Whatever Happened to Fired Covid-19 Data Manager Rebekah Jones? (cosmopolitan.com) 272
"Outside were more than half a dozen officers in tactical vests brandishing a sledgehammer and automatic weapons. Hands held high, she opened the door..."
A new article includes video of that moment — and describes not only what happened then, but what's happening now, and what's going to happen next: It was [Governor] DeSantis who brought the fight to her doorstep — figuratively, then literally... The state claims it traced the message to Jones's IP address. Jones claims they knew her IP address from when she worked from home... "If DeSantis thought pointing a gun at my face was a good way to get me to shut up, he's about to learn just how wrong he was...."
In January, she was charged with a felony for allegedly accessing the state emergency message system. If convicted, she could face five years in prison and a $5,000 fine. By then, she had moved her family to the D.C. area, in hopes of putting this chapter behind them all and starting over. She had to return to Florida to turn herself in or else risk extradition. She drove the nearly 1,000 mile, two-day journey alone, determined to keep her kids from reexperiencing the trauma of policemen pounding down their door... The morning she was supposed to leave, Jones started feeling unwell... The next day, she finished the drive — "it was a miracle I did not die or kill someone in my car," she says — and was booked into the Leon County Detention Facility, where she tested positive for COVID-19... She was isolated to keep from exposing other inmates...
[S]he's still proceeding with a whistleblower complaint against the Florida DOH, which is pending. And she's still running her own independent Florida COVID-19 dashboard, Florida COVID Action, which she started last June after being fired. She eventually raised more than $500,000 on GoFundMe to help support the site (along with her living expenses). She's also wrapping up work on The Covid Monitor, a project with the nonprofit FinMango that uses Google tools to help document COVID-19's spread at schools. The work has helped her survive the longest year of her life (and, quite frankly, many people's lives)... She's writing a book about her experience. And although she'd love to get another job working in science, she's not holding her breath. "I haven't met a whistleblower who has landed on their feet any time in the immediate aftermath of whistleblowing," she says wryly.
When asked what she hopes to get out of her lawsuit, she pauses and then says, "An apology. I want a fucking apology."
A new article includes video of that moment — and describes not only what happened then, but what's happening now, and what's going to happen next: It was [Governor] DeSantis who brought the fight to her doorstep — figuratively, then literally... The state claims it traced the message to Jones's IP address. Jones claims they knew her IP address from when she worked from home... "If DeSantis thought pointing a gun at my face was a good way to get me to shut up, he's about to learn just how wrong he was...."
In January, she was charged with a felony for allegedly accessing the state emergency message system. If convicted, she could face five years in prison and a $5,000 fine. By then, she had moved her family to the D.C. area, in hopes of putting this chapter behind them all and starting over. She had to return to Florida to turn herself in or else risk extradition. She drove the nearly 1,000 mile, two-day journey alone, determined to keep her kids from reexperiencing the trauma of policemen pounding down their door... The morning she was supposed to leave, Jones started feeling unwell... The next day, she finished the drive — "it was a miracle I did not die or kill someone in my car," she says — and was booked into the Leon County Detention Facility, where she tested positive for COVID-19... She was isolated to keep from exposing other inmates...
[S]he's still proceeding with a whistleblower complaint against the Florida DOH, which is pending. And she's still running her own independent Florida COVID-19 dashboard, Florida COVID Action, which she started last June after being fired. She eventually raised more than $500,000 on GoFundMe to help support the site (along with her living expenses). She's also wrapping up work on The Covid Monitor, a project with the nonprofit FinMango that uses Google tools to help document COVID-19's spread at schools. The work has helped her survive the longest year of her life (and, quite frankly, many people's lives)... She's writing a book about her experience. And although she'd love to get another job working in science, she's not holding her breath. "I haven't met a whistleblower who has landed on their feet any time in the immediate aftermath of whistleblowing," she says wryly.
When asked what she hopes to get out of her lawsuit, she pauses and then says, "An apology. I want a fucking apology."
