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Scott Lurndal

writes:
On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 10:17:24 -0500, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On 2/18/2021 12:28 AM, wrote:
On Wed, 17 Feb 2021 15:26:00 -0800 (PST), trader_4
wrote:

On Wednesday, February 17, 2021 at 3:14:55 PM UTC-5, micky wrote:
Right now there is snow in Texas and Oklahoma and they're saying that
this may delay things. Why not send the vaccine somewhere else and
catch up with Texas later?

Why not ask your boy, Uncle Joe? He's in charge.

Yeah, where is that military help he promised? They don't have to ship
this stuff Fed Ex. These are fairly small boxes. Let Joyce's Air Force
deliver them to the cities that are socked in and have the National
Guard take them the last mile in a Humvee.
After all this NATO bull****, don't tell me they haven't trained to
deliver supplies in the snow.

Just because you can does not mean you should. If commercial flights
are down it may be just as unsafe for military flights and to put the
entire system in place in a few hours is not easily done.

In the scheme of life a 48 hour delay is not really a big deal.

I am not the one complaining but you really shouldn't need that much
planning to fly a box from Massachusetts to Florida

Amongst many other failings, you're clearly not an expert on logistics.

There was a long article in AW&ST recently about the logistics of
vaccine delivery. When it requires such unusually low storage and
transport temperatures, transportation becomes more difficult.

For example, almost half the cargo weight is for the dry-ice used
to preserve the vaccine. And because frozen CO2 sublimates, there
are issues with CO2 generation during transport which further
restrict the volume that can be transported in a single flight.

The estimate was something close to 8000 747 sized cargo flights to
fully distribute the vaccine in the USA, IIRC.