Sunrise,
On a personal note re: are you depressed. Well I think much of the population is a little depressed. Me personally I’m doing well and lucky to not be personally impacted financially or health wise in my family or social circle.
No my recent posts aren’t motivated by depression or anxiety, they are motivated by anger and disappointment. I think it’s a great exercise in ferreting out the BS in our society, our weaknesses, our blind spots, our arrogance.
I use the word failure with specific intent. One of the idiosyncrasies of Canadian culture that bugs me (there are of course many positive ones as well) is the reflex to be defensive and deflect. I personally suffer from this. When there’s a problem or we did something wrong our first instinct is to defend our position and deflect to it being someone else’s fault or responsibility. If you doubt that this is cultural thing go make a complaint to a customer service representative in Canada, then go to Japan and do same.
Defend and deflect is what all our leadership in Canada is doing and it cost thousands of people their lives. Passivity over proactively cost thousands of people their lives and millions their livelihood. And we stuck it to the most marginalized and weak.
Nope, I apologize for my tone and I’ll get over it but I’m still pissed. Newsweek just came out with a list of the top hospitals in the world. Toronto was by far the standout with the most top rated hospitals in the world by far. Sounds great but put to the test our health system still failed.