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Yes this is an interesting contrast. But besides public/private, it's also about delivering some concrete physical thing, vs. some virtual service. At least for
by iguy 6y ago
Yes this is an interesting contrast. But besides public/private, it's also about delivering some concrete physical thing, vs. some virtual service. At least for the tracing part, I mean... a massive call-center roll-out just seems obviously prone to going badly wrong, a bit like huge IT projects. Especially given how uncertain the total demand for it was.
Whereas for vaccination the goal is clearer & easier to track. Which is not to say that you can't mess it up, of course, witness almost every other country.
- WalterBright 6y agoThere also is a distribution and vaccination system already in place, it's just that for some reason the government wants to reinvent one from scratch.
- iguy 6y agoIn the UK, presumably the NHS is precisely the "distribution and vaccination system already in place", which the government re-used? Although I don't actually know whether they handle the flu vaccine, or if this is something you get at private pharmacies instead.