“The numbers are so large compared to critical care beds that even if heroic intervention creates ten times as many beds and equipment, and somehow finds the staff to man them, the large numbers still overwhelm the system.”
I get it, they have to have some range of beyond capacity but beneath complete collapse that they are going to struggle to hit. It’s easy to relax and have the infections go up, but there has got to be a point of now return you absolutely do not want to go past.
I see what they are doing now and it makes sense. It also makes sense why they didn’t tell us up front what we were going to be dealing with, a series of localized and regionalized shutterings and openings over a period of several months.
They will get better at it, too, as they analyze the data on infections spread and how various restrictions affect them.
The administration is hitting the “pause” button, imho, so they can figure out what to do...
I think they finally got honest with themselves—and realized they did not have a plan—and needed time to make one.
_That_ is the correct first step—to know what you don’t know.