I feel safer here, you can check out this piece I wrote on Medium over the weekend. Although I’m happy to see that folks back home, including the government, are taking things more seriously since I wrote it, I’m still shocked at how bad things are getting given just where things stand here in Vietnam months after the country started working on keeping the infection at bay.

Hopefully, if things don’t get worse in the West, I’ll be returning home at the end of May for a previously scheduled trip. For now, I’m not going anywhere.

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