Patrick McKenzie – How a Discord Server Saved 1000s of Lives [video]
Patrick McKenzie discusses the VaccinateCA project, a public-private initiative to centralize COVID vaccine information in California, addressing government inefficiencies and the urgent need for timely vaccination.
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Patrick McKenzie, known as patio11, discusses the VaccinateCA project, which he spearheaded to centralize information on COVID vaccine availability in California. The initiative emerged as a public-private partnership in response to the lack of a centralized government effort in the US, leading to confusion and delays in vaccine distribution. McKenzie highlights the urgent need for timely vaccination and critiques the government's software competence and accountability in managing the pandemic. He also points out the government's hesitance to tackle controversial issues related to the vaccination process.
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2 commentsTranscript of the first minute or so:
> [00:00:00] California had the most desirable object in the history of the world and rather than adopting any sensible strategy for getting it into people’s arms was bickering over who should get it first.
> [00:00:11] We should be outraged about this and we’re mostly not if you Googled vacine near me before a certain day there was no answer. After that day there was an answer. That answer came from us.
> [00:00:19] The successful project plan was made by a bunch of rank amateurs at this topic on Discord in the course of a couple of hours Society should not rely on us as plan a how did this happen. It is enormously to the United States credit that we have a extremely functional extremely capable tech industry. Maybe we shouldn’t treat it like the enemy.
> [00:00:44] Today I’m chatting with Patrick McKenzie. He is known for many things on the internet, he’s known as patio11. Most recently he ran VaccinateCA which probably saved on the order of high four figure number of lives during Covid.
I did not find this interview interesting. My impression is that it’s much more efficient to read some of patio11’s writings (https://www.kalzumeus.com/greatest-hits/) and posts in HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=patio11) than watching this video.
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