Just wanted to pick away at this a bit:
But no not really. Yes there is huge collateral damage to other services - but the NHS is not at all 'just focusing' on Covid, but rather, trying to keep up with an endless series of things to juggle in the air while dealing with Covid. Yes it's prioritising Covid - and arguably too extremely - but it has not at all just stopped other things. (I'm all too aware of the cases of serious, life-threatening diseases like i.e. cancer having the ideal or 'normal routine' treatments delayed or suspended altogether - and I don't discount it.) But honestly, to me, it's kind of miraculous that at a very basic level the NHS is still holding the line on minimum treatments (mostly) for other serious, life-threatening stuff and emergencies. A&Es are having a horrendous time but road accident victims are still getting saved. Transplants and chemo are still going on (for most, I accept not all.). Older people are still getting their flu jabs as well as the lucky few who've got the Covid vaccine so far. GP surgeries are still seeing people. The knock-on effects of Covid-fighting measures are really serious and really negative but plenty of other services/campaigns are still there. I think sometimes the exaggeration that 'anything that's not Covid is cancelled' is used as a strawman to argue against sensible - if extremely anguishing - triage. Triage is horrible. But that's a mismanaged pandemic for you. Take some tough, unpopular repressive decisions early on and a country doesn't have to do as much triage-ing later.