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This new normal of near-constant wildfire smoke annoys me as much as the next person. But it serves as a reminder that we share one fragile atmosphere that we're collectively screwing up. Fruitless to waste all this energy pointing fingers like children when we should be joining hands to fix this. It's like nature's warning signal.

Whether it be wildfire smoke, a global pandemic, or heat waves, nature know no geopolitical borders. So maybe instead of squabbling over whose smoke is whose, we could acknowledge that we're all in this smoldering mess together. We only have one planet to live on, and we only have one atmosphere to breathe from.

(just food for thought)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The Healthcare is a total wreck. Here you get a 50 % chance of surviving instead of a 100% of going broke

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

50% chance of surviving? What are you talking about?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A man went to the hospital, waited for 16hrs to be seen by a doctor, just to be sent home. He died later that day.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/man-dies-after-waiting-16-hours-quebec-hospital-1.6626601

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You act like that doesn't happen with regularity in the US.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I act like I have no idea how it works there. I'm glad I don't live there

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That only means that healthcare need more funding, not that healthcare is bad.

If I were to find one case, just like that in the US, would you say that no healthcare is bad ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I agree, one case is not enough to justify calling the whole system a wreck. The general state, any day each hospital and more clinics are overloaded and very inefficient.

Lots of medical personnel left during the pandemic and never hired enough to make up for the loss.

I've had care in private hospitals in other places (poorer countries) and they were at least an order of magnitude better. The hyperbole of total wreck mostly means my disappointment in the system