[FRIAM] I am accepting wagers

[Prof David West]

*Olivia Adams* built an appointment site for Massachusetts as did *Huge Ma* for New York. (don't have links at the moment).

I am pretty sure that 50 $1 million sites would be far superior to one $100 million Federal site. Probably all of them could be up and running in a couple of weeks — parallel development.

davew

On Mon, Mar 15, 2021, at 3:45 PM, uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ wrote:
> Yeah, but the arrogance lies in the word "similar". Is the Yeo and Lin 
> site all that's needed? It took me to WAs "Phase Finder" just fine. (I 
> already knew about it from my GP's recommendation. But it was nice to 
> see the breadcrumbs.) But WA is, I think, ahead of the curve. It's the 
> Feds' obligation to care for even the least techie or poorest citizen, 
> regardless of what state they live in. There's a huge difference 
> between "health care" and "public health". I'd argue that *any* project 
> executed by *any* for profit corporation will come at a public health 
> task with the wrong lens, much like the takeover of our armed forces by 
> over-paid private contractors who can't even put up a non-toxic tent 
> ... or even the recent shunt of Harvard's plan to open-source their 
> vaccine. Back when I worked with the Army, they had some kind of 
> catchphrase that I've forgotten about how easy the other branches had 
> it, what with their nicely specific and particular missions. The Army 
> has to do everything, everywhere, with everyone.
> 
> But it doesn't matter what my preconceptions are about mission creep 
> and public health. Until someone tells me specifically what they *want* 
> to do, there's no way to establish a similarity criterion. If you think 
> you have a similarity criterion, it's probably wrong.
> 
> On 3/15/21 2:30 PM, jon zingale wrote:
> > If we cannot even point to the places where similar things
> > have been done before, what are we doing?
> 
> 
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