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I remember lots of language about flatten the curve until genetic drift, vaccines, and herd immunity kicked in. By the time vaccines rolled out to gen pop it was effectively over, now politicians and public health officials not reopening in a timely fashion is a problem, but it has little to do with the actual medicine and is mostly purity spirals etc.
OK I guess -- but those purity spirals were literally being driven by the people in charge of the healthcare system. Also individual doctors to some extent, although dissenters did face serious consequences from the people in charge of the healthcare system if they spoke publicly, so some people could maybe be considered victims. (chickenshit ones, but I have some sympathy)
So that is my stance: until the people who did this (ie. the people in charge of the healthcare system apologize and give some credible indication that they won't do it again, I will not only not believe and/or comply with anything they say, but will actively oppose them. If that means that the tree of liberty gets watered with the blood of some 85 y.o.'s with multiple myleoma and Parkinsons, it's sad -- but so be it.
The people in charge of the healthcare system are not politicians, they are the administrative state, both within medicine but also just the dems and their media apparatus etc.
Individual doctors were not in charge and just got their marching orders and beliefs via download as per usual.
Healthcare is rotted just like everything else but those tendrils are from elsewhere.
They tend to also be some form of doctor themselves though -- you can add "bring back medical ethics" to "I want an apology" if you like -- throw a pony on the list, I like ponies.
Hospitals aren't really run by doctors anymore, this is partly by law and partly by incentive (other types of staff, like nurses can increase income by moving into admin but doctors in the U.S. usually make less). Physicians can't own hospitals, and a lot of places will have an on paper doctor who is in charge of something as a medical director or whatever but doesn't actually run anything and exists mostly as a liability sponge.
Public health stuff is its own specialty and you can cast them into the fire. There are a few exceptions like Fauci but as is usual with a lot of doctor stuff we aren't really responsible for most problems.
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