> Both of those things (medicine and hospitals) are limited by money and physical infrastructure right now.
We are spending stupid amounts of money on healthcare right now. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of our inflation problems build up from the amount of resources we are redirecting into healthcare.
> It's like we just said "get vaxxed and the pandemic ends" over and over and enough people actually believed that and in the meantime we did nothing to solve production issues or build more hospital beds.
We underestimated how many people would not want to get vaxxed, and how many don't want to wear face masks, how many idiot governors don't want to take responsibility for their states. But ya, if this gets endemic, we will live on, but we will also pay the price for that.
Vaccines and masks don't prevent all the other health ailments that might require medical attention (and someone can still get a breakthrough case, even though it is less likely, and in that case less likely to need intervention).
We all pay the price when treatment is delayed or denied because the hospital is overflowing with COVID patients. Or because all our medical staff have quit because society feels they should bear unlimited amounts of trauma.
> Both of those things (medicine and hospitals) are limited by money and physical infrastructure right now.
We are spending stupid amounts of money on healthcare right now. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of our inflation problems build up from the amount of resources we are redirecting into healthcare.
> It's like we just said "get vaxxed and the pandemic ends" over and over and enough people actually believed that and in the meantime we did nothing to solve production issues or build more hospital beds.
We underestimated how many people would not want to get vaxxed, and how many don't want to wear face masks, how many idiot governors don't want to take responsibility for their states. But ya, if this gets endemic, we will live on, but we will also pay the price for that.