It's going to take people a while to understand how much damage is being done to our medical system. More people are quitting and there will be another round of resignations after this surge is over. Staffing shortages were already a problem and that problem will worsen.
This isn't simply a shortage of people to do the work -- the consequences of which will be bad enough. You can't simply put back years of expertise that have been carved out of these professions. Quality of care wise, there are a lot of anchors missing.
In most professions, newer people fuck up a lot less when there are experienced people around looking out for them, catching their mistakes and giving them a heads up, or tossing them a solution based on experience. When those people don't exist in hospitals, folks just die more.
Both the medical system and public education system are going to come through this in very rough shape. Solutions will be proposed by neoliberals and they will involve less qualified people doing medical and educational work and more privatization overall.
We need to demand what we want now. Students are protesting being warehoused in schools without soap or testing during a pandemic. We need to get behind them and their demands and insist on major investments in education. And we need free healthcare.
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