One aspect that people seem to be ignoring with the whole 'healthcare capacity' argument is the mental health of the healthcare workers. The capacity everyone t

One aspect that people seem to be ignoring with the whole 'healthcare capacity' argument is the mental health of the healthcare workers. The capacity everyone talks about is IMO the acute capacity, not really the chronic sustained capacity. That's because just like in a war, it isn't realistic to expect the frontline soldiers to stay in combat for longer than weeks at a time before they start to exhibit PTSD and their effectiveness begins to drop. Unless we have large reserves of doctors and nurses to rotate in and out I think we should be very careful not to take them for granted.