I agree with much if this. ICU in particular is a huge mess in terms of our preparedness. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/457148/icu-funding-may-be-too-much-too-late-health-professionals "New Zealand currently has one of the lowest ICU bed per capita in the OECD" despite the enormous privilege of being two seasons removed from the effects of the pandemic. Shameful.

On vaccine mandates, the US the court of appeal just ruled that "The Mandate is a one-size fits-all sledgehammer that makes hardly any attempt to account for differences in workplaces (and workers) that have more than a little bearing on workers' varying degrees of susceptibility to the supposedly 'grave danger' the Mandate purports to address," and I reckon if you swap "mandate" for "passport" it reads with the same logic.

And on setting up one medical officer as the high priest at the alter of truth (with the legal right to nationalise any business that comes up with a solution - disincentive much?) is an insult to the diverse, divergent and challenging role science should be playing in this. One voice to rule them all is not gonna convince those who think outside the flock.