Apology & Jail time for all above her! (Score:4, Interesting)
For every day she spent in jail, all those above her all the way to the Governor should spend a week in jail!
There have to be severe repercussions for conspiracy to commit fraud, falsifying scientific data, falsifying government data, using public office to intimidate and persecute employee and whistleblower, etc
I bet nothing happens except to her for standing up for integrity and honesty.
Re:Apology & Jail time for all above her! (Score:4, Insightful)
I wouldn't be too eager to side with someone just because they're against DeSantis.
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She's charged with a felony, which let's be realistic- she's going to be convicted of, because she did it.
Unless a jury decides to nullify. Remember, her offense was logging into the state alert system to...send out an alert. For this DeSantis wants to throw away the key.
Death Rates: FL 0.15% NY 0.26% CA 0.14% (Score:3)
Florida - 32K COVID-19 deaths, 21M population, death rate 0.15%
New York - 49K, 19M, 0.26%
California - 55K, 40M, 0.14%
https://covid19.healthdata.org... [healthdata.org]
Death Rates: FL 0.15% NY 0.26% CA 0.14%
Re:Death Rates: FL 0.15% NY 0.26% CA 0.14% (Score:5, Insightful)
Lets include CA in the comparison so as not to be biased due to Cuomo's deadly incompetence. CA 0.138% vs FL 0.152% may not be a statistically significant difference
In no universe is an 11% higher fatality rate over millions of people with fairly similar ethnic backgrounds not statistically significant. There's just no way that's a fluke.
And remember that even in California, the cases went crazy in winter because too many idiots refused to lock down for too long, which meant that the virus was still massively spreading when winter arrived. This is, of course, exactly what approximately every scientist in the world said would happen if people didn't lock down.
California opened approximately one month too early at the very beginning, and Californians have paid the price for that impatience. If you look at the cases when California opened, they were declining, and would have basically been gone one month later. But instead of holding the line, Governor Newsom bowed to political pressure from sociopathic businesspeople and opened up far early than was safe, and the result was entirely predictable. Every reopening stage resulted in a huge increase in daily case counts, and that was during the summer months, when case counts were bounded by people not being stuck inside with each other. Winter came, and darkness followed. The second wave.
We could have stopped this if we had been an upright and courageous nation. Instead, we're a nation of people who are terrified of being unable to put food on their tables because the strong prey on the weak and we don't take care of the poor. Our nation has reaped what its sociopathic politics have sown. We can only hope that in time, our sociopathic right wing party also reaps what it has sown and disappears, to be replaced by a more sane conservative party that has actual compassion for fellow human beings.
Re: Apology & Jail time for all above her! (Score:5, Insightful)
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How would a lack of testing affect the death rate? Everyone who dies is given a "cause of death". I think it's highly doubtful those people wouldn't have been tested. Though we've heard about shenanigan's, and even legitimate reasons to call the cause COVID related or not.
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How would a lack of testing affect the death rate? Everyone who dies is given a "cause of death". I think it's highly doubtful those people wouldn't have been tested. Though we've heard about shenanigan's, and even legitimate reasons to call the cause COVID related or not.
In a state that wants to keep its numbers low, why would they make rules that require testing of people who have already died and aren't known to have been killed by coronavirus? That would run contrary to their goals. Excess deaths excluding suicide is the best metric in terms of detecting the effects of the pandemic, but excess deaths is a close second.
Coronavirus deaths often look like heart attacks or strokes because of the way the virus causes clot production. If you aren't checking every heart atta
Re: Apology & Jail time for all above her! (Score:4, Interesting)
Florida is counting on the low side by as much as 25%.
Sauce. [aphapublications.org]
Conclusions. Total deaths are significantly higher than historical trends in Florida even when accounting for COVID-19–related deaths. The impact of COVID-19 on mortality is significantly greater than the official COVID-19 data suggest.
Re: Apology & Jail time for all above her! (Score:5, Informative)
Do you have actual proof
That's an impossible burden.
