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The measures we're discussing here are intended to help avoid collapse of hospitals due to overload and shortage of staff. A collapse would affect young people too: they couldn't get treatment. Some of them would die as a result. We're talking about a known-effective solution; undisputed within the medical community. The measures are also temporary.

Compare this to the measures we could (and should) bring to bear on the youth problems you mention: The solutions are controversial, often need years to ramp up, with huge costs indefinitely. This is not to say these solutions should not be attempted! Just that you are comparing a temporary hack in a crisis to long-standing problems.

Knowing the inhabitants of a burning building are cancer patients, would that affect your decision to evacuate? After all, you could invest the evacuation effort into treatment instead! And the fire might turn out not so bad, right?