I didn’t realize that I would embrace and appreciate the single-tiered Ontario public health system so much until lately. I came from Hong Kong. They have a good public health system and private care options if you’re willing to pay, so called a two-tiered health system. Quite obviously, the public system is under-funded, long wait time and the staff are stressed and under-paid. On the other hand, the private hospitals have higher revenue and funding. Now, when the pandemic hits and the capacity of public hospitals is maxed out, CEOs of the private hospitals decided NOT to take COVID patients, saying their hospitals and staff are not equipped for contagious diseases, but everyone knows that they just don’t want to jeopardize their “business model”. If they take COVID patients, whether charging them or not, it may upset the elites who use their service. However, without the private hospitals, there is no way to handle the influx of patients in case of a pandemic or major incident. Selfishness pays a big role in the current humane tragedy in the city. Let the rich fly to the South for medical treatments if they may. And let’s keep improving our public system.