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Writing in The New Yorker in the fall of 2020, the physician and author Dr. Atul Gawande compared the general concept to load balancing among power utilities: “Decades ago, electric companies were organized in the same way that laboratory testing is organized today. They were vertical monopolies that ran their own power plants, transmission lines, and customer operations. That arrangement got the job done, but it meant that many communities endured brownouts and blackouts from a shortage of capacity, while others had an oversupply. . . . The creation of a national electric grid that physically connected the electricity supply . . . opened the door for load balancing, increased supply, lower costs, and alternative energy production. We have no national grid for the generation, transmission, or distribution of our testing supply. . . . Now we’re paying the price. In power generation, the worry is that our national grid is aging; in health care, the worry is that we have no grid at all.”
Uncontrolled Spread
Scott Gottlieb
The one contains what is accepted as necessary when it is not yet so; the others, what is imagined as possible and, a moment later, is possible no longer.
Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino
If my shyness made me bad at selling encyclopedias, my nature made me despise it. I wasn’t built for heavy doses of rejection. I’d known this about myself since high school, freshman year, when I got cut from the baseball team. A small setback, in the grand scheme, but it knocked me sideways. It was my first real awareness that not everyone in this world will like us, or accept us, that we’re often cast aside at the very moment we most need to be included.
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