“Why do governments (and large companies, in general) always have to overthink the solutions?”
First of all, the officials are a species that by its nature is avoiding stigmas; politicians. The first reaction they have is reluctance.
We live in a different paradigm, in SME, in the real world, trial, and error, adapting fast, reacting fast and serving purpose. So I would never expect from them a can-do attitude, start from something and improve the model on the run.
On top of their natural hesitation, there is a huge wave of fake news that generates resistance against vaccination. So, not only that they have to deliver the vaccine, but they have to sell it to people that live on a rather mystic base than an argumentation, logical one. They had to convince the most anchored in the past church in the world to communicate positively about vaccination. Took time and, probably, money.
Large Companies are actually acting like a state inside a state…
“Pharmacists have been involved with vaccines dating back to the mid-1800s and the distribution of smallpox vaccine.”
In the mid-1800 world was different, we were not that politically right and not that much of a highly regulated society. It was a time when one high-rank official could order vaccination through pharmacies and a proper punishment for resistance. Good or bad, now is different… This is an entirely separate subject, because too much or too little can kill us all.
Yes, pharmacies are having a huge reach to the population and can serve. Still, there are some questions regarding the capability to preserve the vaccine as the storing conditions are quite strict and unnecessary for other medicines. Plus, there is no natural assumption that their personnel can administer the vaccine, have the license for it, or the necessary training to face potential side effects.
Involving doctors in that is much wise. Even retired ones as they do in Germany.
Plus, Pharmacies are not a single organism and they are private companies, some would accept some would negotiate some would refuse. You have no authority over private companies.
Another crazy thing is that we live in a country that avoided 30 years to serve its citizens with an identity management system. The dead are still voting and the population databases are far from being correct given the work migration and how complicated is to change residence.
Basically, they avoided using their data by asking people and family medics to enroll rather than program the vaccination. “Since I don’t know where you are, why don’t you come and get it”.
With your ID and a bank card you have enough data to authenticate yourself and can go digital even with a simple POS that only puts a hold of one Leu on your account and releases it at the second vaccination. Banks would feed the state with lists of vaccinated subjects. In terms of digital solutions, any company from the real world would have had something in place in no time. We are living in reality.
I think things are moving forward and the best possible campaign, at least for the Romanian mindset, is the vaccine shortage. This shortage acted like a catalyst and convinced the mass that if they wait or hesitate too much they might regret it afterward. Therefore we have quite a good rate of enrollment.
At the time, the vaccination is limited by imports, not by logistics. Let’s hope this will solve soon and we will be able to have high vaccination rates and get back to business.
Anyway, let’s be optimistic, it is happening, and we will get through this!
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