Play the percentages. If, let's say San Francisco has the smaller number of people vaccinated, let's plan a strike there. Coordinate that with the second smallest percentage of vaccinations, and hit that spot too. Keep it up, and it doesn't seem that quarantining an area and administering the vaccine will help much. By hitting the two largest populations with the smallest percent of vaccinations, you are then free to hit spots three to ten and decimate an entire population because the majority of the vaccinations are now headed to the top two areas. If these happen to be across the nation from each other, then chances of getting it distributed to the center of the nation are going to be smaller. There are several factors that would play into the whole scenario, but I'm not going to venture a guess as to what all of them would be.
Ironic how your sig points to everything that I believe would happen if this goes through. Why not bar code my right butt cheek so I can just be "scanned in" next time I need a flu shot? I'm of the firm belief that what was mentioned above about having everything in one place would mean one stop shopping for someone that wants all the bad information on me. Even if it's incorrect.
How many people have had their vaccinations for a particular disease known for being eradicated here in the US? Let's say we look up smallpox. Now let's pretend that I'm up to no good and not a medical provider. I've just hacked in to the database and am finding out that a smallpox outbreak would kill millions of Americans. Wonder if a terrorist organisation would like this info? Wonder how much cash they'd pay for that?
The sad part is, this isn't far from the truth. Now if we include everyone's info in one place, and all of a sudden, one wrong person gets in and the entire country's medical issues are on parade. I'm thinking someone out there would see it as winning the lottery.
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Play the percentages. If, let's say San Francisco has the smaller number of people vaccinated, let's plan a strike there. Coordinate that with the second smallest percentage of vaccinations, and hit that spot too. Keep it up, and it doesn't seem that quarantining an area and administering the vaccine will help much. By hitting the two largest populations with the smallest percent of vaccinations, you are then free to hit spots three to ten and decimate an entire population because the majority of the vaccinations are now headed to the top two areas. If these happen to be across the nation from each other, then chances of getting it distributed to the center of the nation are going to be smaller. There are several factors that would play into the whole scenario, but I'm not going to venture a guess as to what all of them would be.
Ironic how your sig points to everything that I believe would happen if this goes through. Why not bar code my right butt cheek so I can just be "scanned in" next time I need a flu shot? I'm of the firm belief that what was mentioned above about having everything in one place would mean one stop shopping for someone that wants all the bad information on me. Even if it's incorrect. How many people have had their vaccinations for a particular disease known for being eradicated here in the US? Let's say we look up smallpox. Now let's pretend that I'm up to no good and not a medical provider. I've just hacked in to the database and am finding out that a smallpox outbreak would kill millions of Americans. Wonder if a terrorist organisation would like this info? Wonder how much cash they'd pay for that? The sad part is, this isn't far from the truth. Now if we include everyone's info in one place, and all of a sudden, one wrong person gets in and the entire country's medical issues are on parade. I'm thinking someone out there would see it as winning the lottery.
"Are you implying the Shuttle is less streamlined than, say, a solar panel?" African or European?