Our system is a disorganized mess. Like we had "hallway medicine" happening under the Liberals, who were at least semi-competent. Now we have the Tories in charge and they've been cutting everything, including healthcare.
This said, we don't have the demographics or the smokers that Italy has. And the shutdowns, while scary, are what kept things containable in Taiwan and Singapore. So I have some confidence that it won't hit us as badly.
But—and here is the scary thing. We share a border with the US, and there's a ton of back-and-forth travel and trade. The vast majority of the Canadian population lives near the border.
And the US is not going to be able to contain it. They haven't. They don't have a healthcare system, they don't have anyone competent in charge, they're pulling Iran-level coverups of how bad it is, and it's not like viruses respect national borders. So even if we are really sensible—and I do think that the measures we're taking are good ones—we have that in the mix.
My best friend is a doctor in Seattle. Admittedly, she's a psychiatrist, but she works with an elderly, medically frail, housing-insecure population. She hasn't been writing much because she's obviously ridiculously busy, but what she's said has just been awful. So I'm worried for her (fortunately she's not in a high-risk group) but I'm also thinking of populations where this can just explode.
Like we have a broken shelter system. The city has finally agreed to quarantine homeless people in hotel rooms, which they could have done all along and should be doing now, because the shelters and the streets are already disease vectors for everything else.
Teal deer: Europe has a much more intact social safety net than North America, and even though Canada is in better shape than the US, Ontario, where I live, has been in ongoing crises that could potentially make things really bad.
About Cocoa, yeah, that sounds scary. :( Do you think you could stock those supplies? I'm rooting for her to stay healthy during all this. So many hugs to both of you. And I get what you're saying about her being your world, I agree.
I'm going to do another run to my vet. I have the needles and saline bags are $30, so I can buy one and keep it in the fridge just in case she needs it. Though she finally did eat and drink on her own today, so I think it might just have been that she didn't like her wet food today for some reason.
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This said, we don't have the demographics or the smokers that Italy has. And the shutdowns, while scary, are what kept things containable in Taiwan and Singapore. So I have some confidence that it won't hit us as badly.
But—and here is the scary thing. We share a border with the US, and there's a ton of back-and-forth travel and trade. The vast majority of the Canadian population lives near the border.
And the US is not going to be able to contain it. They haven't. They don't have a healthcare system, they don't have anyone competent in charge, they're pulling Iran-level coverups of how bad it is, and it's not like viruses respect national borders. So even if we are really sensible—and I do think that the measures we're taking are good ones—we have that in the mix.
My best friend is a doctor in Seattle. Admittedly, she's a psychiatrist, but she works with an elderly, medically frail, housing-insecure population. She hasn't been writing much because she's obviously ridiculously busy, but what she's said has just been awful. So I'm worried for her (fortunately she's not in a high-risk group) but I'm also thinking of populations where this can just explode.
Like we have a broken shelter system. The city has finally agreed to quarantine homeless people in hotel rooms, which they could have done all along and should be doing now, because the shelters and the streets are already disease vectors for everything else.
Teal deer: Europe has a much more intact social safety net than North America, and even though Canada is in better shape than the US, Ontario, where I live, has been in ongoing crises that could potentially make things really bad.
About Cocoa, yeah, that sounds scary. :( Do you think you could stock those supplies? I'm rooting for her to stay healthy during all this. So many hugs to both of you. And I get what you're saying about her being your world, I agree.
I'm going to do another run to my vet. I have the needles and saline bags are $30, so I can buy one and keep it in the fridge just in case she needs it. Though she finally did eat and drink on her own today, so I think it might just have been that she didn't like her wet food today for some reason.