Rob Wiblin

What about, has anyone been annoyed that you're kind of spamming them with these messages?

Or perhaps the immunization ambassadors annoyed someone by hassling them too much?

Or I guess it just hasn't been an issue so far.

Okay, that's great.

I guess we've talked about the possibility of this being done by government or possibly even absorbed by government at some point in the future.

What about kind of going the opposite way?

I was imagining an alternative model for trying to get vaccines to everyone might be that the Indian government starts paying a bounty effectively for anyone who's able to immunise a child who otherwise would have gone unimmunised.

And so you could imagine, I guess, semi trying to privatize this by just making it the case that any company in India could potentially try to make a profit by using their marketing ability or their logistics ability to immunize as many people as possible and then go to the government and get paid for it.

Does that sound like a crazy idea that only an economist like me would come up with?

Or might there be an actual useful nugget in there?

Yeah, interesting.

Yeah, I guess I thought of that because I was like, this seems like a sales issue.

It's like, who's really good at marketing?

Who like annoys me all the time trying to get me to use their services?

It's like businesses are the experts in that potentially.

Although I guess, of course, you could hire people who have marketing expertise to try to figure out, you know, what should the SMS messages be?

Maybe it's a slightly odd fit for the immunization ambassador, one that perhaps is better as a nonprofit.

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