There's 2 movies on 1 screen when it comes to the actual stats surrounding Covid-19, so I'm not going to argue that with you.
I'll just ask you about what's serving as the "control groups". How are, say, Amish Country PA and Florida doing? Forget any stats about "cases" you can come up with for a moment: how are normal peoples' actual lives going in places where masks and most preventative measures are less common? Are people living their lives more or less normally, or are these regions wastelands of disease and death with survivors roaming the streets begging for medical attention?
Forget stats about cases in order to understand stats on cases in areas with fewer preventative measures? What kind of crazy is that?
If you do care to look at stats on the Amish community there is this paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34117598/
And I think we all know how Florida is doing: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article25729082...
I don't know how else to understand COVID impact without data and factual, meaningful statistics.
Life in these places is more or less the same as it always has been, other than it passing the peak of cold season. People go out without forced masks and having to show their medical histories to enter buildings. Yet these places haven't collapsed. Why not?
If the Covid narrative that we had to mask up everywhere and check your papers to ensure safety or society would collapse is accurate, why is this "control group" (for lack of a better term) not collapsing?
We're fucked.
We've had very high rates of death, and we've destroyed our economy.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the UK implemented vaccine and mask mandates?
None of your sources talk about hospitals being "designed" to run at full capacity for profit. Canadian, UK, and most other EU hospitals don't run for profit, so that leaves the US. I doubt you'll find a medical director that claims the way to maximize profit is to design a hospital that is on the edge of meltdown every flu season.
"they would be screaming daily begging for more health care workers"
Ahem:
https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20210812/hospitals-struggle-...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-07/hospitals...
https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/hospitals-innovate-amid-d...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/staff-shortages-hospit...
There are many more sources citing hospitals struggling to find nurses, your last two citations demonstrate how desperate hospitals are by re-hiring folk who refuse to get vaccinated or are asymptomatic. How desperate do you have to be to put patients at risk of getting infected from their health care worker? I mean talk about rock and a hard place, that's a fucked up position to have to be in and shows that there are very few other avenues to go down.