Patrick McKenzie

It has to be cool as it's delivered.

That's like a totally unsolved problem in material science, right?

And Amazon would say, we literally do that every day.

Yeah.

Back in December, people were getting on the night in the news and saying this is going to be an unprecedented logistics challenge because the vaccine has to be kept at ultra low temperatures, which are the same temperatures at which milk is transported.

We understand how to do cold chain logistics.

So Amazon would correct that misperception.

They say, oh, you guys seem to know what you're doing.

We have an absence of that here.

Congratulations.

Here's your colonel uniform in the United States military.

And now your job is we are going to give you a CSV file every day, interface with this other colonel, please, from Google on like where this thing needs to go.

And you get it there on time every time.

And if you can't get it there on time every time, like call the White House and we will like find you political cover is what a functioning system would have done.

Yeah.

Granted, the American system is dysfunctional in its own way.

I think another thing that's been underdone in the course of the last couple of years is looking internationally.

I don't know if any country anywhere with vastly different political systems is happy with the outcomes that it got.

Some were obviously vastly better than others, but there are journals of comparative international politics, and why are those journals wrong?

writing anything but like who succeeded at what margins and who did not and what do we learn about like the proper functioning of political systems civil society and like the united states consider it as one like hugely complex uh machine no that okay that's a really interesting point i actually asked tony blair tony blair institute they were recommending to the british government different ways of distributing the vaccine and they they made the obvious recommendation that