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You can't simply increase hospital staff - these are highly trained people. That's an investment that takes years to pay off. Encouraging social distancing doesn't work, people are tired of it and many either didn't care in the first place or don't care now that they are fully vaccinated.

Many western countries messed up big time by not investing enough into their health care systems or into properly educating their population. So now they're out of options.