I think it's better to say you don't have answers than to keep being wrong:

* no human-to-human transmision

* masks don't work -> masks hurt you -> masks are mandatory

* transmitted by a pangolin -> we don't know what the intermediary was

* it's racist to say it came from a lab -> it probably came from a lab

* restrictions for a few weeks -> restrictions for months, and maybe brought back seasonally

* it will all be over when x % get vaccinated -> we never said vaccines protect from infection, just bad reactions to covid

It seemed obvious to me from the beginning that hospital capacity would slowly decrease over time the longer the pandemic wears on.

I mean you can run people ragged for a while, but eventually they will give out on you. It works the same in any profession.

The answer they were given was "Two weeks to flatten the curve".

If I had to talk a wild guess, they give answers but you don’t listen or like the response.

Hospitals are designed to run near capacity. It’s reported every winter in the UK that they’re near or over capacity. And outside of winter they’re just as busy. 12 hour shifts, asking ungodly things of staff is nothing new.

Where was your haughty indignation during the last bad flu season?

We have vaccines and had/have mask mandates, yet still staff are giving up. What’s your answer to that?

The last bad flu season didn't kill over 600K Americans...

What’s that got to do with my post? The flu season places extra pressure on the hospitals - I’m not comparing the two viruses. Don’t get so triggered.

Not triggered at all, except by the continued conflation of COVID with influenza. You specifically mentioned:

"Where was your haughty indignation during the last bad flu season?"

Show me a flu season that has exerted the same amount of pressure on hospitals and healthcare workers.

How are you measuring it? What metric would you like to compare?

My comment does not conflate the two. You’re reaching. Every winter (flu season) exerts extra pressure. It doesn’t take much to push hospitals over the edge.

One metric that's interesting: what the market is offering for temporary contracts for traveling nurses. Past flu seasons haven't seen contracts of $10k+ per WEEK for ICU nurses.

Well I read the article and watched the video and the point is, many of the people coming into the hospitals now are unvaccinated by choice. They're quitting because the rate of admissions should be slowing and they should be getting a break after dealing with it for 12+ months, but they're not.

I think hospitals should treat people who are there because of their own fault. Smokers with lung issues, overweight people with diabetes/heart issues, etc should all be treated. I don't see how this is any different.

I understand being frustrated but dealing with people's problems causes themselves is part of the job.