You're right, but there's a difference between "it's not worth spending millions on an operation to slightly improve an unimportant part of someone's little fin

You're right, but there's a difference between "it's not worth spending millions on an operation to slightly improve an unimportant part of someone's little finger" and "I have two people who will die if I can't treat them, and due to limited staff/hospital space one of them isn't being sent for treatment". So yes, it's not binary between normally being infinate and now not, but it's also a bit too reductive to make that point without also being clear that Covid has caused more and worse triaging than usual. (But someone needed to make your portion of that point and you did it much better than I could have, so thanks!)