So when it comes to cars, what you're saying is that "some of you will die, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make". Am I reading that correctly?
PS: The above is obvious sarcasm. See how ridiculous bad risk-management calculations sound?
> Additionally society cannot live with hospitals operating at reduced capacity because of COVID overflow.
Color me skeptical about the severity of this risk for 2 big reasons.
1) Look at actions, not words. Think about how governors and hospitals are acting. If there was a genuine fear of the hospitals collapsing, they'd be putting out daily public service announcements begging for retired doctors, people with any medical training whatsoever, or even random nuns to come and volunteer to tend to the sick and dying. Instead they're mass-firing healthy "health care heroes" who refuse to get a vaccine. Is that the act of people who are genuinely concerned about overwhelming the health care system?
2) This sensationalism has been happening every cold and flu season: see pic-related. Hospitals are designed to perpetually run at close to full capacity for financial reasons. https://i.imgur.com/50eqkXq.jpg
Point #1 government is doing everything they can to prevent that collapse scenario. I'd need to understand more about the machinations of the hospital policies you mentioned. No link to your sources, but I imagine it's not as black and white as you are suggesting.
I find it interesting that some people are like "it's not that bad, why do we need these restrictions? Everything is functioning, what's the problem?"
The thing is "it's not that bad" because of all the restrictions and vaccines. If we did nothing hospitals would absolutely be fucked and people would be dying in the halls.
Model me a world where we didn't bother with masks and other measures, then let's talk.
Here's a few American, Canadian, and European news stories detailing similar sentiments from well before the Covid mass hysteria programming.
https://www.westernjournal.com/2018-flu-bad-hospitals-treati...
https://www.texastribune.org/2018/01/11/flu-levels-rise-texa...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-flu-idUSBRE9080WD2013...
https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/patient-flow/2-healthc...
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/18/nyregion/full-emergency-r...
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jan-09-mn-52273...
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/health-headlines/hospitals-ove...
https://www.france24.com/en/20170111-french-hospitals-cancel...
> government is doing everything they can to prevent that collapse scenario.
Deeds show intent better than empty words.
If they were genuinely concerned about the healthcare system collapsing due to a flood of sick people, they would be screaming daily begging for more health care workers: not firing healthy workers to have Covid positive health-care workers work.
Citations:
https://abc7.com/asymptomatic-california-health-care-workers...
https://afn.net/medical-health/2022/01/12/jab-or-job-califor...
Society has been sold a false bill of goods.