MAA, I'd agree with you on that, except that we need to keep another factor in mind. That is, the covid lockdowns and restrictions darn near put the health care industry out of business in 2020-21. Many 'elective' surgeries (major cash cow for most facilities) postponed or cancelled; screening procedures the same; basically anyone who could avoid going to a medical facility did, and often to their detriment. The cash the hospitals got from the feds for 'treating' the coof was what kept them alive. I'm not happy about them doing what they did but another factor also must be considered: once you accept fed money (a few doctors don't, but all facilities of any size do) then you are bound to follow the 'approved protocols' from the feds. For the coof, that was stay home until you can't breathe on your own, then come in and be put on a ventilator and given run-death-is-near. That was all that was approved. A few doctors said to heck with that and did what they thought best, but it was an uphill struggle for them. Basically the feds put the whole health-care industry (the largest single industry in the USA last I heard) in a pickle of the first magnitude. We need to place the blame where it truly belongs: around the necks of Fauci and his minions. They knew darn well what they were doing; they knew what the consequences were; and they did it anyway. The hospitals and doctors were collateral damage, as was every citizen of every country who followed the same path.