Difference between a person responding or reacting: To respond suggests a more thoughtful and deliberate reaction that may take some time. To react suggests a more immediate and instinctual response often driven by emotions or reflexes (typically fast and automatic).
Ever wonder why Canadians react more than respond to situations, crises, and basically developing history?
Canada is a nation that does not stand by the moniker “Hope for the Best, Prepare for the Worst”. Canada’s leaders, governments and corporations all seemingly lack the gene that initiates essential prep for those things and happenings that could happen. For example, the pandemic. All members of the medical profession, the Health Ministry and governments knew this historical event could happen, striking our population as it did. Did these people prepare, plan or study this possibility? Well, from the way they all responded, the answer is a confirmed NO! Many Canadians died, and thousands were inflicted with the most severe of health scares possible. The side effects of this event will be with us for decades to come.
Why did so many people die on the Titanic? Because the managers of the shipping line thought the ship was unsinkable, they did not prepare for an event that could happen. Not enough lifeboats and a over crowded passenger manifest ensured a high tally of deaths. Human beings are afflicted with a certain financial disease known as greed. The Managers of Canada’s Health Ministry, down to the hospitals that exist for our benefit, were not prepared. Our stock of health materials, such as masks, was heavily outdated, and staffing of essential personnel was below necessary levels.
Everything is dependent upon an organization’s budget, and budgets are set and managed by so-called elite business managers whose sole purpose in life is the making of and management of the organization’s profitability.
Profits before Safety – Profits before the Needs of the Public – Profit before Private-Public Responsibility.
Decisions made behind closed doors, be they in Ottawa or Queen’s Park, rock our public existence. Our roads(filled with potholes), our healthcare on a respirator, staffing in our public domain mediocre at best, public debt demands a higher infusion of funding, but our politicians are all acting like the cowardly lion. Politicians make the difficult decisions, but do they make the right ones and for what purpose/reason?
While this happens, the average Canadian sleepwalks their way through work and back home, a routine like a trance of ignorance and sleep, unaware of what their public masters are up to these days.
Steven Kaszab
Bradford, Ontario
