Let me get this straight. Oh, wait. Good morning. I missed yesterday, but if it’s one thing you can count on with the elderly, it’s that their memory ain’t always so good. Today I’m going to talk about planning, or the lack of it, with the vaccine rollout.
In business, if you see that you’re going to need something in six months, the first thing you do is set up a plan to achieve your goal. You begin working on it long before it’s due, because you understand what it takes to implement it, or you find out what gotchas exist that you have to plan for.
And yet, we hear the other day that a county in Florida was coming up with a plan to distribute, in January, the vaccines that they’ve known were coming for how long now? Maybe not the exact timeline, but why would you wait? You have disaster preparedness plans in place long before any disaster happens.
And lo and behold, the plan failed. And not in just that county, but county after county. Websites crashed. Phone lines jammed. As Homer would say, “Do’h!”