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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 8189841" data-attributes="member: 177">I've been reading a bit, watching vaccine rollout, and it seems that some reasons for it beign slow (and, by the way, by no means is it only slow in the US - other "First world" countries are also botching it) is coming into focus.You can focus on getting needles into arms, and be efficient, or you can focus on only putting needles in the correct arms, and slow yourself down.  We have this phase structure, and the hoops you have to go through to make really sure that only those who are supposed to get the shot in the current phase is slowing us down tremendously, and causing significant waste of time and vaccine.I understand that there's a great desire for equity and propriety in distribution.  And maybe if smart people had been able to work real planning for, say, the six months leading up to the vaccines being ready, we might have that.  But the infrastructure to quickly and smoothly enforce equity and propriety were not put in place, so now we stumble.  We might get better outcomes by rolling up vaccine clinics and having people stroll thorugh neighborhoods with bullhorns telling folks, "Okay, come over to the parking lot with your ID and your sleeves rolled up, people, and let's get it done!!"</blockquote>