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While the State has handled this case wrong, she is not innocent in this. She made a bunch of drama about her interpretation of the data, which was, at best, no

While the State has handled this case wrong, she is not innocent in this. She made a bunch of drama about her interpretation of the data, which was, at best, no better than the State's method, and more likely, she was flat-out wrong. She is mostly a drama queen making a crazy mess.

tyingq 6y ago
"not innocent" Like criminally not innocent? Not clear on what you mean hear.
- CapitalistCartr 6y ago
  The State of Florida has handled the case in a Hollywood-level of bungling, thuggish ineptitude. Both sides in this case are dirty. As an active Floridian, I've followed the Covid numbers closely, and at first her story was deeply worrying. But her actual data arguments are idiotic. She doesn't understand data analysis at all. Meanwhile the State acts like the Mafia. Ron DeSantis has been one of the dumber governers we've had, and that's saying something. Regardless of her, I'd love to see him impeached over this.
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  - selimthegrim 6y ago
    Can you give an example of one of her idiotic arguments?
- jkhdigital 6y ago
  My interpretation is that she's not the whistleblower she claims to be, and in fact has unfairly cast a dark shadow over the work of everyone else involved in Florida's Covid-19 dashboard through her accusations. Honestly, I think she was just attributing sinister motives to fairly inane bureaucratic decisions about data and reporting. But once she decided to go on CNN and lob accusations, this whole fiasco turned into a political Rorschach test that is completely unmoored from the underlying reality.
  - raphlinus 6y ago
    I've been watching with some interest, and feel like I don't know anywhere near the whole story. We all look for "good guys" and "bad guys" to make sense of a narrative, but I come away with the feeling that Ms Jones is not solidly in the former camp. One data point I have for this is the way she tears down others who are doing their best work, for example a very public feud with Emily Oster: https://twitter.com/GeoRebekah/status/1344067350216265729 https://twitter.com/GeoRebekah/status/1344067350216265729 We have some serious work to do. I'm very hopeful that we're going to have a very solid team at the national leadership level in 3 days, after a year of a vacuum, but I'm still concerned about state and local levels. I don't think these types of personality fights are very helpful.
kordlessagain 6y ago
Spoken like a true sexist.
- MeinBlutIstBlau 6y ago
  Calling a woman a drama queen is not sexist. Just like calling a dumb man a meathead. It would be sexists to say "all women are drama queens." Police some other type of derogatory remark elsewhere please. You're adding nothing to the conversation.
  - craigching 6y ago
    Do we really need the derogatory remarks in the first place?
    - mythrwy 6y ago
      That's a separate, (but important) topic.
lawnchair_larry 6y ago
You should take a look at her previous run-ins with the law. Definitely an unstable individual who has a history of victimizing others.

tyingq 6y ago

"not innocent" Like criminally not innocent? Not clear on what you mean hear.

CapitalistCartr 6y ago
The State of Florida has handled the case in a Hollywood-level of bungling, thuggish ineptitude. Both sides in this case are dirty. As an active Floridian, I've followed the Covid numbers closely, and at first her story was deeply worrying. But her actual data arguments are idiotic. She doesn't understand data analysis at all. Meanwhile the State acts like the Mafia. Ron DeSantis has been one of the dumber governers we've had, and that's saying something. Regardless of her, I'd love to see him impeached over this.
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- selimthegrim 6y ago
  Can you give an example of one of her idiotic arguments?
jkhdigital 6y ago
My interpretation is that she's not the whistleblower she claims to be, and in fact has unfairly cast a dark shadow over the work of everyone else involved in Florida's Covid-19 dashboard through her accusations. Honestly, I think she was just attributing sinister motives to fairly inane bureaucratic decisions about data and reporting. But once she decided to go on CNN and lob accusations, this whole fiasco turned into a political Rorschach test that is completely unmoored from the underlying reality.
- raphlinus 6y ago
  I've been watching with some interest, and feel like I don't know anywhere near the whole story. We all look for "good guys" and "bad guys" to make sense of a narrative, but I come away with the feeling that Ms Jones is not solidly in the former camp. One data point I have for this is the way she tears down others who are doing their best work, for example a very public feud with Emily Oster: https://twitter.com/GeoRebekah/status/1344067350216265729 https://twitter.com/GeoRebekah/status/1344067350216265729 We have some serious work to do. I'm very hopeful that we're going to have a very solid team at the national leadership level in 3 days, after a year of a vacuum, but I'm still concerned about state and local levels. I don't think these types of personality fights are very helpful.

kordlessagain 6y ago

Spoken like a true sexist.

MeinBlutIstBlau 6y ago
Calling a woman a drama queen is not sexist. Just like calling a dumb man a meathead. It would be sexists to say "all women are drama queens." Police some other type of derogatory remark elsewhere please. You're adding nothing to the conversation.
- craigching 6y ago
  Do we really need the derogatory remarks in the first place?
  - mythrwy 6y ago
    That's a separate, (but important) topic.

lawnchair_larry 6y ago

You should take a look at her previous run-ins with the law. Definitely an unstable individual who has a history of victimizing others.