Making mitigations is difficult. Increasing healthcare capacity is not a short term project. Especially with staffing because the training pipeline is quite lon

Making mitigations is difficult. Increasing healthcare capacity is not a short term project. Especially with staffing because the training pipeline is quite long. Besides, restrictions have an exponential effect (by reducing the R value) whilst mitigations only have a linear effect. That makes it hard to replace one with the other. Instead I think earlier, less stringent, restrictions to start damping the wave early, combined with as much mitigation as possible are probably the right solution. Every wave, its a new game of 'flatten the curve'. And really that is what we need.