"trader_4" wrote in message
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On Wednesday, January 27, 2021 at 2:43:36 PM UTC-5, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 1/27/2021 11:42 AM, Bob F wrote:
On 1/27/2021 8:34 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 1/27/2021 8:15 AM, trader_4 wrote:

I got a call at 5:30 PM today, asking if I could come in earlier
than my
9PM appointment for my first shot. I had it in my arm by 6:15. My
second
appointment is for Feb 23. All legally done without difficulty. How
nice
it is to live in a well run Democratic state.

You mean as opposed to a poorly run state, like NY? The roll out is
a disaster
there, websites don't work, phones don't get answered despite
remaining on
the line for four hours. And the over arching message is, "we
don't have
enough vaccine"! Gee, really? It's been clear for months that
supply won't
be up to demand for probably at least 6 months. Cuomo, de Blasio,
geniuses
in charge. They spend more time arguing with each other than
anything else.
Oh, Cuomo had time to write a book about how to manage Covid in the
middle
of this. Maybe if last summer he had spent that time figuring out a
uniform
approach, a website that works, etc they wouldn't be in chaos now.



Can't speak about NY but you have to look at the whole system. Here
in Florida people are complaining they had to hold on the phone or
keep dialing.

Think about it. One Florida county has over 200,000 eligible people.
Most are calling the minute it goes active. Even if half try, it is
100,000 people.

How big of a phone system do you have to build to handle 100,000 calls
in the first few hours? How many staff do you need to answer? From
interviews on the news it seems like most called immediately or in the
first couple of hours. If it was equally spread over 4 hours that is
25,000 calls per hour. At 2 minutes per call that is 50,000 minutes
of phone time per hour. So, you need about 800 operators to answer
them.

My county has about half that but went to a different system where you
register and they call you when doses are available.

We can't all be first n line.

What's wrong with using the internet? Is that just too much for a Repub
state to handle?

All my communication to arrange my shot yesterday was on the internet.
Sign into my UW medical system patient page. Click to make an
appointment. Click on the covid vaccine box. Look at the displayed
calendar of available places and click my choice. Look at the available
dates/times and click my choice.

Doing this on the phone seems pretty silly. Save the phone access for
those without internet.
They did internet is some places. AgGain, what do you need for 100,000
people signing on at the same time? The local county does not have the
resources that Google and Facebook built up over years. It was tough
getting on and appointments filled. When you have 3000 does for 100,000
people you get bottlenecks. It took me nearly an hour to find out they
were gone when they tried that first round.

There is no instant easy solution for that many people at one time.

Yes there was. That would have been to have a competent,
fit president who looked at the whole problem, end to end,
who issued recommendations to the states, created one
national database to register for the vaccine, starting in Sept.

The prez doesnt get to tell the states who they can vaccinate first.
Or even decide which states get how much vaccine early on either.

Instead Trump ignored it all and punted it to the states.

Legally that all that was possible. Same with
lockdowns and stuff like mask policy etc.

Even worse, that ahole general Warpspeed go on 60 minutes
and lie that it was all covered, that they had systems in place
to track every dose from the manufacturer to the person it's
give to. Only now is Biden calling up FEMA to open vaccine
sites and trying to find former docs, nurses, etc that could
administer the vaccine. Total incompetence, both by Trump
and the geniuses writing books like Cuomo.