Michael Foster <[email protected]> wrote: This is serious stuff. In your opinion, Jed, is this something like an > artifact of the unimaginably complex operating systems and networks we now > have? >
Not a bit. This is prosaic. This would have been easy to program, but the people in charge did not get around to doing it. It was similar to the failure to roll out the Obamacare website. That was fixed in a few months. I hope this can be fixed more rapidly. I think it can, because this is a very simple program. Much simpler than Obamacare. I meant it when I said I could have done this with a 65 KB minicomputer in 1979. I did similar things. With modern computing systems, gathering the data and responding quickly to millions of patients would be difficult. That would take a lot of horsepower. But many companies offer this kind of service with cloud applications. Gathering the data would be a big task, but scheduling the appointments would be dead easy. I could run it on my desktop for the entire state of Georgia in no time. The program would be simple. You would have to consider some special aspects of the problem, such as people making double or triple reservations, and steps to ensure that doses are not wasted. Jürg Wyttenbach <[email protected]> wrote: The Pfizer & Moderna vaccine are one target vaccines not vectors. > > Both are already outdated due to new mutations, so be happy you didn't > get the shot. > All of the experts I have read say that the mutations will not reduce the efficacy of the vaccines.
