Hawaii's immunization registry and Covid vaccination figures

[Wao nahele wahine]

The first thing that struck me about this article isn't the fact that Hawaii's Covid vaccination percentages dropped.  It was the following:

"The state’s immunization registry came offline in early 2019 when officials decided to update it with new software, licenses and servers. When the pandemic hit a year later, the system still wasn’t functional."

Why did it take over two years to update the system?!

https://www.civilbeat.org/2021/11/hawaii-vaccination-rate-falls-as-state-corrects-data/?utm_source=Civil+Beat+Master+List&utm_campaign=b5d74414be-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_11_30_05_49&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_51c2dd3cf3-b5d74414be-402064102&mc_cid=b5d74414be&mc_eid=98233d7764

[Puna Grace]

The first thing that struck me about this article isn't the fact that Hawaii's Covid vaccination percentages dropped.  It was the following:

"The state’s immunization registry came offline in early 2019 when officials decided to update it with new software, licenses and servers. When the pandemic hit a year later, the system still wasn’t functional."

Why did it take over two years to update the system?!

That's what we call "warp speed" here.

[kalakoa]

1. Case counts and vaccination rates have always been fake news: counting "probable" cases, carefully "verifying" the data, regular "backlogs". Fortunately (or not), these metrics are no longer used to determine appropriate restrictions. Note how careful they are to filter the numbers with "residency".

2. All IT projects in Hawaii take years, plus additional years ("unexpected" problems") and sometimes have years added ("additional upgrades"). Look no further than the fact that neither Oahu nor the Big Island can issue building permits in a timely fashion -- unless, of course, those permit applications are from one of the large builders, somehow these can be pulled out of the automated system and hand-approved. Everyone else ... try wait.

Safe Travels would seem to be the exception -- because it's a tourism function, not the pandemic management system they claim.

[kander]

1. Case counts and vaccination rates have always been fake news: counting "probable" cases, carefully "verifying" the data, regular "backlogs". Fortunately (or not), these metrics are no longer used to determine appropriate restrictions. Note how careful they are to filter the numbers with "residency".

2. All IT projects in Hawaii take years, plus additional years ("unexpected" problems") and sometimes have years added ("additional upgrades"). Look no further than the fact that neither Oahu nor the Big Island can issue building permits in a timely fashion -- unless, of course, those permit applications are from one of the large builders, somehow these can be pulled out of the automated system and hand-approved. Everyone else ... try wait.

Safe Travels would seem to be the exception -- because it's a tourism function, not the pandemic management system they claim.

Getting building permits is not that hard if you know who you need to donate too. even re-zoning can be done with a little graft.  Its how hawaii works. Overblown budgets to keep cousin working for a few extra years no big.

[Wao nahele wahine]

1. Case counts and vaccination rates have always been fake news: counting "probable" cases, carefully "verifying" the data, regular "backlogs". Fortunately (or not), these metrics are no longer used to determine appropriate restrictions. Note how careful they are to filter the numbers with "residency".

2. All IT projects in Hawaii take years, plus additional years ("unexpected" problems") and sometimes have years added ("additional upgrades"). Look no further than the fact that neither Oahu nor the Big Island can issue building permits in a timely fashion -- unless, of course, those permit applications are from one of the large builders, somehow these can be pulled out of the automated system and hand-approved. Everyone else ... try wait.

Safe Travels would seem to be the exception -- because it's a tourism function, not the pandemic management system they claim.

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I would like to think most of us are well aware that many of Hawaii's computerized systems are sadly lacking in functionality and efficiency among other things.   (DMV, DOL, Building and Planning departments to name a few.) The lack of capable personnel isn't helping either. 

I also noticed how well the Safe Travels website worked.  Heck, I have had to use the damn site about a dozen times now.  

[kalakoa]

Safe Travels works "well" because it was fully outsourced. Even then, it doesn't behave like a real web application, there are some cheap tricks.