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Related: About this forumFired data scientist (Rebekah Jones) to DeSantis: "That's a lie"
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I have not seen her evidence yet.
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Fired data scientist (Rebekah Jones) to DeSantis: "That's a lie" (Original Post)
steve2470
Aug 2020
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flamingdem
(39,313 posts)1. Following..
Jeebo
(2,023 posts)2. Rebekah Jones needs a job in the next Democratic administration.
Either in Tallahassee, or D.C.
-- Ron
lpbk2713
(42,753 posts)3. If DeSatan's lips were moving he was lying.
He's a Trump stooge.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)4. I asked her for evidence, hopefully in the next few days she can produce it
I support her. I am just curious, that's all.
She's a good person. Look at this:
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Roland99
(53,342 posts)5. TWO THINGS!
1) She's not the most trustworthy. Her own dashboard inflates the number of new daily cases by including unreliable antibody tests as new cases (which is quite dishonest)
2) She's dead-on correct about the new case % positive.
See my tracking spreadsheet here:
https://tinyurl.com/y7dvoc9w
Here's a graph of FL's testing and % positive over a 7-day trend since May 4 (the "reopening)
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Roland99
(53,342 posts)6. And here's an explanation as to why the state of FL dilutes the % positive in those bar charts