Covid-19

[bleedXblue]

Colossal dupe of the century by far.....

We should never let the government do this to us again!!!!!

Far more pain and suffering will come as the result of the economic fallout, loss of companies, jobs etc

[bobbiemcgee]

yep, 0 to 15 was slightly off the mark.

[Xville]

Now the spin is...the second wave is going to be so bad blah blah blah...

Just so hard for the medical community and politicians to admit they were wrong....shocking.

[Muskie in dayton]

Has anyone seen anything about the Florida Health Department COVID-19 database “scandal”? I’ve followed this from the beginning, and it has been wild. It started out simple enough, with an article detailing suspected cases of COVID-19 in Florida dating back to December: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/sta...242480931.html. A “by the way” in the article mentions differences in data sets the Miami Herald downloaded on 4/27 and 5/1.

That must have been enough blood in the water to start a media feeding frenzy, and they came across Rebekah Jones, who put together the Florida Health Department’s GIS COVID-19 tracking site. She was fired in early May, and this comes out on 5/19: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ns/5218897002/

It’s a mainstream media dream - they have a Trump ally (DeSantis) manipulating data to reopen the State before it was safe to do so, and a martyr fired for trying to stop these atrocities!

This story gave no detail on what these manipulations were, and how they would impact the data interpretation, so I did some digging and found this: https://www.tampabay.com/news/health...r-emails-show/. In short, there was an “Event Date” field in the database that listed the date the symptoms began. Because those cases from December were older and somewhat speculative, they took the field down to corroborate. There is no logical connection to how that would help the State reopen, but that didn’t stop the media. Ms. Jones was talking to anyone who would listen about how she was fired because she wouldn't go along with the "data manipulations" asked of her, including a lengthy interview on CNN.

A couple days ago, I found an article in a right leaning source discrediting her: https://tallahasseereports.com/2020/...-its-all-fake/. It presents some character-damaging claims, but some are debatable.

Then today, this comes out: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ree-times.html. You have to give it to the Brits - their journalists dig DEEP. Several years ago she has an affair with a student while she’s a graduate TA at LSU, gets pregnant, and has the student’s baby. When he breaks it off with her, she vandalizes his car and was arrested and fired. She then writes a 342-page manifesto detailing their exploits, then posts some revenge porn for which she is currently facing charges. Along the way she tried filing several lawsuits against the student, which were all promptly thrown out. This woman is certifiable bat-shit crazy!

So not only did the media grab on to a non-issue, but they hung their narrative on a nut-job. I’ll be on the lookout for the mainstream media issuing a retraction and apologizing to DeSantis.

[Juice]

Has anyone seen anything about the Florida Health Department COVID-19 database “scandal”? I’ve followed this from the beginning, and it has been wild. It started out simple enough, with an article detailing suspected cases of COVID-19 in Florida dating back to December: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/sta...242480931.html. A “by the way” in the article mentions differences in data sets the Miami Herald downloaded on 4/27 and 5/1.

That must have been enough blood in the water to start a media feeding frenzy, and they came across Rebekah Jones, who put together the Florida Health Department’s GIS COVID-19 tracking site. She was fired in early May, and this comes out on 5/19: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ns/5218897002/

It’s a mainstream media dream - they have a Trump ally (DeSantis) manipulating data to reopen the State before it was safe to do so, and a martyr fired for trying to stop these atrocities!

This story gave no detail on what these manipulations were, and how they would impact the data interpretation, so I did some digging and found this: https://www.tampabay.com/news/health...r-emails-show/. In short, there was an “Event Date” field in the database that listed the date the symptoms began. Because those cases from December were older and somewhat speculative, they took the field down to corroborate. There is no logical connection to how that would help the State reopen, but that didn’t stop the media. Ms. Jones was talking to anyone who would listen about how she was fired because she wouldn't go along with the "data manipulations" asked of her, including a lengthy interview on CNN.

A couple days ago, I found an article in a right leaning source discrediting her: https://tallahasseereports.com/2020/...-its-all-fake/. It presents some character-damaging claims, but some are debatable.

Then today, this comes out: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ree-times.html. You have to give it to the Brits - their journalists dig DEEP. Several years ago she has an affair with a student while she’s a graduate TA at LSU, gets pregnant, and has the student’s baby. When he breaks it off with her, she vandalizes his car and was arrested and fired. She then writes a 342-page manifesto detailing their exploits, then posts some revenge porn for which she is currently facing charges. Along the way she tried filing several lawsuits against the student, which were all promptly thrown out. This woman is certifiable bat-shit crazy!

So not only did the media grab on to a non-issue, but they hung their narrative on a nut-job. I’ll be on the lookout for the mainstream media issuing a retraction and apologizing to DeSantis.

I doubted her story from the beginning. It fit too nicely into what the media wanted. I've also read somewhere that her role in developing the site was vastly overstated.

[Muskie in dayton]

I doubted her story from the beginning. It fit too nicely into what the media wanted. I've also read somewhere that her role in developing the site was vastly overstated.

Yeah that was the Tallahassee Reports site I mentioned above. The part about her role with the website is kind of fake news from the other side, to be fair. Yes it was a commercially available software package, but she had the lead in the data organization and presentation for the State. It was certainly not a data entry job the way that source portrayed it.

As an update, this story has been reported (so far) by the NY Post and Fox & CBS affiliates. Naturally the CBS story was watered down. It’s sad we can’t trust news sources to be fair, complete and accurate.

On a separate but related note, God do I need sports back!

[Masterofreality]

I basically like Mike DeWine, but his handling of this after Easter has been disingenuous at best and deceptive at worst.

https://www.wmfd.com/article/governo...-policies/3899

[X-man]

I basically like Mike DeWine, but his handling of this after Easter has been disingenuous at best and deceptive at worst.

https://www.wmfd.com/article/governo...-policies/3899

Very interesting read. I hope he's right.

[Masterofreality]

Very interesting read. I hope he's right.

The amazing thing to me is that there is “Major Market Media” in this state between Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati, not to mention Toledo, Dayton and Youngstown with TV stations. But it took a guy from Mansfield to ask and investigate this solicitous Clown Show and write an incisive and damning piece about it.

Our major market dupes have been cowards in challenging this State Administration about their actions and acted like quiet sheep just following the Shepherd without. a bleat.

[paulxu]

There's all sorts of problems with the last few months. Numbers not being reported correctly, estimations of impact wildly wrong, lack of necessary equipment...and the list goes on.

Since we just passed 100,000 deaths in 3 months, I had a couple of thoughts that you guys can have a go at ripping up:

1 - That's more dead people than we lost in Vietnam and Korea combined
2 - We needed (and still need) a more coordinated national response
3 - I wish the president was more sensitive to the losses many have experienced, rather than worrying about his tweets and attacking other people
4 - People say we lose 30-50,000 every year to the flu; only 45% of adults get a flu shot. Think we could bring those numbers down if people got vaccinated?
5 - 35 million + people are out of work. Nothing like that in our lifetimes. I think it'll take a long time to recover.
6 - We have 4% of the world's population, but 28% of the world's deaths from the virus

I hope you and your families are safe, and it won't be long until we can get back to talking basketball.