What I don't understand is that this disease becoming globally endemic is pretty much a forgone conclusion. With that in mind, when did the goal posts move from flattening the curve to keeping things shutdown indefinitely with no clear criteria for slowly returning to normal and allowing an economic recovery to happen.
With flattening the curve I suspect we'd want to keep the field hospitals due to the lag time in knowing the actual infection and hospitalization rates.
I fear particularly for a subset of countries for whom this could easily be an opportunity for highly punative destruction of rights that has been forming in the background already. South Africa for example.
It's not even a subset of countries. It's all countries, the US included. We're being conditioned to roll over on rights that we've fought hard for over 244 years.
I don't know where you're from, but here in WA we do have clear criteria. What changed is that we realized that we aren't capable of testing people. Everyone expected tests to be easy to create and widely available well before now.
With flattening the curve I suspect we'd want to keep the field hospitals due to the lag time in knowing the actual infection and hospitalization rates.