What if tomorrow… you could go to your favorite bar to mingle, attend a live music or theater event in a packed house, go to your favorite restaurant and enjoy a meal indoors, hug all the people you love all you want, without wearing a mask? (Note: Right now, wash your hands, wear a mask and social distance!) Oh, and BTW, end the death and destruction cause by COVID-19? What if there was a way we could get back to normal social interaction and human closeness before a vaccine or an effective treatment for COVID-19 are available?
I’m proposing we can contain COVID fast, in weeks, not months. Imagine the enormous positive results, a booming economy, people at work, people socializing without fear. I’m not an epidemiologist, so I am not venturing into their realm of medical knowledge or safe practices to deter the virus. I am a process re-engineer, so when I see a process gone wrong, I follow these simplified steps: review the process, identify what has gone wrong and where, dig down for root causes, develop solutions to fix the problem.
So, a lot went wrong in our approach to COVID-19, but let’s zero in on the what we did right and then where that left us. Here in the United States, after ignoring the threat we finally locked-down for a few weeks depending on what state you live in and then we eased restrictions, pretty much out of…
