I'll offer a different take. This is simply the human condition. It's extremely difficult to prioritize something that is working. Any effort put into something that isn't perceived broken is effort that is taken away from something else that is perceived as broken.
These cycles happen in just about everything. A perfect example is business security. Nearly every time there's a breach, it's the same pattern: "We take security seriously"....except we kind of put it on the back burner for the past years.
For anyone who played sim city know this. Sometimes youw won't extend power gens until some parts of the city glowing with electricity icon. And to optimize budget we like to have power gens to be just slightly overproduced than consumption.
>We could very easily fix it by applying old recipes that worked well yesterday but nobody (with the power to) wants to fix it.
There are urgency services that are literally closing due to lack of personal, right now. Even in major cities. An the government is now considering to open a reflection on reintegrating thousands of people that were laid off (not fired but no longer paid) as they didn’t consent to be vaccinated.
So yes, there are some levers government can turn to instantly make situation a bit less terrible. But this will not be enough to make situation sound. No one want to go to work for miserable wages in awful conditions that are promised to be degraded constantly for what decades of data allows to forecast. And you don’t form new doctors, nurses and so on over the course of a night, not even speaking about what makes a group of trained individuals becoming an efficient team.
> An the government is now considering to open a reflection on reintegrating thousands of people that were laid off (not fired but no longer paid) as they didn’t consent to be vaccinated.
These cycles happen in just about everything. A perfect example is business security. Nearly every time there's a breach, it's the same pattern: "We take security seriously"....except we kind of put it on the back burner for the past years.