It's really quite bad here and has been declining almost exponentially, seemingly more rapidly in the last three to four years. There's many reasons why but boiled down could be summarised as overpopulation I guess. Too many people for the available services, just like there's too many people for the planet's resources to sustain. We think we're so clever, humans, and yet we consistently overuse, want more and more and have more focus on easier lives rather than what's right for our lives. Pathetic.
Medical systems around the world will break, it's already happened in less-developed countries and is happening in the more affluent countries. People will deny it, but that's be people who haven't had problems yet and who have no real clue.
You did well with your dad, he was lucky, but many are not so lucky and the second list will get longer and longer as time passes.
That's why I was telling you the other day that I like the work you do in your posts about food and a healthier lifestyle. I wish more people did that. It's something so simple and necessary that I think that's why it's so hard.
COVID already showed how inefficient the health systems are and the worst thing is that that's the everyday life of many.
Oh yeah, I agree the pandemic highlighted a distinct shortfall and it'll happen again, to think otherwise would be naive in the extreme.
Here, they have beds lining corridors as they don't have space on wards, and they leave people sitting in chairs for hours due to a lack of beds...keep in mind this is in brand new hospitals, not old facilities. I don't see anything like what you'd see every day, only a small snapshot, but it's enough to understand that the system is broken. The sad thing is, many other systems we rely on every day are also broken...just ask our Hive friends in South Africa about their power grid for instance.
So many problems bro, so many.