The previous resources isn’t the ventilators themselves anymore, it’s hospital beds and healthcare staff. Especially healthcare staff.
We’re almost done with the restrictions here in Denmark. You know why? Because people got vaccinated and because we required proof of a test or vaccination to keep the spread down while we were building herd immunity.
It’ll be rich when all that effort was wasted because some new strain mutates in western countries that were full of adult babies.
Not an anti-vaxxer but I agree with you given we'll prob never get rid of covid, and if we somehow manage to mobilize the entire planet to support one unified lifestyle change in any meaningful timeframe, that'd be an extremely radical event in the course of human history, as far as I understand, so I'm not betting on that either. I think you're right to point out that society needs to support the existence of covid beyond vaccine mandates.
Why are these resources somehow "precious" two years later? Where was the ventilator production? Staffing?
If this were such a serious issue, what have we been doing?