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From the gofundme: “ Lawyer's fees, private investigators, an armed security guard for my home since the police published my home address and contact informati

From the gofundme: “ Lawyer's fees, private investigators, an armed security guard for my home since the police published my home address and contact information online, moving expenses so my family can get out of the Governor's reach, and any costs associated with this fight that I may not be anticipating. My family and I will need to move and get set up in a new place.” Holy hell it’s like she pulled a Snowden or something. All she did was be good at her job and tell the truth. Just another reason for me to never live in Florida.

orangecat 6y ago
All she did was be good at her job and tell the truth. What "truth" do you think she was exposing? The original dispute that caused her to leave her job was a boring technical dispute about whether to automatically publish data from PDFs or to have it reviewed for accuracy first: https://polimath.substack.com/p/a-long-one-about-the-florida-data https://polimath.substack.com/p/a-long-one-about-the-florida.... Despite insinuations from various irresponsible media figures, there is zero evidence that Florida is falsifying data.
- onionisafruit 6y ago
  Is this case all they have when they accuse Florida of falsifying covid data? I assumed there was more but never looked into it.
  - treis 6y ago
    There was also some controversy of counting those that died in Florida but were not residents of Florida. A marginal difference, but not anything that big.
  - pX3q54Q55945w7E 6y ago
    Her “data” that she publishes on her website was always within 5% of what my Florida county publishes, and within the same margin of what I see on NYT or any other website. I say it’s close enough, so she didn’t expose diddly squat. What she did do is access a state computer system without authorization. That’s a crime, and her guilt or innocence will play out in court... like with other crimes. There’s no story here, except about a hysterical, attention-seeking woman who poked the wrong bear. Good luck to her. If nothing else, I hope she learns a lesson.
    - MeinBlutIstBlau 6y ago
      I always laugh at people who press issues like this. It's as if they never prodded authority in high school. In high school, typically the worst case scenario is you get detention or suspension. In the real world, you get sued or go to jail. It makes me glad I did bureaucratic rebellion then. I learned quickly that the powers that be will never concede to you, people quickly disperse or disown you the moment you need help fighting something, and ideals are worthless things fighting for short of endless mass mobs demanding it.
  - SpicyLemonZest 6y ago
    She had some procedural complaints as well, but she's since started publishing her own "defudged" data tracker at floridacovidaction.com, and as far as I've heard it's never reported any huge difference from the state's numbers.
gigatexal 6y ago
Ok there might be more to this case than I had originally read. I didn’t know of the other parts as mentioned below :/
qwerty12345678 6y ago
Please provide references that she was in fact "telling the truth".

orangecat 6y ago

All she did was be good at her job and tell the truth. What "truth" do you think she was exposing? The original dispute that caused her to leave her job was a boring technical dispute about whether to automatically publish data from PDFs or to have it reviewed for accuracy first: https://polimath.substack.com/p/a-long-one-about-the-florida-data https://polimath.substack.com/p/a-long-one-about-the-florida.... Despite insinuations from various irresponsible media figures, there is zero evidence that Florida is falsifying data.

onionisafruit 6y ago
Is this case all they have when they accuse Florida of falsifying covid data? I assumed there was more but never looked into it.
- treis 6y ago
  There was also some controversy of counting those that died in Florida but were not residents of Florida. A marginal difference, but not anything that big.
- pX3q54Q55945w7E 6y ago
  Her “data” that she publishes on her website was always within 5% of what my Florida county publishes, and within the same margin of what I see on NYT or any other website. I say it’s close enough, so she didn’t expose diddly squat. What she did do is access a state computer system without authorization. That’s a crime, and her guilt or innocence will play out in court... like with other crimes. There’s no story here, except about a hysterical, attention-seeking woman who poked the wrong bear. Good luck to her. If nothing else, I hope she learns a lesson.
  - MeinBlutIstBlau 6y ago
    I always laugh at people who press issues like this. It's as if they never prodded authority in high school. In high school, typically the worst case scenario is you get detention or suspension. In the real world, you get sued or go to jail. It makes me glad I did bureaucratic rebellion then. I learned quickly that the powers that be will never concede to you, people quickly disperse or disown you the moment you need help fighting something, and ideals are worthless things fighting for short of endless mass mobs demanding it.
- SpicyLemonZest 6y ago
  She had some procedural complaints as well, but she's since started publishing her own "defudged" data tracker at floridacovidaction.com, and as far as I've heard it's never reported any huge difference from the state's numbers.

gigatexal 6y ago

Ok there might be more to this case than I had originally read. I didn’t know of the other parts as mentioned below :/

qwerty12345678 6y ago

Please provide references that she was in fact "telling the truth".