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> Yes, people in this thread are letting the perfect be the enemy of the good

No, it's because medicine has a very low fault tolerance, and requires a large body of technical knowledge to even understand what needs to happen for your patient.

Having a team of incompetent clinicians perform complicated medical procedures "good" as a layperson still results in disproportionate people dying, that would have survived under a competent practitioner.

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> [...] would have survived under a competent practitioner.

Bringing us back to the topic of this thread, a potential lack of competent practitioners if the pandemic worsens, and what the best solution to address this would be, such as a COVID-specific ventilator training.

Because the difference between letting someone die under inappropriately-applied ventilation versus just letting someone die is the occupation of a perfectly good ventilator. One that could be used to actually save someone. If you're in the business of killing patients, a gun would be more economical than a ventilator.

I believe there is a third possible outcome that you overlooked.

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