The COVID-19 pandemic

[panamaniac]

Health care is the largest budget item for provincial governments, so they are always trying to save money by cutbacks or restricting the number of doctors and nurses, etc. When a major crisis happens like the current pandemic, we are caught short because of government stinginess and lack of foresight. Hence triage and avoidable tragedy.

I wonder whether the pandemic has lessened public resistance to the provincial tax increases that would be needed to fund health care at something closer to the necessary level.  My gut tells me "no", unfortunately.