I didn't claim wrongdoing, I simply pointed out that Florida *is* miscounting their COVID-related deaths by as much as 25%. This is a fact. It's literally indisputable.
And p-hacking?
Spare me.
There's no p-hacking involved.
Accounting for growth of population, and using the previous year as a baseline, it's quite easy to determine excess deaths. It's also not hard to see that those excess deaths coincide with COVID peaks.
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like with Cuomo and the death certificates from Democrat run states
And THIS. Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with you?
How the fuck is this political?
Cuomo did some downright fucked up shit, and he's going to pay for it.
What's this shit about "Democratic run states"
I live in WA, and our numbers are fucking great. And we were the epicenter.
CA's numbers are terrible.
This might be hard for you to understand, but Florida isn't Arkansas, and Washington isn't California. The fact that they vote the same way in Presidential elections has nothing to do with their populatio
why not just use Google? (Score:2)
Why did she ask her boss about the hotline? It's a three word search ("florida whistleblower hotline") and the first result for both Google and Bing. (Tried a few other states as well, seems consistent)
Better than China (Score:3, Insightful)
But at least we're better than China. Somehow.
Re:Better than China (Score:5, Insightful)
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I'm sure China is simply manipulating the numbers. They're not counting as "incarcerated" those in "re-education camps" even though it's basically the same thing. You're a "prisoner" only if you happened to commit what people would consider a crime. But political prisoners aren't prisoners, they just need re-education. And disappeared people simply don't show up on either list because their existence is wiped.
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And organ harvesting of Muslim and Falun Gong prisoners, as reported by the Falun Gong.
https://chinatribunal.com/ [chinatribunal.com]
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Why would anyone "harvest organs" from Falun Gong members?
And why is that even a "believed story" in the west?
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When You need a heart, liver, kidney, etc., do you give a shit where it came from (assuming it's a match for you)?
Why would you have any reason to doubt it them? There are other sources as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
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The death penalty is used much more liberally in China than in the US (I can't speak for Russia, I've never read those numbers)
Russian Constitution technically allows death penalty. But right now the harshest penalty in the penal code is lifetime in prison. The last execution was in 1996.
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And that's definitely not the latest one.
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accidentally modded down.
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like the US does with people in Afghanistan or what Israel does with Iran scientists.
Eh, you're walking a fine line there.
You're not wrong... But they're also not very comparable.
The US assassinates terrorist leaders.
Israel assassinates enemy scientists with purported aims of making their country a nuclear power.
Russia assassinates political dissidents.
I'm not trying to justify what the US and Iran does, as I find both actions fucking reprehensible.
But even taking that into account, that's a whole different ballgame than assassinating your own citizens over dissent.
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That was not an execution, that was a murder.
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The US actually incarcerates a higher % of its adult population
Ha Ha Ha that you actually believe China's rate of incarceration figures.
Do you think China's numbers include the entire Uighur Muslim population of China? You know, the ones they keep in re-education camps?
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Here's an exercise for you: what is the actual population of Uyghurs in China? And what is the population of people in China. Divide one by the other, since you are, for some inexplicable reason, assuming that the entire Uyghur population is imprisoned.
Hope she wins her lawsuit (Score:4, Insightful)
I'm not holding my breath though, there's been a concerted effort to pack the courts for the last 20,30 years or so... Still, our judicial system has been known to surprise me.
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Re:Hope she wins her lawsuit (Score:4, Informative)
Ah yes I forgot about the details. The only judge who would sign off on the bullshit raid was brand new and signed in by DeSantis.
Re:Hope she wins her lawsuit (Score:5, Informative)
Fired in May, accessed work computers in November (Score:3)
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Only according to those who asked her to fake the numbers.
Serious question: (Score:5, Interesting)
Is there any proof her claims are true? Do we have any proof that she was ordered to doctor COVID numbers? I am open to the idea - we've had a bunch of governors, like the ones in New York, and Michigan do it so it's certainly in the realm of what's possible.
