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From @chrischirp's latest newsletter. Read it and weep. JCVI / UKHSA are using a "backup Excel model" to make decisions about covid vaccinations because the staff member who knew Python left.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/

When I have calmed down and stopped screaming, I will be emailing my MP.

@agvbergin @chrischirp I felt a bit bad and incompetent today that the code I prepared for an undergrad class had one tiny bug. Thanks, I don't anymore. Also, some students simply fixed it 💪🏻

@agvbergin @chrischirp You don't need to know how to code Python to use a program written in Python. You just execute it like any other program.

@foolishowl @agvbergin @chrischirp Depends on how it was written and if you need to change something, you are stuck.

@agvbergin @chrischirp

Am currently using chatgpt to code python for rando shit.

Fuckin chatgpt could do this better than a government department.

@agvbergin @chrischirp Does anyone remember the Covid stat that failed for a few weeks because it exceeded the row limit of the Excel spreadsheet that was being used to track it?

What is the point of the UKHSA and JVCI? They're incompetence is actively working against public health. Malice or Incompetence? or Incompetent malice?

@agvbergin @chrischirp

"There is nothing I can do" (or the coward version "there's nothing that can be done") and "it is not my fault" are two sentences that I am starting to associate with any and everything in the #UK – as I keep hearing them voiced out loud across many settings –, and to say the least it doesn't forebode well.