Or anything like that. It's an emergency, right? So what about people in medical school who have yet to be licensed? Grab them and have them do stuff. Retired doctors? Go get them. Whatever. It's an emergency. Get creative. You don't need things perfect. You need things to work. It's an emergency. Every second you aren't focused on solving overwhelmed healthcare is a second you are stealing from people through lockdowns.
I really don't understand why people are completely incapable of using their imagination to solve "hospitals over capacity". The only thing I can think of is perhaps hospitals have never actually been overwhelmed because if they were... we'd have fixed the problem already.
"So what about people in medical school who have yet to be licensed? Grab them and have them do stuff. Retired doctors? Go get them. Whatever. It's an emergency. Get creative"
Would you prefer a student, or a seasoned doctor to decide on you - if you are in a critical condition in the hospital?
But sure, I would take any advanced med student over being ignored while in need of care.
And since this is not rocket science, here in germany all the retired doctors, trained military medic, ... have been registered and contacted in the beginning - to be ready if needed, but as far as I know, it was not made use of (much?).
And YES. It should have been invested massivly in healthcare in the beginning of the crisis and it was. But mainly just in infrastructure it seems. Or high level corruption.
Because today there are de facto fewer hospital beds avaiable, than in the beginning - because apparently it was not invested enough in the people. The ordinary health workers. They are leaving burned out.
For a short amount of time, you can enlist lots of reserve stuff so to say. But not for years.
It’s an emergency, remember?. It doesn’t need to be perfect. It’s an emergency, remember?
Find ways to make it work. Fire the naysayers. Figure it out.
Or alternately accept there never was a problem with healthcare capacity because if there was, we’d have demanded it to be fixed already. Because any reasonable person can state it can and should be fixable. Problem is too many people lost their mind and forgot what it meant to be reasonable.
I really don't understand why people are completely incapable of using their imagination to solve "hospitals over capacity". The only thing I can think of is perhaps hospitals have never actually been overwhelmed because if they were... we'd have fixed the problem already.