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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 8166537" data-attributes="member: 50987">Not really, though.  A failure anywhere in the system is a total failure of the system.  People are looking at it like it's a simple matter of finding the weakest link in a chain and strengthening it, but that's a poor analogy.  A better one is a balloon being popped by a variety of different-sized pins.  It doesn't matter which pin, because any single one of them will pop it just as effectively as any other.Of course I'm exaggerating...the spread of the virus can be limited, the curve can be flattened, measures can be taken.  But they aren't the targets we should be aiming for.  Total elimination of failures in any system is impossible, but that isn't a reason to abandon the effort.  I'm just saying that we need to give equal weight to all of the failures that we have observed, look for others that we might have missed, and then work to eliminate them equally.</blockquote>