“If they get up to their ear lobes in blue people those protocols will go right out the window.”
You’re probably right.
Your husband goes there. Ask him how many blue people per hour he figures their ER can handle. I have worked ERs. Moonlighting as a resident. I was the OIC of an Army ER. I have worked in ERs as a consultant in Camden New Jersey, Northwestern, Easton Hospital in Chicago, Children’s in Philadelphia, Children’s in Chicago and several others. A bunch of big hospitals. Too many little ones to remember. Blue people in the ER is a pretty big deal. It sucks up all the idling resources in the ER. Most little hospitals will struggle with one blue person per hour. The big ones will struggle and fail at ten or so. This is where we as a nation will live or die. How many blue people per hour can we handle?