My problem is that we've also had lots of fake "whistleblowers" who get fired for some reason, then claim to have been whistleblowers (given that there are certain laws to protect whistleblowers, and thus there's an incentive to claim to be one in any labor dispute). The fact that somebody makes such an assertion does not make it true.
Again: I am NOT claiming she has no evidence, I am simply asking if she can prove it, or if she has just made accusations, and then people who hate her governor have simply presumed that her accusations are true.
Re:Serious question: (Score:5, Insightful)
"we've had lots of fake whistleblowers"
No we fucking haven't. This the standard treatment for whistleblowers. Legal protections for them aren't worth the paper they're printed on because our government acts like the mafia no matter what letter is in front of their name.
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There are two mostly-separate issues here: was she ordered to doctor the numbers, and did she access systems she wasn't supposed to (after being terminated)?
A third issue may be whether there is a conflict of interest between those who asked her to doctor the numbers and those who accused her of unauthorized access. That could mean they had motivation to frame her. Cops have tools to hijack a home PC and plant dirt on it. It's how they find child porn. It's not hard for high-level officials to pressure or b
It's pretty easy to google (Score:5, Informative)
Article has sources, and there are plenty more. While it hasn't been proven in a court of law, it's painfully obvious from even a cursory examination of the data that Florida was cooking their books to open sooner.
It's not hard to understand why either. They don't have Sales Tax. Like a lot of Beach States they make their money by taxing tourists. Their government is actually on the verge of financial collapse, and it's only because Biden's relief bill passing that they'll remain solvent. They were about to start slashing school and road budgets. Police and Fire would be next.
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Florida most definitely DOES have a sales tax. I think you meant state income tax.
Re:Fired in May, accessed work computers in Novemb (Score:5, Insightful)
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The state system for sending emergency messages that they allege she used has a single user and password for everyone.
Also, IP addresses can be very easily spoofed. They're not considered reliable evidence in many computer crimes so investigators need to find proof on the computers themselves.
Re:Fired in May, accessed work computers in Novemb (Score:4, Informative)
Also, IP addresses can be very easily spoofed. They're not considered reliable evidence in many computer crimes so investigators need to find proof on the computers themselves.
You might be able to spoof the sender IP address on an outgoing packet, which is good enough for DoS'ing. But most communication protocols will require bidirectional communication for the connection handshake. When your ip address shows up in the server log of a messaging service, you'll have to blame it on an open wifi access point or the server log having been tampered with.
Re: Fired in May, accessed work computers in Novem (Score:4, Interesting)
I handle these warrants on a regular basis.
IPs rarely change. This is the nature of long DHCP leases (which we do so that outages of DHCP services go unnoticed). Most IPs are de facto static, unless you lose service for over 24h, and even *then* only if someone else grabs your lease after it expires, which is also unlikely.
There is no conspiracy necessary.
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This has nothing to do with anybody's "feeling about COVID," and everything to do with the fact that her boss told her to do something massively unethical and probably illegal, then fired her when she didn't.
If crime is the only way to do anything about that, you do the fucking crime and you fight like hell.
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the horror! she accessed computers she was accessing before!
fuck you
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It's not at all clear to me what exactly Ms. Jones was accused of doing. It sounded like something similar to sending an email to an internal email distribution list that she happened to know the address of because she used to work there. But other reports indicated it was a text message, but that didn't make much sense because the reason given for the raid on her house was that the message had an IP address assign
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Isn't it cool how you're not allowed to talk about jury nullification in court? :)
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And mentioning that you know about jury nullificaiton is one of the fastest ways to avoid jury duty, if you feel the need? The defense attorney may welcome it, but the judge does not have the same limitations on rejecting jury members that the defense attorney and prosecutor operate under.
politicization (Score:3, Interesting)
Misreporting at many levels. PCR levels and varied antibodies, presence vs cause of death etc.
Over all I'd rather be 80 in Florida with Desantis, controlling my own isolation and treatment, than 80 in NY with Cuomo.
She'll probably be convicted. (Score:2)
It's a day ending y, so the government is showing us exactly why they have to start a domestic war on terror.
