The main reason is that all of the lockdown and curfew stuff was 2 years back now! Most people have just signed out of the covid discussion and are not doing any mitigation. The "psychotic episode" (your words) ended in like... mid-2021. Why is it all falling apart now?
We are mid-2022. Hospitals are still a mess worldwide, because _they are all still getting a sickness that knocks people on their feet for a couple of days to a week_. People whose bodies get hit by this end up being weaker and more susceptible to other issues. Seems pretty simple!
That is not simple at all, and really far-fetched. Lockdown and inactivity won’t turn a fit human being into a diabetic obese and kill them in 2 years.
There are much more compelling explanations (again, mis-funding, burn-out, decay due to malice or incompetence, amongst others). The problems were plain to see before COVID. The pandemic just pushed the system closer to the edge.
It’s also worth mentioning that certain fatalities went down as a result of the response.
Or even a simpler one: The discouragement from doing sports that was lockdowns and curfews, encouraged asthma, obesity, breathing interior paints too much, couch potating, mental breakdowns, social isolation, lack of parties, lack of pleasure in life, looping on negative thoughts, eating butter and sugars by buttloads, and not being able to see doctors when needed. Also, loss of work, stress of uncertainty, requirement to change careers for hospitality people.
It’s incredible how much we neglected humans during this whole “let’s protect humans from THAT ONE DISEASE” psychotic episode.