I’m most likely wrong (I hope I am), but I’m worried about the long term economic effect this virus will have on the hospitals. Not right away, but over the next year. We have a large number of people needing hospital care for extended time (1 to 2 weeks), and a large number of unemployed. This will result in a lot of bankruptcies (even for people with health insurance). Will the health insurance industry be able to pay out all these clamps as well?

Anyway, I’m half expecting to see another massive bailout for hospitals, or the government just buy them outright in about a year.

Like you I also hope to see bailouts, but the biggest bailouts happen because industries that receive them have an army of experienced lobbyists.

Hospitals for better or worse have negligible presence with lobbyists and won't receive the windfalls that fossil fuel, airlines, airline manufacturers, and cruise lines will.

I am the last person who thinks the government will choose the people over the lobbyists. But something as obvious as your local hospital closing can’t go ignored by politicians.

You notice that now Trump is talking about expanding Medicare, increasing unemployment benefits, and reopening ACA enrollment and you don’t hear a peep from conservatives talking about socialism.

It’s true, the definition of socialism is when the government is helping “them” - not you.

Cloud infrastructure is just such a trivially tiny cost compared to salaries that it's barely even worth thinking about. A year of my AWS bill would barely even pay a week of an engineer's salary. Traffic has scaled up by orders of magnitude and I've only had to make a few minor tweaks to keep things running smoothly.

Surprisingly enough. Every company is not your company. We have a relatively small company but our infrastructure spend is about equal to the fully allocated cost of two or three full time developers.

Not every company just runs a three tier web app behind a load balancer.