> chain smokers, alcoholics, or morbidly obese people clogging the medical system. That's the normal load and it is scaled for it[*]. COVID is like a DDoS. A

> chain smokers, alcoholics, or morbidly obese people clogging the medical system. That's the normal load and it is scaled for it[*]. COVID is like a DDoS. And there is no elastic cloud scaling for nurses, you can't just turn up more instances from a ready pool. [*] Well maybe not any more, and lets not get into a discussion of the for-profit health care system.