The Czech State in Ruins
12. 8. 2026 / Pavel Veleman
The Czech healthcare system has apparently decided to exclude the most vulnerable from its care... We’d rather let them die on the streets or send them to prison...
"On July 7 of this year, Gábinka received a summary judgment for the misdemeanor of disorderly conduct, sentencing her to a two-month suspended prison term with an 18-month probation period, as well as the aforementioned three-year ban on residing in the Jihlava region... A person subject to a ban on residence essentially has two options—either to respect the ban and leave the “prohibited” area, or to repeatedly violate the ban, in which case they must expect a more forceful response from law enforcement authorities, which in extreme cases may even result in detention...” (Press report)
Sometimes I get the feeling that the healthcare system is now fully guided by what politicians are quietly, very quietly whispering to them:
- People on the street have only themselves to blame for everything; the solution lies in the hidden privatization of public healthcare—you’ll be just fine, and the scum off the streets won’t “dirty up” your office
- Addictions and mental illness can, after all, be precisely identified and diagnosed; we understand, of course, that it’s a dual problem, but you should stick to your line: “Addiction is not a psychiatric diagnosis,” and shut the door
- Health and social services aren’t meant for so-called “casus socialis”; her life isn’t worth a broken penny (we’re talking about a 29-year-old woman here), and first we’ll drive her out beyond the city limits like in the Middle Ages, and if she doesn’t get it (which she’s incapable of), we’ll simply lock her up in prison, and the girls there will set her straight… Forever!
This is happening right now, practically live.
This is by no means a defence of this woman’s aggression. However, in this—dare I say—painful, fearful delusion, people vent their aggression with almost malicious glee, and in a way that is incomprehensible to us (the “sane” ones), they take it out on those who are most vulnerable. See the oncology department in Jihlava and the verbal attacks from patients—which, when filmed this way, incite a public lynching... Oh my God, instead of professionally working with the patient, we pull out our cell phones...
And now all the social media platforms are abuzz; people are watching and can’t believe it:
And for the most part, instead of asking why not only this woman but also cancer patients in particular are not provided with completely standard health and social services—where the procedure is absolutely clear—including intervention and crisis psychiatric/psychological assistance at the crisis centre.
Here, it would be entirely in the client’s best interest, as sending that woman to prison is a social crime.
We should mobilize her support network and, for the necessary period of time, utilize the so-called detention proceedings for involuntary hospitalization, secure addiction treatment services, and outreach social services specialized in this type of client (in Prague, Fokus or Eset), and work together as a team to help the client. Period...
This would, of course, be far cheaper than resolving the situation through oppression and repeated interventions by the Czech Police; perhaps the hospital even arranged for this woman—who exhibits all the signs of a person at risk and social exclusion—to be admitted. Understandably, in the case of this purely oppressive approach toward a homeless person experiencing an uncontrollable episode, the situation could backfire very severely against the public.
It seems this is exactly what people are waiting for; society wants blood, and the number of homeless people is rising rapidly (the elderly, people with disabilities...).
And so hatred is stirred up against people with “dual diagnoses,” and these individuals are paraded before the public as representatives of such citizens...
It’s still difficult to stir up hatred toward people in wheelchairs, lying under a spruce tree or in a ditch, while social workers bring them pain medication.
However, nothing is impossible; politicians are rapidly training the stressed-out public to become utterly brutal.
It’s bad, very bad—we’re being bullied not only by the government agencies that are supposed to help us (the Czech Republic’s Employment Offices); first, the dentists abandoned us (so we’ll just have to cut our food to small pieces), and now other medical fields are following suit. This is particularly painful in the fields of psychiatry and psychology. In a market-based healthcare system, however, the goal is to make room for well-off, paying “seekers of the meaning of life,” unaware that this meaning lies, for example, in fighting for a world free of oppression and imprisonment—presented as the only “medicine” for the poor and sick...
Don’t take photos or videos, but in this case, urge healthcare workers to turn off their phones and call two floors up to the psychiatry department to demand that psychiatrists ensure not only the safety of their patients but also long-term support for this young woman.
Full stop...
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