[disgruntledphd2]

> while we might have built new hospitals in a parallel universe, in this one we really don't want to saturate the beds (again).

Unfortunately, while hospitals can be built, you can't train enough medical professionals to staff the hospital in two years.

More generally, rather like nobody expects the Spanish inquisition, no health care system can cope with a global pandemic. We'd need to 10x health care capacity, most of which would sit unused for most of the time.