Canada

Canadians don't act like it. A growing share of our population says they don't like vaccines for kids. And it isn't just talk. Canadians are getting vaccinated less. And not just the scary new vaccines, but the tried and true ones that we've been taking for generations too.

Similarly, we've engaged in approximately zero self-reflection over the COVD-19 pandemic. A great example of this is the inexplicable mismanagement of Canada's personal protective equipment stockpile. It cuts across Liberal/Conservative lines: our governments pinky swore to maintain the stockpile after SARS. The Public Health Agency of Canada's internal audits noticed that in 2010, and again in 2013, but chose to do nothing. Then we spent the first part of the next pandemic scrambling to get healthcare workers PPE. If Canadians gave a collective shit, this and all of the similar disappointments at PHAC (the bureaucratization of the organization; the AWOL pandemic preparedness plan; the inexplicable shutdown of the pandemic early warning observatory - but it was restarted, so I'll give this one a pass), then we'd talk about it at the very least. But we don't.

And then there's the collapsing provincial healthcare systems. We don't have enough specialists, doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, or personal care attendants. But we allow our political parties to make mealy mouthed promises and do virtually nothing about it.