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> Hospital capacity will take years to increase No, not really. With trillions of dollars and 2 years there was absolutely plenty of time and resources to tra
by eric_b 5y ago
> Hospital capacity will take years to increase
No, not really. With trillions of dollars and 2 years there was absolutely plenty of time and resources to train more people and find new COVID-specific spaces. Nurses and PAs can be done in as little as two years with the current system, and people can be trained to handle just COVID patients much faster.
The problems are easily tractable, it's just poor leadership.
- johnchristopher 5y agoWhy would have that worked when half of the US politicians still think it's a cold ?
- xboxnolifes 5y agoTrain the other half.
- seanmcdirmid 5y ago> Nurses and PAs can be done in as little as two years with the current system, and people can be trained to handle just COVID patients much faster. Nursing programs were already at capacity before COVID started, and doing a 2 year program is preconditioned on previous education (a 2 year AS degree in my state). > The problems are easily tractable, it's just poor leadership. Said by every arm chair general ever.
- native_samples 5y agoArm chair generals? Well yeah - military generals have a track record of being able to rapidly train and deploy people during a crisis. Do you think in World War 2 the generals sat around saying "there's no possible way we can increase the size of our air force, it takes years to train pilots and engineers". No, they didn't. They found ways to make it work, because it was a crisis. The absolute refusal by the health sector to do this in any way speaks volumes.
- seanmcdirmid 5y agoI don’t think you understand what the word “arm chair general” actually means. It’s just a term that means “someone who has no experience with the field thinking the answers are easy and that the experts doing the work are just idiots for not seeing how easy the answers are.”
- native_samples 5y agoI know exactly what it means. Nonetheless the term isn't really apt here, given the connotations and obvious parallels with real world military operations.