"One day before a top Florida Department of Health data manager lost her role maintaining the state’s COVID-19 data, she objected to the removal of records show

"One day before a top Florida Department of Health data manager lost her role maintaining the state’s COVID-19 data, she objected to the removal of records showing people had symptoms or positive tests before the cases were announced, according to internal emails obtained by the Tampa Bay Times." [1] This does not support the whistleblower narrative, this seems like a front end/front line communications person disagreeing with a decision that is legitimately made by her seniors. It's hard to tell exactly, but it seems reasonable to me that the board might not want to include such information, as it may be spotty, not consistently collected or reported, and frankly it may have no value to the public good. The Canadian government, the Ontario/Quebec government, the CBC - nowhere do I see that level of reporting and nobody here is complaining about censorship and whistleblowing. I think HN has jumped the gun her to assume the validity of this ostensible whistle-blowing action, and I suggest there's some nuance here and no obvious signs of malicious practice. "As a word of caution, I would not expect the new team to continue the same level of accessibility and transparency that I made central to the process during the first two months. After all, my commitment to both is largely (arguably entirely) the reason I am no longer managing it,” [2] - this is kind of an arrogant assumption. What she should have done instead was made specific reference to the information, why it is important, highlighted the problems in the process and how we can be assured that it's addressed. And there's this from the same article: “exhibited a repeated course of insubordination during her time with the Department, including her unilateral decisions to modify the Department’s COVID-19 dashboard without input or approval from the epidemiological team or her supervisors.” So it would seem the state is claiming there's some unprofessional behaviour her on her part, and the point about not consulting with the epidemiological team is particularly difficult. [1] https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/05/19/florida-health-department-officials-told-manager-to-delete-coronavirus-data-before-reassigning-her-emails-show/ https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/05/19/florida-heal... [2] https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/05/19/florida-health-department-officials-told-manager-to-delete-coronavirus-data-before-reassigning-her-emails-show/ https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/05/19/florida-heal...