It's much easier to introduce restrictions than train medical staff in a week. Also capacity has been increasing year on year for the past 100 years in the EU,

It's much easier to introduce restrictions than train medical staff in a week. Also capacity has been increasing year on year for the past 100 years in the EU, USA and the UK . Faster than population actually. Also there is cyclical and situational capacity management. For e.g.: flu waves, new year and now covid waves. I only know about those regions