Have you seen what’s going on in England?
The Minister of Health told the British they had to learn to live with the virus.
“The restrictions on our freedom should only intervene as a last resort, said the minister in an interview, because the confinements entail a huge social and economic cost …”
Instead of tightening the screws even more on its citizens, England is aiming to achieve some sort of herd immunity through vaccination and massive screening.
We protect the most vulnerable, but we allow the people who are least at risk of ending up in the hospital to live a more or less normal life.
A SICK HEALTH SYSTEM
During this time, here, we close everything for everyone.
And we are imposing the most extreme of measures, which should only be adopted as a last resort, which is to say a second curfew.
People are told to burrow into their basements, chomp and mop up instead of facing this variant which, yes, is more contagious, but is less dangerous.
Why ?
For a simple reason: because our health care system is sick.
Precarious.
Hyper fragile.
And that does not date from the pandemic. It’s been like this for years.
In fact, we are reaping what years of neglect have sown.
A friend of mine is a medical specialist. He has already worked in Switzerland.
There, he told me, the health care system is … healthy.
Like any health care system should be.
Hundreds of people (mostly unvaccinated) collect themselves at the hospital because they caught the Omicron variant?
It’s not panic.
The system is able to take the blow and does not threaten to fart, like ours.
Why ? Because in Switzerland, health workers, do you want some?
They trained by the ton.
Ten percent of healthcare workers are left out after being infected?
No problem, there are so many doctors and nurses out there that the system can still work anyway.
FROM NIAISEUX NIAISAGE
This is a good health system.
A system that is able to function even if a crisis arises.
But here it is not like that.
Why ? Because we did not foresee that a crisis could break out one day.
We manage on a day-to-day basis and on a small weekly basis.
Look at the aging of the population.
Our demographers have sounded the alarm for decades: the population of Quebec is aging at high speed, this will put great pressure on the health system, blah blah.
What did we do?
Nothing.
We continued to build sandcastles on the beach as a monstrous wave that could be seen coming from far away approached …
No wonder we are in the chnoute up to the neck.
We fooled around on masks, ventilation, screening, screening, the third dose …
Result: we have to go back and close everything.
Discouraging.