Because in lots of countries all over the world, hospitals are still at or over capacity, making live miserable for those lying there, waiting to get there for other treatments and last but not least, for those working under enormous stress there.
2) If there are clear answers to #1, why in tarnation isn't our response, "OK, we need to improve the health care systems in these marginalized communities?" Why instead would we even consider repeating the failed, class-based horizontal interdiction efforts which have terrorized these same communities and cut them off from their centers of support (eg, schools)?
https://www.scotsman.com/health/coronavirus/covid-scotland-s...
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/nov/26/late-diagnos...
2) Because you can't improve health care systems within a short time frame. People are quitting their health care jobs in Europe in big numbers due to being overworked due to the pandemic.
2) Yes you absolutely can; it has been done with great success many times in epidemics, including this one. Moreover, longer-term improvements to health care remain an imperative if indeed a completely predictable respiratory pathogen can so easily overwhelm capacity in marginalized communities.
It’s a mix of covid and antivaxx philosophy though, not just covid, some doctors and nurses who haven’t vaccinated have been suspended and it’s hard to find replacements right now.
https://www.rtbf.be/info/societe/detail_coronavirus-des-hopi...
> Not all hospitals are there yet, but all are tearing their hair out to deal with the situation because it is such a headache. A Chinese puzzle, or a tetris, except that it is not a game. “We have already been making an effort to smooth out the programming for a few weeks,” explains Fabrice Chariot, anesthesiologist, and coordinator of the operating room of the CHR of the Citadel, to avoid having too many operations on the same day. We are now starting to postpone cases. ”
> 2) If there are clear answers to #1, why in tarnation isn't our response, "OK, we need to improve the health care systems in these marginalized communities?" Why instead would we even consider repeating the failed, class-based horizontal interdiction efforts which have terrorized these same communities and cut them off from their centers of support (eg, schools)?
What ?