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I often wonder why the SSPX didn’t build traditional Catholic hospitals.  In 50 plus years they should have build more chapels.  

I often wonder why the SSPX didn’t build traditional Catholic hospitals.  In 50 plus years they should have build more chapels. 

Because that was not the main purpose of the Society. It was to preserve the Faith by preserving the priesthood.  I agree that more chapels should have been opened in all that time. Perhaps that didn’t happen because of the fewness of the faithful, IOW, the faithful aren’t that faithful!  If “smells and bells” were all they wanted, then they had diocesan Latin Mass, or ICK, FSSP.  
The SSPX has s few schools here and there. With a few exceptions, most of the schools amounted to a handful of children from a few families that couldn’t get firmly established.  Reason?  Lack of qualified teachers willing or able to put in 60+ hour weeks for perhaps gas money and lunch.  To run a quality school without teaching sisters and brothers and a couple of priests, whose stated apostolate is to teach the young is just not possible. Which parents can drive an hour or more there and back five days per week, six counting Sundays, maybe seven on first Fridays and Saturdays?  Most who attend SSPX, SSPV, or Resistance chapels already make large sacrifices driving long distances to Mass every week.  
Running a small school is difficult enough.
Now think of running a hospital.  Even if enough traditional Catholics were found to work there, they’d be beholden to the crazy laws and nightmarish bureaucracy like all the other hospitals. If the laws were ignored, how long would they last before getting shut down by the police?  I’m afraid the time of the Church running large public apostolates like hospitals, nursing homes and schools has passed. Given the scarcity of faithful and the nearness of Christ’s return, we ought to focus our efforts on prayer and penance.

The time has come to avoid the medical industry and self-treat.

I know a trad Catholic guy in the Boston, MA area who has been doing this for years.  It sounds like a no-brainer but in practice it isn't going to be that easy.  He recently came down with what he believes to be covid (he said he was never so sick in his life) and he got to the point where he was resigned to dying of this thing.  He couldn't imagine how he could recover.  He lives alone and won't even take over-the-counter meds.  I'm not sure if he would refuse vitamins but he isn't into that stuff either.  So he was alone in his apartment thinking he was going to die right there in bed.  How many people can handle that?  Probably not too many.  But one of his friends found out he was sick and started helping him.  He is not fully recovered yet but it looks like he is going to be OK.

I think he would be willing to have a broken bone set or a cut stitched as long as it doesn't require taking any drugs.  I think the Seventh Day Adventists have a similar position with regard to modern medicine.  I think it is a great idea but how realistic is it?  How many people have what it takes to refuse medicine when undergoing intense suffering?