Everybody touts our heath system as the best in the universe but nobody is willing to find out if this is true. Let’s sit back and watch it in action.
A good analogy is a Diesel engine in a commercial setting. If you keep the RPMs down the maintenance schedule is less expensive. If you have to run the hospital at “140% of recommended RPMs” the “maintenance costs” are going to go up rapidly. The next month or two are going to be fascinating. Historians will argue for decades.
There is no way the majority of hospitals in this country can handle a massive breakout these people are talking about. The hospital in our can handle about 250-350 people max. We are a fairly small county of about 115,000, well down from just 20 years ago before they closed the military fort here. That cost the county thousands and the cities and home sales went south for the duration because of it. Still our county hospital could not handle a breakout of even 1,000 people. They would be looking for bunk beds and cots and a high school gym to put the people in. But, the big question is where would the doctors come from.