eugyppius

You would have thought... Needs to be reinforced that locking down the whole of society for several months is not actually a normal or sane way of dealing with hospital capacity issues. Especially when those issues are mostly imaginary

This was the whole scandal with Cuomo and the US Navy ship.

It was refused because it wasn't really needed. There were always enough beds and doctors (cc: tiktok nurses dancing)

In Canada, medical spokespeople declare that "it's not as simple as adding beds, we need trained staff too"—but this is never followed by an indication that such staff are being urgently obtained or trained. We're sacrificing our freedoms so the system can avoid having to adapt.

We have the same statements here. in war they can make trained medics and trained pilots in a few months. We have boatloads of doctors in less-than-urgent specialties, cosmetic, etc., who could be drafted into new roles as battle surgeons. Nobody bothers or cares.