Would love to see the social/political reaction in the USA if the government announced it was planning to reduce pressure on the health system so it could cope better with C19 by a full universal ban of Alcohol.
That would be the immediate end of the Biden presidency right there.
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- Ban smoking
- Ban alcohol
- Ban sugar
All of these are legacy issues, you smoke now, you get ill in X years time. Even if you had the political capital to do all of the above, none of them will have much if any impact by this winter.
The point is you dont want lots of extra people all turning up at hospital in a relatively short time frame, its very hard for systems to plan and have capacity on tap. In the UK we built a lot of extra bed space for last winter, then it turned out we could hardly use any of it because we did not have enough nurses to staff the beds, the extra nurses that were recruited were not enough to cover nurses/doctors going off ill with C19.
This winter there is very likely to be a bad flu season because mitigations for C19 are also mitigations for flu and the removal of those mitigations will probably mean flu coming back with a vengeance.
So when vaccinations for Children are discussed its because policy planners are worried about stress on the health care system this winter, none of the things you propose work within a time scale to reduce health care system pressure in any significant way by this winter.