Thats a good point, but the favourite whipping boy of most “1st world nations” (and I use that term loosely.) is the Health service when it comes to making budget cuts.
Often the health system has no depth to it and policy makers have no vision, deeming it adequate that the system can meet typical requirements. But when a disaster strikes the health service is stretched to breaking point because it doesn’t have the infrastructure to cope.
Here it is again. You dance rhetorically with herd immunity. But that path has been criticized by epidemiologists again and again. The only way to achieve herd immunity without going through millions of unnecessary deaths is to hold the line of slowing the spread until a vaccine is developed and deployed, or reaching the point where there is near-complete testing and tracing.
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And again, I didn’t say anything about herd immunity. We are no closer to near-complete testing and tracing than we are to a vaccine, meanwhile even Norway, New Zealand, and South Korea are opening up again. And the agreement between epidemiologists over what the models say is far from complete.
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