"a top state official" (Score:2)
-- Aeschylus.
All too often, the war is against the truth. It's disturbing how many politicians in the USA pretend reality is whatever they say it is, regarding an inconvenient truth as disposible, and most of them belong to the same political party.
What data was manipulated? (Score:2)
So what is the truth? So far I've seen lots of claims, but little specifics.
The NY/Cuomo is much more specific. Specific numbers of people that were categorized as hospital deaths instead of nursing home deaths. Makes sense because Cuom
More press please :) (Score:2)
You don't change data to show everything is seemingly fine, coz it is not.
Removal from office for incompetence. period.
Journalists, do your job.
Re:Give her an Emmy with Cuomo! (Score:5, Insightful)
Not one single story about Cuomo killing people in nursing homes....
The main-stream media has been covering the shit out of it. Maybe it's time for you to watch CNN.
Re: Give her an Emmy with Cuomo! (Score:5, Informative)
Or APNews, NYPost, WaPo, WSJ, NBC, CBS, Fox News, Aljazeera, China Radio Intl, Hindustantimes, Reuters, The Guardian, and BBC (where I read it).
Re:Give her an Emmy with Cuomo! (Score:4, Interesting)
They've been covering the shit out of it since after the inauguration, while simultaneously pretending they didn't spend the last half year condemning this as a right wing conspiracy theory and russian disinformation plot.
Re:Give her an Emmy with Cuomo! (Score:5, Insightful)
However what Jones did (or was forced to do) was worse. By actually changing the data (vs miss-categorization of the data) She actually corrupted the entire COVID Response.
She did not change the data. She refused a direct order to change the data, and was fired for it.
She then spoke up about being ordered to change the data, and was persecuted and jailed for blowing the whistle on this corruption.
Re:Give her an Emmy with Cuomo! (Score:5, Informative)
She did not change the data. She refused a direct order to change the data, and was fired for it.
She then spoke up about being ordered to change the data, and was persecuted and jailed for blowing the whistle on this corruption.
Happy to believe this if you will share the real data Jones had access to vs. the fake data you believe has been propagated in its stead. That seems a pretty trivial ask months after a sensational forgery has occurred.
The truth is that she was instructed to refrain from publishing data by the state epidemiologist while it was checked against other sources, and then it was published as planned. (And Jones evidently agrees that the Florida covid data can be trusted because it's the same data backing her 'alternate' dashboard.)
She was later arrested for unauthorized use of the alert system. If she really was 'politically persecuted' I'll be glad to declare wrong doing once that is established. She could well have been wrongly persecuted even if not in the right in the matter of the dashboard. However, with multiple felonies and erratic behavior already on her record, and evidence it was her, I wouldn't say she *starts* with the benefit of the doubt. Do you have exculpatory evidence you can share prior to the legal resolution?
Re: Give her an Emmy with Cuomo! (Score:5, Informative)
How about not assume guilt till after.. what you call it... legal resolution? Also we would need to wait for the whistleblower complaint to complete too; that status isn't just given out without due cause.
Re:Give her an Emmy with Cuomo! (Score:4, Insightful)
However, with multiple felonies and erratic behavior already on her record, and evidence it was her, I wouldn't say she *starts* with the benefit of the doubt.
Is this the way American justice works now? Guilty until proven innocent. Why isn’t the former President in jail given this radical change?
Re:Give her an Emmy with Cuomo! (Score:5, Insightful)
You have this backwards. You're the one who's demanding guilty until proven innocent. She is the accuser, not the accused. The burden of proof is on her, not the entire state she's accusing of being part of an increasingly bizarre and ever-growing conspiracy against her.
The situation here is that a serial felon with a history of fraud, theft, sexual harassment, and deeply unstable stalking including a multi-hundred page manifesto about her victim has concocted an elaborate and literally physically impossible conspiracy theory about how the entire state and every single person in it is working against her.
