I think I agree with a few caveats. I'm primarily interested in psychology and the West has a particular attitude towards wellness and medicine. Like you said it's very good at prescribing a solution rather than thinking about resolving the problem more holisitically. I despair that the answer to depression seems to be 'take a pill' rather than look at the surrounding antecedents. The same is true with obesity, likely linked in a lot of cases to poor mental health and paucity of choice.

Having said that, I don't believe in throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Advancements in medical science have helped resolve issues around Smallpox, Polio and some fairly nasty diseases that have plagued humanity for a while. This isn't the same as medicine necessarily, instead a product of scientific discovery and scientific methodology. Sailors worked out they wouldn't get scurvy if they ate fruit, science told them why - and we throw that away at our peril.

I don't trust my individual doctor on the vacinne, nor do I trust any individual company that promises a wonder-solution. But I do trust the scientific method, particularly if and when it's applied globally. That's edpidemiologists and virologists testing each other's work looking for the flaws. They might disagree about the effectiveness of particular things - masks being one of them. I don't see the harm in wearing one - but I don't have COPD, and perhaps I may feel differently if I do.

The figures of people in hospital with Covid have shown a high prevalence of the unvaccinated above those who have had the vaccinne. Vaccine might not be the only solution, and I think there's plenty that can and should be done on an individual level - but for the time being, it seemingly offers the best defence.