@McGentrix,
Quote:Why don't you take a break from politics. It's obviously unhealthy for you. Go take advantage of some of that free Canadian healthcare and stop with this kind of bullshit?
Thanks for your concern. At the beginning of March, I popped in to see my doctor to get 6 months of prescriptions for my various meds so that I might 1) keep myself isolated and 2) reduce stress on our medical system up the road. Though doctors are paid some amount for each visit, she instantly filled that request. Also, she's young, smart as a whip, funny and beautiful, so my loss.
We're doing fairly well here. So far, there are 1,066 cases in the province of BC with 25 deaths. Ontario has 37 deaths and Quebec has 33. In Canada there are 9,613 cases total with 109 deaths. Nursing and retirement homes are the primary infection sites. Stay at home recommendations have been in place for weeks.
The federal and provincial governments have been tightly coordinated and a significant number of manufacturing enterprises have stepped up to shift production towards needed equipment and PPEs. (Bauer sports equipment, for example, has re-purposed production to making face shields for front line workers). Here in our town, drive-through testing has been in place for about two weeks (given any doctor's order for the test). There are, so far as I know, no significant conflicts between provinces and the federal government re strategies and supplies.
Normally, our provinces are the main determiners of schools, hospitals, welfare, highways, medical delivery/insurance, unemployment, etc. But in times of crisis or stress, the federal government steps in to help with finance and coordination. Though as is the case everywhere, this is a very unusual stress on all systems. But to this point, it's being handled with efficiency and little noise.
As to the level of upset and even seething anger you perceive in my posts regarding the US and what Trump and his administration/party and Fox are doing, that's a natural and appropriate moral response. If one gives a damn about others' suffering and if one gives a damn about American democracy when America's footprint in the world is so significant.
