Not necessarily. There is always the option of triaging COVID victims into palliative care (which can be very fast and administered even by non-specialist personnel) and away from intensive care. While that has never been official policy due to the political optics, there have been claims that it was done on a hospital-by-hospital basis in Italy and Sweden for elderly victims. If the voting public were clearly informed that it was an option they could choose as an alternative to lockdowns, it may well have seen significant support from the population.
You think the public would have shown significant support for “just let the infected die”?
And you can add Canada to that list of countries that have had to do that, by the way. Like the others you mention it’s been a forced decision due to the healthcare system becoming overwhelmed.
The public may not have significantly supported that in the first lockdown last year, but there apparently has been support in later waves. In my country during the third wave, the health minister has pleaded that hospitals are being overwhelmed, yet at the same time the data he’s getting from mobile operators show that the public has returned to 2019-levels of mobility. The broad public, not just some outliers unwilling to observe the lockdown. The general attitude now seems to be that vaccination has arrived, so restrictions are no longer appropriate, and if you die before you can get vaccinated, tough luck.
Not necessarily. There is always the option of triaging COVID victims into palliative care (which can be very fast and administered even by non-specialist personnel) and away from intensive care. While that has never been official policy due to the political optics, there have been claims that it was done on a hospital-by-hospital basis in Italy and Sweden for elderly victims. If the voting public were clearly informed that it was an option they could choose as an alternative to lockdowns, it may well have seen significant support from the population.