As I believe I've mentioned, I'm on tour with a lot of English, Australian and Canadian people, and so I can't help but notice some interesting differences between our countries. Here's one I find especially interesting: When someone on the tour from any of these countries gets sick, say with an abscessed tooth or strep throat or something, they go to a doctor and get treatment. If somebody, for instance me, from the US gets sick, we do not. We mostly take lots of vitamins, get lots of sleep, and hope it goes away. If they get sick, they might have to pay a user fee and deal with some annoying red tape. If I get sick, I'm pretty much fucked.
I have tried to explain this to many of my co-fringers over the last week, as I've been getting over a little bout of something or another; I can't say for sure if it's a cold or the flu or SARS or what, because of course that would require a doctor's diagnosis. When I explain to a Canadian that I don't currently have medical coverage and that in fact very few people in my line of work in the States do, I get a sympathetic look from them, as if to say "Yes, but I'm sure your government bought some very nice bullets with the money they saved by not providing you with any."
Posted by flamingbanjo at August 19, 2004 01:14 PMThere's actually a bullet shortage:
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=1265953&date=19910213&query=bullet+shortage
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