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Re:Autopsy-based characterization of myocarditis after anti-... by lamontcg on Thursday December 15, 2022 @04:50PM (#34006288)
> chain smokers, alcoholics, or morbidly obese people clogging the medical system.

That's the normal load and it is scaled for it[*].

COVID is like a DDoS.

And there is no elastic cloud scaling for nurses, you can't just turn up more instances from a ready pool.

[*] Well maybe not any more, and lets not get into a discussion of the for-profit health care system.

Re:Autopsy-based characterization of myocarditis after anti-... by kennyloginz on Thursday December 15, 2022 @10:35PM (#34009704)
Interesting way to look at it , a DDoS on healthcare. Makes me think of a Cold War sci-fi story called “Wasp”.