Obviously he does not believe the guidance of experts means anything.... unless it is coming from fringe lunatics who push HCQ and other remedies for COVID. He rather listen to fabrications coming from politicians.
Florida COVID whistleblower Rebekah Jones tells podcast she 'knew Gov. DeSantis would go after her' before cops raided her home, says staff are 'purged for being disloyal', and describes how deaths are deleted from stats Rebekah Jones, 30, said that she thought that Gov. DeSantis would 'send people to get' her for months after she was fired Jones was a state health department data scientist until she was fired in May She was credited with leading a team that created Florida's COVID dashboard She claimed she was fired because she refused to manipulate COVID data After her firing, Jones created her own national coronavirus dashboard Florida police raided her home on December 7 and executed a search warrant They took her cellphone and laptop as part of a cyber crimes investigation Jones believes they took the items to see who has been giving her information https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ones-tells-podcast-knew-Gov-DeSantis-her.html A week after having her Florida home raided by police, former health department data scientist and coronavirus whistleblower Rebekah Jones said that she had been waiting for state Gov. Ron DeSantis to 'send people to come get me' for months. On December 7, agents from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement carried out a search warrant on 30-year-old Jones' Tallahassee home, while she, her husband their two young children were inside. 'I thought back in May or June, when I first launched the new dashboard, that DeSantis would send people to come get me,' Jones told the Daily Beast's The New Abnormal podcast. ones was a state health department data scientist credited with leading a team in the creation Florida's COVID-19 dashboard early on in the pandemic, before she was fired. She claims that she was asked to leave in May because she refused to manipulate the state's infection numbers. DeSantis has said she was fired because of 'insubordination.' After her firing, Jones filed a whistleblower complaint and created her own COVID-19 dashboard, using information she receives from sources. She told the Daily Beast that she believed that the reason why DeSantis would send people to 'come and get' her was because of the complaint she filed, which claimed that the state was manipulating its coronavirus statistics, breaking the law and asking her to break the law as well. Video from December 7 raid on her house shows at least one officer pulled out his gun while entering Jones' home, after she opened the door and told them that her children were inside. Jones told the Daily Beast that she was 'prepared to be arrested' and that she felt 'nothing' when a gun was near her face, despite having always assumed that it would be a terrifying experience. But, rather than being arrested, officers confiscated her cell phone and laptop as part of what they said was a cyber crimes investigation. Jones has been under investigation since November, when someone illegally hacked Florida's emergency alert health system and sent a message from it. She has denied involvement in the incident. Jones said that after being left alone for nearly half a year since her firing and starting up her own coronavirus dashboard, she thought she was just being ignored. In the wake of the raid, however, she believes that she was targeted, and she suspects authorities took her computer and phone as part of the effort to figure out who in the department of health has been giving her information. 'They’re purging everybody who’s disloyal', she said. DeSantis' office told the Tallahassee Democrat that the governor didn't know about the raid on Jones' house before it happened and that he hadn't been involved in the investigation into her. Jones is skeptical about that, as she notes that the FDLE supposedly reports in to DeSantis' office and the search warrant was reported to be the first search warrant that Judge Joshua Hawkes - who was sworn in in November - had ever signed. 'I don’t personally know the man, I’m not a connected person, but to be the most recent [Florida governor Ron] Desantis employee assigned to family court, and to have this be the first thing that you sign off on, I think that speaks for itself,' Rebekah Jones told CNN. She told Daily Beast that she didn't think she was the 'main target' of the raid, but that 'harassing me and taking all my gear was just an added benefit to that.' Jones claimed in the interview that the state is continuing to under report both coronavirus-related hospitalizations and deaths and allegedly going to far as to delete some deaths from their tracker. She said: 'They’ve deleted people, [from the tracker], including children. 'When I drew attention to the fact that a 2-year-old died in Escambia County, in Florida, less than two weeks after he was diagnosed and hospitalized for it, they reported him as a death. 'And as soon as I tweeted about it, and there was a big press reaction, they deleted it. They actually changed his dead status from yes to no.' Since the raid, Jones has been focusing on sharing the message about the number of new coronavirus cases being reported amongst kindergarten to 12th grade students, teachers and other school workers. The information she is using to build the school-related coronavirus dashboard comes from anonymous sources, which she is determined to protect. The regular dashboard information comes from public sources. DeSantis has been in favor of students returning to in-person classes during the pandemic.
I weight data based on who the experts are. Saying "Experts say" is like "white house sources say". Now if you say "Dr. Fauci said ..." then I can weigh my opinion on Fauci and his "expertise" and all the times he was right or wrong. The article posted with "experts saying" is nothing more than a hit piece. They're pissed at him - have been pissed at him - because he has thrown their lockdowns and control philosophy in their faces and said he wouldn't participate in the stupidity. And his state's numbers are no worse for it. And boy that drives the haters crazy (like GWB).
Doesn't believe deaths are added based on financial incentives, believes deaths were subtracted because woman said so.
This reads like backfilling, and at the end, motivated reasoning. A while back you said you did not consider whether a speaker or a website was left or right, saying in other words that you evaluate the facts. Yet here you just evaluated a speaker's statements based on their label "expertise", which is the same thing.
I DO evaluate the facts. What facts were presented in this article of "expert" opinions? If you post an article that is nothing but an editorial, all I can do is give you my own opinion back. There's no facts to debate. You say "Person A is bad" I say they are good. Who is right? Both? Neither?
Selected quotes from the article from the "experts". Wonderful. No debate. As I would expect. Nothing shocking here. Opinion, opinion, opinion until the opinion crescendo: Ah yes, extraordinary. OK. And when did we leave the poor and low-weath essential workers to be last? The vaccine just came out. The article doesn't say. Opinion, Opinion...etc... Then the quote from DeSantis that he has been saying all along: Opinion follows: Great. Fascinating. Uh huh. That's the whole gist of the article. The "Experts" aren't telling us anything we don't already know, and intermingled inside all this rhetorical nonsense is the editorial from the writer, who is pushing a hit piece. The portion about DeSantis being the devil and not doing the right thing doesn't come from "the experts". It comes from the article author. Because this is an editorial.