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We don't have to, we just need to keep the numbers low enough that hospitals function properly

Hospitals are a business and will expand capacity if it is profitable.

Seems like most people here think hospitals and health care companies act purely out of the benevolence of their hearts and not for profit, judging by the down-votes on your comment ;)

Some people here really ought to replace Pfizer with Google or Facebook and re-read their sentences.

According to some comments here, we have a purely free market and all actors are benevolent, there are no profit incentives "for the worse" (at all, that is, let me quote: "conspiratorial thinking" to think that people are motivated by profits) and so forth, but only as so far as we are talking about COVID-19.

I typically read the exact opposites when there are discussions about Facebook, Google, or the market in general.

Yeah but they can't do that fast enough, as we've seen. One of the many points where pure captialism fails.

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