ICUs are not overrun and have never been close to being overrun and are running at lower levels of usage than previous years to the point the hospitals laid off nurses.
That's not completely true. Some of the ICUs in bigger cities were running over capacity handling kung-flu patients, but those ICUs are in busy hospitals and were almost always over capacity even before the pandemic.
Almost our entire budget goes towards healthcare. Healthcare funding only ever increases. It's never enough because governments are inherently bad at everything.
Meanwhile in a small PHU in Ontario: "Everyone stay home for two days! We just got 48 new cases and can't contract trace them all fast enough! We have to cancel vax clinics to contract trace!"
ICUs are not overrun and have never been close to being overrun and are running at lower levels of usage than previous years to the point the hospitals laid off nurses.
That's not completely true. Some of the ICUs in bigger cities were running over capacity handling kung-flu patients, but those ICUs are in busy hospitals and were almost always over capacity even before the pandemic.
Almost our entire budget goes towards healthcare. Healthcare funding only ever increases. It's never enough because governments are inherently bad at everything.
Meanwhile in a small PHU in Ontario: "Everyone stay home for two days! We just got 48 new cases and can't contract trace them all fast enough! We have to cancel vax clinics to contract trace!"
In-sane.