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Please stop with the ad hominems here.

That is a relevant point (especially earlier in the pandemic), but it is decidedly not the issue at hand. Hospital beds are one of many issues at the moment. If we had more beds, that wouldn't alleviate the shortage of medical staff, for example. It also wouldn't solve the core issue at hand: a large percentage of the population is not willing to get vaccinated, despite an unimpeachable argument to do so.

That's the result of profit driven capitalism.

If you try to change it, it will be demonized as socialism and govt control. Guess which partisan side is behind both things.

This is whataboutism.

If you have a legitimate response to the original poster, then you should directly argue with their post, not tell them their entire post is invalid because of some other thing.

I live in Canada, so I actually get to pay for these people's healthcare.