R.S.P. only has a point due to us having no country-wide unified health plan, but we do have a for-profit medical industrial complex (MIC), in the absence of universal health coverage through taxes, that is exactly why we are seeing medical staff layoffs.

"hospitals from being over run". The reason this is true now for sure is pandemic deniers along with anti-vaxxers and maskers. The C-19 variant of anything deaths is around 90%, non-vaccinated folks, duh. There is no logic denying the viral pandemic, then we all have to make sacrifices or else, yes the death rate could accelerate wildly.