Thread by @mccormick_ted

This is what happens when you don't listen, or govern, in time
montrealgazette.com/news/local-new…

As we all watch the US in horror, the fact that Quebec has done worse throughout this crisis than *most* US states continues to get zero attention.

All the stupidity we laugh at -- people comparing being asked to wear masks in stores to totalitarianism, anti-mask marches, conspiracy theories, and people flaunting minimal (in fact insufficient) public health measures for the sake of having parties -- is here too, in heaps.

Which, incidentally, puts paid to the idea that a basic and pervasive lack of concern for other people's health is simply a product of American "individualism" or American conspiracy theories or American rightwing media.

Still, maybe electing governments that don't believe in government is a strategy we might want to rethink.