The healthcare system and other things that make a society run are not on the brink of collapse, I'd guess.

I would argue that, if the US healthcare system is indeed on the brink of collapse, current community levels of COVID-19 are not the direct cause of that.

Years of mismanagement that were exposed by past peaks of COVID-19 levels? Sure. But that's here to stay even if every COVID virus particle evaporated tomorrow. Current COVID-19 levels are not a causative agent for the healthcare system and other things that make society run being on the brink of collapse.

Plenty of people have claimed those things were on the brink of collapse in any of the last 100 years.

We have a perpetual crisis mentality engineered by a chicken little media.