This is serious stuff. In your opinion, Jed, is this something like an artifact of the unimaginably complex operating systems and networks we now have? Or maybe it's the way those in charge of data processing relate to these systems through the software available. As you pointed out, you could do this with much simpler equipment.
On Tuesday, January 19, 2021, 05:43:25 PM GMT+1, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: In other words, I could spec out a system for doing this in a few days. I could tell the programmers how to make a better system than we have in Georgia. I could have done this back in April 2020, and we would have had the whole thing up and running long before the vaccine became available. This is Data Processing 101. It is the sort of thing people like me have been doing since the 1960s. It is not rocket science. Bill Gates and I (the same age) were both doing stuff like this in high school. Yet no data processing system like this was ready in December. Not in Georgia, and not in the Federal government. None of this is working now. Not at the state level, the hospital I go to, or any drug store. Problems such as combining the registration and the appointment allocation functions should be obvious to any programmer. They are idiotic mistakes. This is a travesty.
