In TFA from the parent comment, it states that the reduction is directly correlated to not having appropriate staffing; not necessarily a count of physical beds.
I’m not sure what you’re referring to about a “defense in court”, but I also don’t know what the appropriate solution is for that situation. Teaching / training people takes time, and compulsory service at the direction of the government seems like overreach.
How much time does it actually take?
How much money has been burned by lockdowns? We could have had fewer lockdowns and speed-trained a bunch of overpaid, specialised nurses.
This is what I don’t understand. If this thing was really, truly the emergency people keep saying it is… we’d find a way to staff all this stuff. We’d pull people from retirement, turn foot doctors into Covid doctors, let nursing students do stuff… relax the licensing so it works. Then we’d dump truckloads of money on them, give them teslas each Christmas… whatever. Society would figure it out.
We kinda did that in Czech hospitals in the 2020/2021 winter wave - students of medicine even get forced work assignments (possible in emergency state).
Back then there was no vaccine and there was really no way around that (how well people respected the emergency measures is debatable though).
Now the situation is different- we have a vaccine yet only about 60% took it & the medical personnel has go to hell yet again, taking care mainly for those who did not bother to care for their health & of others who they managed to infect. No wonder they are not very enthusiastic about comming for a second round, that was largely avoidable...
I’m not sure what you’re referring to about a “defense in court”, but I also don’t know what the appropriate solution is for that situation. Teaching / training people takes time, and compulsory service at the direction of the government seems like overreach.