{"id":4288,"date":"2021-05-11T01:00:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T07:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=4288"},"modified":"2021-08-09T12:55:52","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T18:55:52","slug":"95-percent-effective-against-catastrophic-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/95-percent-effective-against-catastrophic-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"95 Percent Effective Against Catastrophic Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>If you had a countermeasure that was 95 percent effective at preventing catastrophic failure of your company or business, how long would you wait to implement it?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/525029309?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>(The best resource I&#8217;ve found for locating vaccine appointments is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaccinespotter.org\/\">https:\/\/www.vaccinespotter.org\/)<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m Jay Arthur, author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lean-Six-Sigma-Hospitals-Improving\/dp\/1259641082\/\">\u201cLean Six Sigma For Hospitals\u201d<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/trial\/30-day\/\">QI Macros<\/a> [software].<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Let me ask you: if you had a countermeasure that was 95% effective at preventing the catastrophic failure of your business and your company, how long would you wait to implement that?<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Back in 2014 right before Thanksgiving (the day before Thanksgiving) I came down with the flu and I was sick as a dog for 10 days. Now, I didn&#8217;t know this because my doctor did not tell me, but the flu should only last five days. At the end of that five days I was starting having trouble breathing and my wife said \u201cI&#8217;m taking you to the emergency room\u201d where they diagnosed me with pneumonia, and then I spent five days in the hospital on oxygen with IVs in my arms running antibiotics. Ugh, that was nasty. And then I spent another 30 days on oxygen at home just to get to the point where I could breathe on my own successfully.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Now that year I&#8217;d taken the flu vaccine but it was only 14% effective. I also got the pneumonia shot but that only protects you against one pneumonia out of 87 varieties of this stuff. I&#8217;ve since gotten the Prevnar 13 one which protects me against 13 more.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;As I get older, I tell you what: I don&#8217;t ever want to be sick like that again. I don&#8217;t ever want to be sick like that again. Now if you&#8217;re like me, you probably have a phobia of needles. I had the good fortune of finding a pharmacist some years ago who taught me how to relax my shoulders and my arms and get those all loosened up so that when I got an injection it wasn&#8217;t so crazy. That phobia formed when I was a kid, right? Because the needles in the 50&#8217;s were about the size of a 2&#215;4 it seemed like, because you&#8217;re a small kid and it&#8217;s a big needle.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;These are the kinds of things that I think are holding people back from getting the COVID-19 vaccine. It&#8217;s not about freedom; it might just be about fear of needles, so go find yourself a pharmacist and ask them if they can help you learn how to relax so that you can receive it more easily.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Now I had the first dose about three weeks ago and I was woozy for about 10-15 minutes and I was better, and I felt a little lethargy and things like that for a day or two but then I was fine. I got the second dose last Friday, and you know my arm hurt but that was about it. I had a chill &#8211; one chill &#8211; and then I had a little funny feeling the next day and that was it. Now I know other people have more significant reactions: my cousin had a little bit longer one.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;So this is something that I think is good for you, for your family, for your friends, for your co-workers, for the entire nation, for the entire world. If we find a way to defeat this this virus totally.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;When I was a kid, guess what? We all took the polio vaccine because polio was a problem, right? My aunt Charlotte had polio as a kid and it affected her for a very long time. We also got vaccinated with little pokey things in the arm to keep us from getting [smallpox] But we&#8217;ve eradicated some diseases simply by vaccination.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Now I&#8217;m just asking you: If you had something you knew was 95% effective against catastrophic failure of your body where you&#8217;d have to go to the hospital and you might die, would you implement that or would you come up with some excuse not to?<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m Jay Arthur. That&#8217;s my Improvement Insight for this week. Let&#8217;s go out and improve something this week. It might be your health and your immunity to COVID-19. 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