As
Rruuff Day mentions, our hospitals in Alberta tell a vastly different story. I've a doctor in the family who's working in the hospitals in Edmonton now. He's recently become "totally fed up" and is now more vocal to those he encounters in the hospitals that aren't vaccinated...telling them there's no excuse for a mostly preventible disease. He describes ICU's that are full of COVID patients where more than 90% of them have no vaccinations and the patients are typically age 20 to 40. They are draining our healthcare resources, bumping spots for other patients and causing surgeries to be cancelled. I'm hearing of people (for example) on a wait list for a replacement hip and after waiting 6 months...they're now bumped and told it will likely be another 6 months (minimum). These people are limping around in ++pain and can't get relief. Then expand that for knee and other surgeries. Not fun for those people.
But hey, that's SOMEONE ELSE so why worry about THEM.
And after all, people who smoke and consume drugs/alcohol to excess...they drain our healthcare system too. And none of them are deprived of their freedom to choose to follow that behaviour. [Oh wait, NONE of them can infect others with their "disease" and keep it alive to morph into other variants...but I digress.]
So yes, let's focus on "
ME", reject "modern medicine" (that for the most part eradicated measles, polio, etc.), point to that same science/medicine as being incompetent when it comes to COVID-19 since it should be 100% all-knowing in the face of a
new disease and when it doesn't meet a standard of perfection and stumbles from time to time, let's not be patient but rather quickly reject it as "junk science"...and turn to other tried and true remedies that are "natural" or otherwise are somehow known to work (even though they've never been tried before for this new disease) or let's listen to "experts" who have the true "scientifically proven" statistics and KNOW it's all a government conspiracy to deprive people of their freedoms, after all the world IS truly flat and the photos purportedly taken from space of our planet are entirely fabricated, as are most other things that our government tells us...
Tell that to the doctor in my family who sees what's really happening in our hospitals and doesn't need anyone (government trusting or anti-government) to tell him what's going on, since he's living with it every day. My 2 cents.