Strange that there’s excess death during an ongoing pandemic in the only industrialized nation that doesn’t have socialized health care, right? COVID-19 has exacerbated the problems with the US’s feeble health infrastructure to such a point that we have these countless “unexplainable” deaths.
Sure, lack of socialized healthcare is a huge part of it, but there are other many other compounding factors as well. Lack of sick leave, unhealthy lifestyle, car culture, nutrition, psychological alienation, etc. The pandemic acted as an accelerant feeding on all these festering problems.
Strange that there’s excess death during an ongoing pandemic in the only industrialized nation that doesn’t have socialized health care, right? COVID-19 has exacerbated the problems with the US’s feeble health infrastructure to such a point that we have these countless “unexplainable” deaths.
Sure, lack of socialized healthcare is a huge part of it, but there are other many other compounding factors as well. Lack of sick leave, unhealthy lifestyle, car culture, nutrition, psychological alienation, etc. The pandemic acted as an accelerant feeding on all these festering problems.
Exactly. All the things you mentioned are part of health infrastructure.
reminds me of how Tim Faust uses the term “social determinants of health”