I suppose being so close to the Northern border you're well aware that public health is Canada's approach. And, no doubt, that the difference between their success with Covid-19 and our dismal failure is staggering.
I sure am, Rainey! My sister works in health care, and she recently moved to Canada (not for political reasons, the guy she's seeing is from there.) She was so tired of the profit-driven system here, where she was limited to 15 minutes per patient, and was paid according to "patient outcomes" even though she had no control over whether her patients took their medications (if they could afford them at all!) or whether it was already a serious situation by the time she first saw the patient. The top brass were management types, not doctors, and they were always nickel-and-diming everyone, chipping away at benefits, buying the cheapest supplies, etc. Her last straw was when they tried to force her to do something unethical - to train someone in a specialty in which she was not qualified to teach, just because the company was paid per trainee but they didn't have enough qualified trainers.
She loves the Canadian health system so far! She hates her hours (alternating 12-hour days and nights, yuck) but after she gets her permanent resident card in 6 months or so, she can change jobs if she wants to. She says everybody she works with is really friendly and respectful to each other, from the Head of Surgery to the lady who mops the floors, because there's so much less stress. It's totally focused on the patients, and nobody takes her to task for using more than a certain quota of swabs or whatever.
About their attitude to Covid, she says there are a few anti-maskers, but much less than here. They just stand around in small groups, yelling and carrying signs, instead of threatening people with weapons or going into stores to cough on the produce. Most people just scoff at them and avoid them.