Re:Give her an Emmy with Cuomo! (Score:5, Insightful)
She is the accuser, not the accused. The burden of proof is on her, not the entire state she's accusing of being part of an increasingly bizarre and ever-growing conspiracy against her.
She was the one fired for refusing to falsify data. Then DeSantis sent armed thugs to storm into her home, threaten her family and seize her computer equipment. It is DeSantis who must prove that such behavior was in some way justified, not Jones.
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She was fired for abusing the state's alert system.
No, she was fired for refusing to fudge the data. She was subsequently charged with using the state alert system to send an alert to state employees. You know, doing what the state alert system is designed for.
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She broke the law and was arrested for it; meanwhile, she accuses Gov. DeSantis of engaging in political persecution, when in reality she has been jailed for abusing the state's alert system.
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Perhaps, to prevent her from illegally accessing the emergency broadcast system again?
What are you smoking because that is idiotic. The police were there to seize computers. If they seized the computers, she could not access the system again. Also how does drawing their weapons prevent her from accessing the system again? She was in plain sight of them, nowhere near a computer.
dunno... The world, in which a woman was not merely threatened, but actually killed by a policeman for trespassing [unz.com]?
How is that remotely relevant to this situation where she did not threaten the police? She did not threaten the police. Her children did not threaten the police. It seems like you want to make up facts.
The world, in which a dad is arrested by FBI backed by an armored fighting vehicle [thegatewaypundit.com] for mere protest?
Again how is th
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Except that's not remotely true in the slightest. She's a serial con artist who's been fired and criminally charged at literally every job she's had in her field, including getting kicked out of her PhD program for sexual harassment, and an [humanevents.com] unstable stalker [newschief.com] who's published a three hundred page manifesto about her ex.
There is an incontrovertible paper trail of hard evidence proving that she was asked to temporarily disable data export from a dashboard until the data could be verified and validated. That was
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Well, that is indeed what your right-wing news source says. However, if you follow the links in that article, you'll see that those links don't support the article's allegations.
The word "fired" leads to an article that says
Re: Give her an Emmy with Cuomo! (Score:3)
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There is a difference between Jones vs Cuomo.
There are additional differences: Cuomo never deployed any tactical assault teams to cover his fudgery, and Jones didn't fondle any of his subordinates (as far as we know).
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Cuomo never deployed any tactical assault teams to cover his fudgery
Cuomo's policies seem far deadlier than all the SWAT teams in the US combined.
Re: Give her an Emmy with Cuomo! (Score:2)
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Jones is the woman fired for refusing to falsify data. You probably meant to compare Cuomo to DeSantos (the two governors).
Yes, I noticed that two seconds after I clicked "Submit".
Unfortunately, Slashdot has no "I was a dufus" button.
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Correction. Jones is the woman fired for refusing to temporarily disable data export during a routine validation [humanevents.com] of the data against official sources, as part of an important cross-checking procedure.
She's also the woman who was not only fired from every other job she's had in this field but charged with a serious crime by each and every one as well. She was even kicked out of her PhD program for criminal sexual harassment, and has a history of unstable behavior including stalking. She's also got a history
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Neither did DeSantis. There's body cam footage [humanevents.com] disproving her claims. We're talking about someone so unstable they have a history of theft, fraud, sexual assault, stalking, and have been baker acted before.
This is a conspiracy theory by a deeply unhealthy person.
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He faces the entire responsibility for that. He explicitly violated CDC guidelines published 2 weeks before his order flushing seniors back into the nursing home system without any isolation protections in place. So too did the current sack of shit who is currently assistant HHS secretary in Pudding Cup's administration. Moreover that evil piece of shit explicitly removed their own mother out of said system after making said decision because they knew damned fucking well it was going to kill a shitload of o
Re:Give her an Emmy with Cuomo! (Score:4, Insightful)
An argument right out of Fox where up is down and down is up: your side did XXX, and your side did what our side made her do so she's at fault. How do you look at yourself in the mirror?
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An argument right out of Fox where up is down and down is up: your side did XXX, and your side did what our side made her do so she's at fault. How do you look at yourself in the mirror?
