Patrick McKenzie

Because basically F the rules, I swore an oath.

on this, right?

So if you want another funny anecdote, I then asked some people in positions that might know, so how real do you think that 25% number is?

And they said, well, the good news is in addition to being incompetent at delivering the vaccine, we're also incompetent in counting.

So it was probably a bit of an undercount.

I'm like, oh, so the good news is like the true count was like 100% or 95% or something.

Well, no, not nearly close to that.

But we got better at counting after the governor yelled at us because he was embarrassed.

We were the 48th state.

We had, so like pharmacies, generally speaking, could today, if you ask, you know, someone deep in the balls of pharmacies accounting department, could you, by the end of the business today, give us a count of like how many bottles of aspirin the pharmacy has?

physically in the world.

By the end of the day, they would have a shockingly accurate number for that.

It wouldn't be exact, but it would be like shockingly accurate relative to that number is like truly millions.

If you could say like, break it down by address, please.

Like, where are they physically present in the world?

Yeah, easy problem.

You know, like managing inventories of drugs, that's what we do.

The United States could not do that, like, and did not perceive that to be an urgent problem to be solved.

So again, like trillions of dollars are on the line.

The United States is spending tens of billions of dollars or more on its COVID response strategy.