I’m assuming your Son was in Europe (or maybe Canada) when the accident happened ?
Yes, in the utopia known as Finland. Wait time for critical diagnostics are at their pleasure.
In the US, we berate ourselves for an avg delivery time from the order of 47 minutes, saying we can do better and then have conferences on how to streamline services for faster delivery, then cut those times down some more.
Those same people who attend those conferences in the US really believe it’s better in Europe or Canada.
There isn’t another Country in the world you want to be if you have a medical emergency, need basic care, dental work, break an arm or leg, kids get hurt, etc.
The one area Europe does have better metrics in my perspective and analysis is food.
They really don’t mess around when it comes to food standards, cleanliness, ingredients, quality, and protectionism.
At least in Northern Europe. Their grocery stores are more like Whole Foods, and the prices reflect that as well for the most part.
In the US, our food barely has actual food ingredients in it with all the packages trash, chemicals, artificial sweeteners, HFCS, Red #40, seed oils, plastics, hormones, xenoestrogens, ground up cellulose, maltodextrin, xanthan gum, stabilizers, fillers, and God only knows what else.
I do very much miss European food. I love German food with a nice bratwurst and sauerkraut, peppered chicken, their breads, Finnish rye bread, Russian rye bread, Italian real pasta, French soups, French bread, Scandinavian yogurts, Swiss/German/Belgian/Finnish chocolates, their natural tomatoes, Norwegian salmon.
We do have amazing BBQ though if it’s fresh and done right. Fresh Cal-Mex food is hard to beat in the US as well.
But the stuff in our stores is really bad for the most part, and the primary cause of our health problems.
Looking forward to what RFK Jr. does in that space, but there’s going to be push-back from the big retail, grocery manufacturers of America lobbyists, and the other people who industrialized our food. We have advantages in quantity production for sure, but we’re failing at our capacity to deliver quality.
Yep .
