Touch
It’s easy to understand how easily people can underestimate the extent of their contact with others. The word ‘touch’ has taken on a whole new dimension given the Covid-19. We live in a world full of touch screens and few people think twice when they touch one. I have noticed how casual we have become when it comes to pumping gas. You need to touch the screen to make it work. That’s generally after you actually pick up the pump handle that has been touched by hundreds of others in order to pump the gas itself.
In a whole other instance, I watch my neighbors playing catch. It doesn’t matter how far away it is when you catch or throw a ball. You end up touching the ball. It’s so easy to forget in these strange times.
Greg Nayman, St. Paul
Heads in the sand
We had our collective heads in the sand and ignored history. The history of the world is replete with the occurrence of pandemics. It’s apparent that, over the last 70 years, we assumed that we could weather anything that came down the pike with our knowledge, expertise, and inventiveness.
In those ensuing years, we outsourced development and manufacturing. Even though our government finances research through a labyrinthine grant system, our knowledge of immunology is apparently seriously compromised. Our companies applied Six Sigma standards to manufacturing and service processes. But while manufacturers and service organizations applied those effective standards in varying degrees, the academics and scientists ignored the efficacy of that discipline and failed to adapt and apply it to research and development of processes addressing medical catastrophes.
To make matters even worse, we applied Lean Management methods that resulted in just-in-time delivery of finished product based on yesterday’s demand. This guaranteed that we would not have any emergency stocks available.
Monday morning quarterbacking? Yes. True? Yes.
Art Thell, Inver Grove Heights
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