Covid Scientist Arrested For Honest Evaluation Of Florida

Agents with guns drawn raided the home of a former Florida data scientist who helped track Covid cases. Now a GOP attorney appointed by Governor DeSantis has resigned in protest, saying the raid was meant to "intimidate." The scientist targeted in that raid, Rebekah Jones, had been fired for refusing to fake lower Covid numbers at the direction of DeSantis, who is suspected of being behind the armed raid of her home. She is accused of using the emergency communication network to goad government scientists into telling the truth, but the single user name and password shared by everyone who's authorized to use the system are public knowledge and so far there's nothing to connect her to the message sent.
newtboysays...

So you're coming around to the fact that republicans have become tyrannical, draconian, even big brotherish?

bobknight33said:

When governments fear the people, there is liberty.
When the people fear the government, there is tyranny

BSRsays...

So it really boils down to people fearing people. What do you call that?

Your best revenge now is to move on and never give someone the satisfaction of watching you suffer.

bobknight33said:

When governments fear the people, there is liberty.
When the people fear the government, there is tyranny

newtboysays...

When it’s a black woman being violated in an exponentially worse, unwarranted invasion, you said “ An hour of shame for a retirement package. Not a bad trade.”. When it’s a white household being raided with a valid if politically motivated warrant, it’s tyranny.
...and you still think you aren’t overtly racist?

bobknight33said:

When governments fear the people, there is liberty.
When the people fear the government, there is tyranny

newtboysays...

It totally agree, @eric3579. Who can be trusted? It's harder to know every day.

My take....
Jones is right about the science, false negatives imply you've never been exposed when you have been, so people believe they cannot transmit the virus when they may in fact be infectious, which can lead to reckless nondistancing behavior and infections because they assume they're "safe"... also even a good (not false) positive antibody test does not mean they have meaningful immunity nor does it mean they aren't infectious as this woman claims. It only means you've developed some detectable antibodies to the virus. Period. Both misconceptions are big concerns. "Which is bigger?" seems like a silly fight.

The problem is, no matter what the test says, people think it means they're safe to be around. A negative test...."I never had it so I can't spread it, gimme a kiss"...a positive test..."I had it but beat it so I'm now immune and can't spread it, gimme a kiss". Neither is correct.

I had the chicken pox twice. If a chicken pox antibody test existed, I would have tested positive after the first round and assumed I couldn't get it or transmit it afterwards, but that would have been wrong even though the results weren't a false positive. Instead, because people suck, my parents and teachers just assumed I was "safe" and sent me to school sick and may have caused an outbreak.

Both of her claims here rely on most people completely misunderstanding what the results really mean, and people completely ignoring the possibility of false results. Sadly that's proper to assume.

Interesting how she puts it, she says Jones wasn't asked to fudge any data, just maybe present it in a way that made Florida's public covid numbers look better in the run up to the election....or another way to say that is she was asked to fudge the data....if I recall she claimed she was instructed to hide large numbers of cases in categories not included in the public presentations with the intent to create a false perception of a major downturn in cases under the "open up and unmask" plan.

Wasn't the "private data" she's accused of handing to the press the unadulterated anonymous covid numbers....not really private as it's public data collected by the government for public health reasons... and not personal data as she implied. That's what I recall the charge being....maybe there's more.

The rest is unverifiable and /or personal tabloid stuff....like did they point the gun at her kids or just menace them with the guns, did she get pregnant with her student, etc. Not germane to her claims about Florida's verified misrepresentations, and inappropriate attacks against the messenger instead of the message, imo. Distasteful to me, but besides the point.

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