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8 Jun, 4 tweets, 1 min read
In a bit of good news, Japan is starting to bring operational competence to bear on the vaccination campaign:

ourworldindata.org/explorers/coro… Image
There was a local human-interest story which I really liked from an ops perspective: a local government said "What's the limiting factor on how many people we can vaccinate in a day?", got told "Doctor time?", and refactored the line.
They had nurses and healthcare aids do the recordkeeping and patient questions, had the old folks take a seat on a snaking line of chairs through a gym, and doctor walked the line injecting pre-prepped patients. 120 shots per hour per doctor.
And so help me God, I will remember these years as "We chose to go slow, when we could have chosen to not go slow."

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Typically LLCs are counted one, two, a shedload. The thing which provokes a shedload is either a) financial structuring or b) many parallel projects with similar but distinct risks that one wants to silo from each other.
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Ruriko to Kuroneko (Japanese UPS): "Can you take my husband a brown shopping bag of clean clothes?"
Kuroneko driver: "We can only accept sealed packages, unfortunately."
Ruriko: "Oh dear."
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"Dang it I'm having brownouts in the factory. Time to throw down four coal power plants."

"Now I'm constrained on coal! Well, I'll just divert some from the foundry."

"Foundry offline?!"
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(Plus occasionally the time efficient thing to do introduces a bit of chaos into the orderly clocklike rhythm of your factory, such as using automated trucks versus belt lines.)
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The data which continues to be very volatile is local government and community-run pop-up or mobile vaccination clinics. They often exist only for a few hours after being announced a day or handful in advance.

We mostly find out about these via tool-assisted people keying in.
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