Really not sure where to start…
It is not either/or.
Yes, I agree the Thai road toll is too high.
Yes, I agree the Thai health system, like every other health system in the world is under funded and understaffed.
By your own claim you agree with the above but now there are another almost 1900 people in hospital with many in ICU on ventilators.
ICU nurses are not general nurses, they are the “elite” nurses.
Every patient they care for requires changing PPE.
I’d guess a fair percentage of your road accident deaths are dead before they get to hospital, so don’t place much of a strain on the nursing staff, unlike someone on a ventilator for a week or two…
Its not that Covid is “especially evil” it’s more the point that some of it’s variations can be extremely transmissible and community spread can be exponential and THAT can quickly overwhelm the health system when added to the already thresholded system.
Read back to the morbidity levels of the original Covid strain, it was high, very high.
We’ve been lucky that the variants with higher transmability have had lower morbidity but if the two turn together we will be in deep do do.
Which is why we needed to vaccinate and mask, every transmission carry’s the risk of mutation and the “wrong” mutation takes us back to the big pile of do do I mentioned earlier.