<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div style="font-family:Arial;"><b>Olivia Adams</b> built an appointment site for Massachusetts as did <b>Huge Ma</b> for New York. (don't have links at the moment).<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">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.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">davew<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">On Mon, Mar 15, 2021, at 3:45 PM, uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ wrote:<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> Yeah, but the arrogance lies in the word "similar". Is the Yeo and Lin <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> site all that's needed? It took me to WAs "Phase Finder" just fine. (I <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> already knew about it from my GP's recommendation. But it was nice to <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> see the breadcrumbs.) But WA is, I think, ahead of the curve. It's the <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> Feds' obligation to care for even the least techie or poorest citizen, <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> regardless of what state they live in. There's a huge difference <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> between "health care" and "public health". I'd argue that *any* project <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> executed by *any* for profit corporation will come at a public health <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> task with the wrong lens, much like the takeover of our armed forces by <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> over-paid private contractors who can't even put up a non-toxic tent <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> ... or even the recent shunt of Harvard's plan to open-source their <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> vaccine. Back when I worked with the Army, they had some kind of <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> catchphrase that I've forgotten about how easy the other branches had <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> it, what with their nicely specific and particular missions. The Army <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> has to do everything, everywhere, with everyone.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> But it doesn't matter what my preconceptions are about mission creep <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> and public health. Until someone tells me specifically what they *want* <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> to do, there's no way to establish a similarity criterion. If you think <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> you have a similarity criterion, it's probably wrong.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> On 3/15/21 2:30 PM, jon zingale wrote:<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> > If we cannot even point to the places where similar things<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> > have been done before, what are we doing?<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> -- <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> ↙↙↙ uǝlƃ<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. .<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 <a href="http://bit.ly/virtualfriam">bit.ly/virtualfriam</a><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> un/subscribe <a href="http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com">http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com</a><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> FRIAM-COMIC <a href="http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/">http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/</a><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> archives: <a href="http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/">http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/</a><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">><br></div></body></html>