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Are you by any chance describing the Swiss cheese model? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model

• toomuchtodo 7y ago
  Yes! It’s overused, but very useful when communicating the idea.
  • 45ure 7y ago
    I agree.
  • robocat 7y ago
    The US response to Covid19 is nothing like the Swiss cheese model. The Swiss cheese model is a perfect storm of unlikely failures that leads to a negative outcome, a failure that slips through multiple safety nets and checks. A real “Swiss cheese failure” reads like a bizarre set of coincidences within a highly rational system of disaster prevention controls, with a unique outcome that never gets repeated again - like some plane accidents where every level of check/balance has had a miss. Other countries have not failed (Taiwan, Singapore, Vietnam, South Korea, Japan, China) which shows that rational actions could prevent this. Many other countries have failed (Italy, Spain, US, Iran, etc) which shows this isn’t a Swiss cheese model.
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