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Originally Posted by 10023

America has excellent healthcare. It’s just expensive.

The UK literally does not have sufficient (or modern enough) hospitals, or enough nurses, to deal with high rates of hospitalisation. This isn’t just a Covid issue, it’s almost every winter flu season. See: https://www.theguardian.com/society/...-overstretched

And people aren’t getting Covid in restaurants, bars and gyms. Offices were responsible for more cases than all of those last fall, and the majority of cases by far are occurring in people’s homes. Just as in the US, there is media coverage of higher rates of infection in minority communities, but this is mostly because big South Asian families have 14 people over for Sunday lunch and they all get Covid.

If anything, the fact that basic NHS healthcare is free further reduces the disincentive to take risks created by the prospect of huge medical bills.

People absolutely are getting COVID in restaurants, bars, and gyms. Especially bars and gyms, each of which have documented cases of super spreader activity.