Originally Posted by
Capn Rex Havoc
Grumpy - that is simply not true.
On what basis do you say that? A gut feel? Your years of experience in medicine or hospital administration? You state it with the confidence of a fact, when they have already done exactly that in the UK in previous surges, and in the USA. Even if it's just quietly considered and worked out as contingency plans by administrators working in back offices without publicity, it would be foolish not to have at least considered the potential outcomes, in the same way your QRH has checklists for almost every conceivable type of system failure without implying that you expect to have a Green HYD failure or landing gear malfunction.