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I have a fleeting suspicion that her story won’t check out. It sounds a lot like they brought on more people to back her because of data and operational errors

I have a fleeting suspicion that her story won’t check out. It sounds a lot like they brought on more people to back her because of data and operational errors and she fought back against them to the point where they had to move her away from her position which she took to the media leaving them to let her go. I’m not saying that is definitely the case but I’m eagerly awaiting their response.

robotron 6y ago
That's quite a bit of made-up stuff there.
FireBeyond 6y ago
What are you basing this on? Certainly not the Florida state government's official position and activities thus far. Withholding information on nursing home cases, interfering with media law firms, refusing coroners to release any information so far. But now, apparently, "she's doing it wrong; we just want to make sure accurate and complete numbers get out to the public". Fleeting suspicion, indeed.
- boublepop 6y ago
  Yes indeed, what I said was a fleeting suspicions was a fleeting suspicion. Are we really at the point in online discourse where being literal is so foreign to people that it needs to be attacked? I’m basing my suspension on the reported article, I’m not making any accusations. Though as has been reported, there have been issues where poor reporting of numbers (like reporting deaths by date reported instead of date of death), led to significantly distorted interpretations, which good data scientists would tell you that you need to avoid. This is similar to someone making a “technically true” graph with an offset origin to make it look like there is a huge relative difference between two columns. In that case how you make your visuals matter. And if someone tells you that you need to “manually change the origin to zero” and you won’t do it because your report suits your narrative, then that’s an issue. If it’s actually the case that she wanted to keep showing deaths by date reported instead of date of death because a spike appearing in the less acccurate report made it look like deaths spiked after opening up, then that’s a valid issue. But again, this is all just speculation backing a suspicion and it will be interesting to see their response. Her report is extremely light on details and can’t really be described as whistleblowing as much as just someone venting personal frustrations online and making currenlty unbased accusations. That may change if she provides further details to back her claims of cause.
KarlKemp 6y ago
There has been information added to the article in the meantime, and your little anti-whistleblower fan-fiction is no longer compatible with the facts. Which, by the way, it never was: the lies you imagine would have been easy and quick to expose. And the (completely imaginary!) smear of incompetence you came up with never really explained why she would feel the need for revenge? At least no more than any other story: maybe she was fired because she was madly in love with Governor? Maybe she accidentally killed her supervisor's dog? Or, maybe, we should tend trust people. At least as long as any counter-narrative is less believable than 80s porn plots.
- boublepop 6y ago
  Anyone removed from a project they started would have reason for revenge. As I understand the timeline she was told her role would change, then went public with undocumented complaints and accusations at which point they fire her. (Accusations she has since backtracked on it seems, apparently) If you where told that you where no longer lead on a project at work and your reaction is to email the customers that “the new guys taking over will likely not serve you as well as I have” I expect you’d end up fired as well.
timbit42 6y ago
Why is your suspicion 'fleeting'?

robotron 6y ago

That's quite a bit of made-up stuff there.

FireBeyond 6y ago

What are you basing this on? Certainly not the Florida state government's official position and activities thus far. Withholding information on nursing home cases, interfering with media law firms, refusing coroners to release any information so far. But now, apparently, "she's doing it wrong; we just want to make sure accurate and complete numbers get out to the public". Fleeting suspicion, indeed.

boublepop 6y ago
Yes indeed, what I said was a fleeting suspicions was a fleeting suspicion. Are we really at the point in online discourse where being literal is so foreign to people that it needs to be attacked? I’m basing my suspension on the reported article, I’m not making any accusations. Though as has been reported, there have been issues where poor reporting of numbers (like reporting deaths by date reported instead of date of death), led to significantly distorted interpretations, which good data scientists would tell you that you need to avoid. This is similar to someone making a “technically true” graph with an offset origin to make it look like there is a huge relative difference between two columns. In that case how you make your visuals matter. And if someone tells you that you need to “manually change the origin to zero” and you won’t do it because your report suits your narrative, then that’s an issue. If it’s actually the case that she wanted to keep showing deaths by date reported instead of date of death because a spike appearing in the less acccurate report made it look like deaths spiked after opening up, then that’s a valid issue. But again, this is all just speculation backing a suspicion and it will be interesting to see their response. Her report is extremely light on details and can’t really be described as whistleblowing as much as just someone venting personal frustrations online and making currenlty unbased accusations. That may change if she provides further details to back her claims of cause.

KarlKemp 6y ago

There has been information added to the article in the meantime, and your little anti-whistleblower fan-fiction is no longer compatible with the facts. Which, by the way, it never was: the lies you imagine would have been easy and quick to expose. And the (completely imaginary!) smear of incompetence you came up with never really explained why she would feel the need for revenge? At least no more than any other story: maybe she was fired because she was madly in love with Governor? Maybe she accidentally killed her supervisor's dog? Or, maybe, we should tend trust people. At least as long as any counter-narrative is less believable than 80s porn plots.

boublepop 6y ago
Anyone removed from a project they started would have reason for revenge. As I understand the timeline she was told her role would change, then went public with undocumented complaints and accusations at which point they fire her. (Accusations she has since backtracked on it seems, apparently) If you where told that you where no longer lead on a project at work and your reaction is to email the customers that “the new guys taking over will likely not serve you as well as I have” I expect you’d end up fired as well.

timbit42 6y ago

Why is your suspicion 'fleeting'?