Hospital system overwhelmed

[The Grand Nudger]

When emergency conditions arise emergency contingencies are put into action. We are seeing it with covid. And yes it's not pleasant. But to say it could have been avoided if we had only ....................... I'm not buying it.

Some percentage of it could have been avoided had we not had to rapidly scramble to build capacity and better distribute capacity?  Some part of it could have been avoided if we ghosted some fraction of that in that event?

You're not buying that?  Cmon, that's what we did, and covid overwhelmed that too.  So we...know...that going forward, we need at least marginally higher numbers. Imagine how many of our models failed to predict death cult vaccine hesitancy, lol. Guess we might want to model for that too, going forward. Planning for the healthcare of a nation isn't about uncertainty or ideology, but the practical realities of getting sick people into beds watched over by trained professionals at that very moment - all of which are emergencies..by definition and circumstance. Maybe for you and I, thinking of it like this could help. That extended contingency plan, is the cost of doing business. Everyone involved in our covid response should be fired, for starters..but also pilloried and sent to a fucking salt mine somewhere unable to secure gainful employment in any capacity where competence is required.

When this is all over, covid will have been the united states greatest enemy, and we have objectively failed in it's face. Think about this conversation we're having, and how ludicrous it is to couch it in terms of unpredictability and the costs of unpredictable and the futility of unpredictability. This isn't the first wave.......march of dimes would fail today.