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They've started calling each other derogatory nicknames. It's a train wreck
The plot thickens!
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/05/19/florida-covid-19-coronavirus-data-researcher-out-state-reopens/5218897002/
FWIW Today's data:
Red indicates total for that date is up from previous day. The 7 "April Adj?" is likely in part due to 5/18 deaths not yet reported. Still adjusting May 6 and 7 and every day from May 9th on makes me wonder what is going on!
I hate politics. The data should be made accessible to anyone who cares to view it. It should be shared in a way that accurately depicts reality. This entire process has left me with no faith in any government authorities' ability/willingness to do what is right. Government on both sides are full of bad actors.
In our weekly Covid19 conference call they told us that the owner of one of the buildings we rent in Duluth wants us to only allow 4 people in an elevator at a time and we must face each corner of the elevator. The building is 6 floors and I wonder how we're supposed to know what floor we're on if the doors open before we get to our destination? Thank goodness I don't have to go out there very often.
Until Florida shows there is a transparent process for collecting data and sharing it with the public as well as the raw data with outside researchers, we should assume they are deflating case numbers and deaths to justify reopening. Anytime someone is asked to manipulate raw data that is a huge red flag. Scientists get blacklisted for doing that. They might have asked her to change something minor, but the fact she was fired, the website went down, and researchers have been struggling to get data is very concerning. The People need answers.
I should also point out that around the time of her firing the website changed from updating at 11am and 6:30 pm with I assume "Today's" numbers to only updating at 11 am with "Yesterday's" numbers so May could be missing a day in addition to the delay's shown in the spreadsheet.
Sitting in Upstate, SC. All good and still waiting for my wife's office to reopen so she can leave the house and leave me in peace :)
I don't know the details other than her comments post-removal from her post but am very interested to learn more.
Interpretation of data is one thing; manipulation of data is a non-starter and can't happen.
The situation definitely needs to be cleared up.
Assumptions never seem to work out. We also have to take a “fired” and disgruntled employee’s (that isn’t the lone person in Florida working on this) Word with a grain of salt. It’s a lot of people working on this....one person saying they hide info? Maybe....but if we are playing the “assume” game then I assume she may be a disgruntled employee.
Read the article first
I can tell you my wife works in a hospital in the Jacksonville FL area and they are cutting hours and just announced that there will be no pay increases this year. Definitely not a flood of patients here. To add she is an RN in the NICU but all departments are cutting hours and no bonuses and they cut the COVID premium pay when on-call. And they are put on-call quite a bit.
There's crap like this going on all over the place, because there is too much at stake and the legacy and careers of politicians (professional liars) are on the line. When manipulating the truth is as normal as blinking or breathing, then its a no-brainer that this stuff would happen.
Gosh, I just read that and realized that this stuff has made be quite the skeptic. I apologize for the negativity...
Raining cats and dogs here in SC. We are finishing up the "school year" at school making sure all the "i's" and "t's" are taken care of.
We are having graduation Friday - bout 250 people in an auditorium that seats 2500, all doors propped open, hand-san everywhere, everyone acting like Sheldon.
For those interested, the National High School Federation made their first statements yesterday. It's worth looking up:
https://www.nfhs.org/media/3812287/2020-nfhs-guidance-for-opening-up-high-school-athletics-and-activities-nfhs-smac-may-15_2020-final.pdf
Tallulah Bankhead was what Kieth Moon tried to be. She was proudly promiscuous with anyone (male or female- she referred to herself as "ambisextrous") that was remotely interesting. She had four abortions by the time she was 30. At 31 she had a hysterectomy due to venereal disease. She weighed 70 lbs. By 66 years old Tallulah Bankhead had a pantheon of health issues stemming from a wildly promiscuous lifestyle, drug and alcohol abuse, malnutrition, and from famously smoking 100+ cigarettes per day. Even if she had the "endemic flu strain" when she died (which may be possible but not provable) nobody (before 2020) blamed a virus for killing Tallulah Bankhead.
But Eric Spitznagel needed a name for his "...didn't spare the rich and famous..." line. I think it's called artistic license. Lots of professionals use it. Even doctors. Even mathematical epidemiologists. But especially reporters and politicians.
Still, his article is far from worthless; the parallels/ contrasts between the two viruses makes for a great read, particularly how the "Hong Kong Flu" received almost no media attention at all while Covid19 gets 24 hour coverage from a dozen television stations and has been the headline of every major periodical for six weeks strong. (If I had a nickel for each time the word "Covid" was used on any news network UGA could triple their recruiting budget).
I'm skeptical of every single Covid19 statistic. Both sides (because apparently there are two sides). What sources were at least influenced by an agenda? You and I don't know. Even the reputable Johns Hopkins is reliant on potentially influenced data. I couldn't care less about new information concerning a global pandemic that has so many political legs I will never know the truth about it. No one will ever know if we saved lives by shutting down the world or if we lost more lives because of it. No one will be able to calculate how much of the economy recovered or was lost forever. And I can just about guarantee that no media figure will say, "I was so wrong about that."
Whatever side you are on you'll probably still be on that side in 2050 when we tell our grandchildren how incompetent the people on the other side of the aisle were in handling Covid19. And we'll be about half right.
Good news: The Coronavirus will be eradicated from central Alabama this Friday.
Bad News: So will everything else.
*not an edit
That's good they will need it:
I wonder if they realize deep cleaning doesn't prevent human-to-human transmission. Also "lack of transparency" shows up again. If people want to make the argument that everyone should be free to choose to go back to work or back to society in general, then we should be given all the information to make an informed decision. That shouldn't be a controversial, political opinion.
I'll bet in the red states "all the information" sounds like Six Flags and in blue states "all the information" sounds like Chernobyl.
A political consultant once told me, "I can pay an engineer to say whatever I want." And they do it. Every day. Every single day. Republicans. Democrats. Any one who thinks one party is "cleaner" than another is naive.
The narrative has become a political game. Statistics are being fabricated in some places and withheld in others leaving the Google educated experts to boil the argument down to "which is better: FoxNews or CNN?"
Everyone's perspective is biased. Even mine. Even yours. I don't have a problem with that. It makes the world a better place...
...sometimes.
I predict that the best selling book in 2022 will be titled "COVID19: What Really Happened."
And it won't tell you what really happened.
And half of your Facebook friends will say "I told you so!" and the other half will say "It's all lies!"