Are these really the people that should be required to work so much? Isn’t their job about handling life and death daily? Wouldn’t we want exactly these people to come fully rested to work every single day and be fully staffed?
I don’t know if there are jobs with similar stakes that are so carelessly staffed and disgustingly paid.
We aren’t “powerless”. Every time we go to the voting booth we can change things a little. If people vote for a conservative party that keeps wanting to move the needle backwards to “the good old days”, this is the shit we will get: underfunded healthcare, an ever-hotter world, war in the Middle East, untaxed uber-rich, and overworked essential workers.