https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/unmitigated-covid-is-overwhelming
"There’s no doubt about it, public health systems everywhere are underfunded.
Since neoliberalism grabbed the wheel of economic policy in the 1980s, there’s
hardly a nation on Earth that hasn’t engaged in budget cuts to public services.
This austerity was the backdrop into which the COVID-19 bomb landed.
Unsurprisingly, healthcare systems already in crisis struggled to handle the
influx of patients. Unsurprisingly, hospitals with already strained capacity
found COVID pushing them past the breaking point. Unsurprisingly, already
understaffed hospitals struggled even more as workers went out sick short-term,
long-term, and even died in the early waves.
Now, according to our world leaders, COVID is over. We’re back to normal! So
normal, in fact, that reporters from every corner of the globe keep running the
same article, week after week, country after country: gee, why are the ERs so
overwhelmed?"
Via Violet Blue’s
Pandemic Roundup: March 7, 2024
https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-99907491
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
