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Training doctors and nurses takes a while. And there's less them now before COVID began - they (especially nurses) are overworked, underpaid, people treat them

by glogla 5y ago

Training doctors and nurses takes a while. And there's less them now before COVID began - they (especially nurses) are overworked, underpaid, people treat them horribly and COVID killed a lot of them.

CapricornNoble 5y ago
"Perfect is the enemy of good enough" I'm not sure why we aren't implementing wartime-style emergency measures for our Human Resources Management. The Army can produce Combat Medics in 4 months. The Navy produces Hospital Corpsmen in 5 months. Take all that money wasted on the fraud-prone Paycheck Protection Program and offer $200,000/yr salaries for anyone who signs a 3-year minimum contract to serve as an Enlisted Emergency Hospitalman in the United States Public Health Service (which currently lacks enlisted ranks). Leverage the existing military schools for training infrastructure. The resultant Hospitalmen should have enough basic healthcare training to take some of the burden for menial tasks off of the experienced nurses, effectively growing (or at least maintaining) our national healthcare capacity. We don't seem to be taking a "whole of government" approach to solving this emergency. A lot of assets are being left untapped, IMO.
- croes 5y ago
  This doesn't change the shortage of trained nurses. The ICU staff is already completely shifted to the ICUs because the patients need constant surveillance. We don't need replacement for standard nurses we need more ICU specialist best with experience. No money in the world can buy missed time in the past.
- moistly 5y ago
  All that, versus spending twenty bucks a dose. Are you sure you’re not sure why? I hope you aren’t one to disparage taxation and public spending. Also, you’re plan doesn’t address the significant numbers of victims who become incapacitated. Vaccination reduces their numbers; your plan increases it. Again, very expensive.
  - CapricornNoble 5y ago
    >>>All that, versus spending twenty bucks a dose. Are you sure you’re not sure why? I hope you aren’t one to disparage taxation and public spending. It's not a "versus" for vaccine doses. We need the healthcare capacity AND the widespread vaccination. This is "versus" helicopter money to business owners/QE-lite. The US has repeatedly proven it can force the planet to accept its monopoly money/IOUs indefinitely so if we're gonna keep the money printer going "BRRRR" we might as well allocate it to a few things that are, IMO, useful. Such as rapidly-trained, Federal Service nurses.

by glogla 5y ago

CapricornNoble 5y ago

"Perfect is the enemy of good enough" I'm not sure why we aren't implementing wartime-style emergency measures for our Human Resources Management. The Army can produce Combat Medics in 4 months. The Navy produces Hospital Corpsmen in 5 months. Take all that money wasted on the fraud-prone Paycheck Protection Program and offer $200,000/yr salaries for anyone who signs a 3-year minimum contract to serve as an Enlisted Emergency Hospitalman in the United States Public Health Service (which currently lacks enlisted ranks). Leverage the existing military schools for training infrastructure. The resultant Hospitalmen should have enough basic healthcare training to take some of the burden for menial tasks off of the experienced nurses, effectively growing (or at least maintaining) our national healthcare capacity. We don't seem to be taking a "whole of government" approach to solving this emergency. A lot of assets are being left untapped, IMO.

croes 5y ago
This doesn't change the shortage of trained nurses. The ICU staff is already completely shifted to the ICUs because the patients need constant surveillance. We don't need replacement for standard nurses we need more ICU specialist best with experience. No money in the world can buy missed time in the past.
moistly 5y ago
All that, versus spending twenty bucks a dose. Are you sure you’re not sure why? I hope you aren’t one to disparage taxation and public spending. Also, you’re plan doesn’t address the significant numbers of victims who become incapacitated. Vaccination reduces their numbers; your plan increases it. Again, very expensive.
- CapricornNoble 5y ago
  >>>All that, versus spending twenty bucks a dose. Are you sure you’re not sure why? I hope you aren’t one to disparage taxation and public spending. It's not a "versus" for vaccine doses. We need the healthcare capacity AND the widespread vaccination. This is "versus" helicopter money to business owners/QE-lite. The US has repeatedly proven it can force the planet to accept its monopoly money/IOUs indefinitely so if we're gonna keep the money printer going "BRRRR" we might as well allocate it to a few things that are, IMO, useful. Such as rapidly-trained, Federal Service nurses.