"Don't click a sponsored link" - well, the irony here is that if you habitually use a browser with an ad-blocker, *and* you backstop it with a PiHole, you *never see sponsored links*, so it's easy to miss the tiny "Sponsored" notification beside the search result. That goes double if you're relaxing with a dinner guest on the sofa and ordering dinner while chatting.
There's a name for this kind of security failure: the #SwissCheeseModel.
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It's a good thing humans are pretty tough most of the time. Medicine keeps getting more and more complicated, error potential is off the charts but we all act like it's the same situation as it was 2 decades ago.
Pharmacists, nurses and families can only catch so many mistakes.
Ian MacKay’s #SwissCheeseModel describes the importance of multiple layers of protection against #RespiratoryViruses (not just Covid) - because no one method is perfect (imperfections are symbolised by the holes in the cheese)
Multiple layers of protection improve the likelihood of avoiding and passing on infection.
https://twitter.com/mackayim/status/1592332011590782976?s=61&t=HbuYSCYfNtKPAs9DExpaQA
#SwissCheeseModel #respiratoryviruses
To succeed with this pandemic, we need collective measures. They were let go way too soon.