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Originally Posted by u crank
Ok how about this?
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It comes down to logistics. Take a student who just graduated from high school (grade 12). How long would it take for them to become a doctor? Or a surgeon? Or a nurse? You can't force that timeline without bad consequences. What about hospitals and clinics where they can work? How long do they take to build?
With the pandemic, as I've said before, we're already up to our ### in alligators. At its core, its a situation that is out of our control. Warnings were ignored and now we're paying for it. All of us who had a pre-existing condition have been moved to the back of the stove for a while.
Look at it another way: Take the case of Tripler Army Medical Center on Oahu. Its huge. Massively huge. I want to say it has room for 10,000 beds but its been a while and I don't remember the exact number. Its also mostly empty on a normal day, on the order of maybe five patients on a given day.
So, why is Tripler still there? It was built to house casualties of wars in the pacific and Asia.