In 2016 while on vacation in Ontario, my appendix ruptured in a crowded ER waiting room and I nearly died of sepsis because of delayed care at an overwhelmed rural hospital in a vacation town during harvest season and a holiday week. When the pandemic hit my worst fears of overcrowded hospitals became commonplace in surges. I have PTSD.
The other day a guy in Ontario was tweeting out that he was waiting 18 hours with an appendicitis in the ER. Luckily he got surgery before it ruptured.
Simultaneously people are complaining about their flights being delayed in Toronto.
Credentialed people on social media publicly using “mental health” as a justification for risky leisure activities clearly have no idea about actual mental illness.
Stop it. It’s not ok to drink and drive just because you needed a pick me up.