Masks are not health care. For most people they are a badge of submission and obediently wearing them when "ordered to" will have unintended consequences on the few remaining privileges they still possess.
Also, there is no such thing as "free (government) health care". There are strings attached.
It is paid for in taxation.
We an agree to disagree about the masks. It reduces the spread of transmission. And wear it or get a fine in most places in Ontario Canada. Pay to be free it works for me. Municipal bylaw enforcing it...geeze the parking enforcement giving tickets. That will make the news too things will get UGLY.
We dont have guns everywhere so maybe we are already in a boxcar...OMG the paranoia runs DEEP.
Many Canadians think your policies and idealism is as whacked as giving everyone free healthcare and we pay taxes for the poor bum on the street to have health care seems to you.
But it is ingrained in our culture.
like 1 year maternity leave and maple syrup and a double double at timmies.
And the mask...i wear it for that old dude...and that old gal who wish to be independant and get their groceries and have a very high rate of infection should it be caught...do i have it ? nope. My wife either (last tested negative yesterday she is in health care and gets regular tests).
But i know the old people will not get agitated and stressed and worried about me...even if that is all that it does its not so bad.
I shop when they shop...right on the edge of that time so its good to be kind to the elderly. My Moms would be proud.
The worst place of all....the beer store empties line. Up here man that is a hazerdous wasteland. 100s of previously sucked on bottles with stinky sweaty people in tank tops. I put mine out for the garbage pickers to take its not worth it for 60 cents a 6 pack.
Tax is a necessary evil. Unless you like jail because they go light on a lot of stuff but not income tax evasion.