Czechia is the short name for the Czech Republic.
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âCzechiaâ is the alternative name for Czech Republic.
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Why not?
Get to the heart of the problem, fix it at its source. Theyâve got a fully-functioning government ready to go, just need the military decapitated.
All across the country we hear the same tales of an abysmal morass of red tape and futility.
Hereâs hoping we learn from this experience and prepare for the next pandemic with better systems.
As an engineer who works on processes and systems on a daily basis, this didnât appear like a task that needed to be this deeply fucked up. A centralized database and a couple âfront-endsâ to handle registration (e.g. a web site and a phone bank ) combined with a unified system for notification doesnât seem so difficult on its face.
That we ended up with several competing and disjointed systems is a failure of coordination we should not repeat.
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Mine is on the inside of my right forearm. When I was a young adult, that used to freak medical professionals out. They would look on my biceps for a smallpox scar and not find it. Then they would ask about smallpox vaccination: âOh, you mean this?â, and Iâd show them the scar. âYes, that. What is it doing there?â
Nobody asked me where I wanted it.
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You have to ask?
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Itâs illegal.
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Even if it were legal, can you guarantee it wonât make the political problem worse?
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Even if it were legal and you could guarantee that it would not make the political problem worse, can you guarantee that no innocent people would be killed or injured?
I ask these questions as someone who has been trying to help a number of Burmese activists escape the butchery.
Not looking for answers from drone manufacturers!
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Surgical strikes on key military facilities and certain generalsâ homes would minimize the risk. And hate to sound cavalier about it, but when the military just decided to murder another almost 100 people today, those lives are already at risk.
Or, I suppose we can sit on the sidelines while the death toll creeps into the thousands and tens of thousands while we do nothing substantive.
And as to legality, what theyâre doing ainât exactly legal.
Welcome to the federal government, HIPAA and privacy laws, procurement processesâŚ
Technically, youâre absolutely correct, this could be executed by two kids in their momâs basement over a long weekend with a case of Red Bull.
Should have been the first thing worked on last year to be up and running by this year, now itâs basically too late to make one big database in the sky due to all the red tape to make it happen.
We can record every digital comm in the US, but canât provide shots to the same people. 
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Your idea of âsubstantiveâ may be limited to the continuing use of violence.
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Yeah we know how many Texans have been vaccinated so far - 10 million.
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Because the three-letter agencies donât exactly follow any of the laws.
For a public-facing database like this, nightmare of different laws and regulations applicable. Like who can access it, how do they access it, what are the safeguards, has to pass a whole bunch of things.
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Well, sanctions and freezing assets tend to be window dressing. Doesnât really stop these folks.
They might respond differently if their home was suddenly a 30-foot-deep crater.
This is why we canât have nice, or even necessary, things. Like a sandlot baseball team disbanded by the need for liability insurance in the face of our litigious society.
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How did Trumpâs assassinations work out?
And will your targeting be even as accurate as his?
Do we have an interest in Myanmar that would warrant dropping bombs on them?
I was deliriously happy when we got out of Yemen and quit dropping bombs on the Yemenis.
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Hell, weâve been able to take out terrorists in individual cars in crowded locations with no collateral damage with the more advanced toys.
Whatâs the limit we should accept for governments murdering their people? Just stay home and say itâs not our problem?
Good question.
Supposedly we stand up for human rights.
Itâs just that I donât see âdrone strikesâ as a way of doing that.
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As noted:
Frankly I donât either - not one bit. Iâd just as soon stay out of it except for pressure of whatever kind we can exert but not drone strikes or bombs.
Iâm really tired of dropping bombs on people in faraway places where we donât have a direct interest. I understand about the human rights situation but damn.
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