Easily - he just sees someone else's face.
Re: Give her an Emmy with Cuomo! (Score:2)
Isn't it just TP now? You know... Trump Party? Why, what were you thinking TP was? Isn't that what they said at the TPAC event?
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What the **** are you talking about?
Even here, on the other side of the world, Cuomos face is being plastered at the front page of the newspapers and his misdeeds are being reported. Claiming that no-one is talking about it is a blatant lie. Crawl back from whatever rock you stayed under.
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Correction: It WAS being reported only AFTER the inauguration, by the same people who spent half a year lying through their teeth and denying everything claiming it was an alt-right conspiracy and russian bot campaign. It's also already been completely covered up by the sexual assault allegations because the last thing the left wants is for people to take notice that Cuomo wasn't the only democrat governor who forced covid patients into nursing homes.
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Working in tech getting asked to manipulate data happens.
I have not done it, but in one case that I found out about later an H1B who was asked after me, and was in danger of being deported if fired, immediately complied.
This is why companies love H1Bs.
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"It happens" is possibly the worst moral argument ever posed.
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Please explain for everyone how temporarily disabling data export during routine verification is "doing the right thing"? [humanevents.com]
Literally everything she's said is not just untrue, it's impossible. The data is independently sourced from 67 separate localities. There was not only no fraud in the dashboard, there was no POSSIBILITY of fraud because it would have been immediately detected and visible compared to the independant original source.
There's a hard paper trail proving she was never asked to do what she claim
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I believe it because I don't have any reason to trust her, but I have billions of reasons to actively distrust the government. I will take literally anyone's side against the US government and its various state governments.
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Why isn't it news for Nerds, the demographic most likely to find themselves stuck in her position?
Re:Meh. (Score:5, Insightful)
She was a technical analyst of data concerning a pandemic. Ethical behavior and heroism by nerds is, indeed, news for nerds. Whistleblowing by nerds in defiance of political pressure from supervisors, is, excellent news for nerds and an example to learn from.
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Heroism and whistleblowing? Of what? That she was provably only asked to temporarily disable export from a dashboard [humanevents.com] during a routine data verification? The data comes from 67 separate independent sources, she was a low level clerk managing a dashboard page. Not only is there a hard paper trail proving she wasn't asked to do what she claims, it wouldn't have been physically possible anyway.
She's a serial felon who was criminally charged after being fired by each and every single other job she's had in her f
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Getting arrested for unauthorised use of computer equipment is also news for nerds, and if that's what she did, she can fuck right off with her bitching about being arrested.
Refusing to 'fix' the data? Good. Whistleblowing about it? There are good and bad ways to do that. If they sacked her for asking how to do it properly, her claim against them should be successful.
But they're arresting her for ostensibly a valid reason. Maybe she did it, maybe she didn't - but they've charged her, which does suggest the
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She was a technical analyst of data concerning a pandemic.
She actually wasn't.
She was a GIS manager, overseeing the COVID-19 web portal.
That's why the request that was given to her was a technical request. She was not employed, or qualified to interpret the data.
There is some kind of weird cult following type belief over what this woman was. Perhaps because DeSantis is such a fucking human slimeball that we want to believe her story is true. Unfortunately, she has a history of being highly unstable. She's not the hero you're looking for.
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This is your second (at least) evidence-free post in this thread that she's unstable
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According to various articles, she _built_ the dashboard. That involves organizing and to some extent analyzing. Have you ever been asked to tune an alert board or status reporting system failures? I certainly have, and it can get not only awkward, but fraudulent very quickly.
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Allow me to correct the summary:
>This woman was asked to temporarily disable exporting data from a dashboard [humanevents.com] while it was cross-checked with other official sources
>She committed numerous crimes, just like she did at all of her previous jobs and her PhD program (each of which fired her and pressed charges)
>She's now facing criminal charges for those, including the stalking and harassment of her ex
The woman's literally committed serious crimes at every job and position she's had in her field, gotten