Last week, Jones notified public health researchers in an email that she'd been removed from the project. "As a word of caution," she wrote, "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."
“Jones said her dismissal came after she refused to "manually change data to drum up support for the plan to reopen."
So these things are to be considered as just being so by everyone because……in the mind of the one who was fired, they were……….. Interesting.
BUT wait………….
“Gov. Ron DeSantis called Jones' departure from the Health Department a "nonissue." He said he'd seen an email she sent her supervisor saying she never intended to suggest the information on the dashboard might be less reliable going forward. DeSantis said he believes from the email that "she was tired and needed a break."
HUH????????
“an email she sent her supervisor saying she never intended to suggest the information on the dashboard might be less reliable going forward.”
And yet that is EXACTLY what she did earlier in this same article;
“she wrote, "I would not expect the new team to continue the same level of accessibility and transparency..”
“Jones said her dismissal came after she refused to "manually change data to drum up support for the plan to reopen."
Again, this is so because……….. the one who was fired says it is so?
BUT wait….
“In a statement later to The Miami Herald, DeSantis' communications director, Helen Aguirre Ferré, said, "Rebekah Jones 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. “
AND…
"The blatant disrespect for the professionals who were working around the clock to provide the important information for the COVID-19 website was harmful to the team. Accuracy and transparency are always indispensable, especially during an unprecedented public health emergency such as COVID-19. Having someone disruptive cannot be tolerated during this public pandemic, which led the department to determine that it was best to terminate her employment."
Oh dear. Another perspective. What to do, what to do?????????
Exactly which part of this terminated employee's whine fest is it that YOU feel is evidence of GOP hostility to real science ?
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