I remember some friends working in intensive care during the pandemic, I'll never forget their facial expressions after these 24hr shifts... I really wish someone would come up with a better way to do this
And that's the main reason why lock downs extended so far later than they should have. Our hospitals run at 120% during normal times; during abnormal times they're stretched to the breaking point. Our small local hospital had two nurse suicides during the pandemic. Not early in the pandemic, but well after vaccines were available.
Our societies should have expanded their healthcare capacity afterwards and maintained it to a high standard, but unfortunately it sounds like the political classes continue to treat healthcare as a cost centre that they can starve or pull money from for other projects.
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Those nurses saved many people! It was worth it!
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We all want more and better health services, but our economies do not have infinite resources.
And few people are reasonable about restrictions because how do we cost life or health?
Death is predictable, our responses are unreasonable.