No problem Greg, we have a National Health system, so everyone gets healthcare, we still pay for Dr visits but it's generally affordable as are prescription drugs. If you get rushed to hospital it's free.
Our restaurant workers live off wages not tips, we don't have a tipping culture here, so they were the same as everyone else.
We had an election around the same time you did, the sitting Govt got a really convincing win because they had saved us from a covid out break, acted with transparency and in doing so life got back to normalish.
We watched what was happening in the US with horror, it was almost as if everything you could do wrong they did.