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The US implemented exactly the proposal I was laughing about: ``Maybe if you had controlled outbreaks with a smaller amount of equipment this could also work.'' Even still there were numerous equipment shortages before supply was able to scale, half-assed regulations were able to bring things under control for a time, and big pharmaceutical came to save the day. Hence the low fatality rate. I would argue that this is exactly what no one wants, but few people wanted to let the thing fester until we ran out of ventilators and wiped out 2% of the population either. Maybe you're out of nurses now (I don't know), but this wouldn't have been an issue until very recently. Further this issue sounds to be a direct byproduct of the amusing US ``solution'' described above.