Edward Keenan: Sick children are swamping pediatric ICUs. What will it take to get us to wear a mask?

We're generally a rule-following culture, here in Toronto and in Canada. A comedian I used to see in the 1990s - I think it was the late Eric Tunney - used to riff on this, talking about how when Americans hated a tax they responded by throwing tea in Boston Harbour and launching a revolution and when Canadians at the time hated the GST, they responded by ... well, by paying it.