Also accept the reality that hospitals being at capacity is the normal and not a anomaly. Just part of our hyper-optimized JIT economy. Near 100% utilization rate has been reality at flu-seasons for long time. And economically it is just not realistic in general to keep excess capacity.

Yeah according to news headlines health care have been overwhelmed for as long as I can remember. Population increases as well. Obviously the solution is to increase capacity, not to ban dancing, lol

It's much easier to introduce restrictions than train medical staff in a week.

Also capacity has been increasing year on year for the past 100 years in the EU, USA and the UK . Faster than population actually.

Also there is cyclical and situational capacity management. For e.g.: flu waves, new year and now covid waves.

I only know about those regions