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by lazyjones 2223 days ago
Repercussions based on a single person's unproven allegations? Would you like to live in a place where this is the norm?
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I have to say I haven't followed this news that close but as far as I could understand most of the covid-related data for Florida plus some map layers are now gone/not accessible any more, so that proves that the most important allegation of this person is correct, i.e. the powers that be wanted the data closest to the truth not to be easily accessible anymore.
I can't figure out what data is actually missing for Florida. It looks like there's currently data on cases, hospitalizations and deaths at the county level, as well as historical data on new cases per day and deaths per day (by day of death). The only things that seems to be missing are historical deaths by date reported, historical hospitalizations, and historical county-level data, and most of those are likely to just be noise - admittedly, noise that would be very useful to publications cynically wanting to cherry-pick data and misrepresent it as evidence of a spike due to the reopening like they have with other states, but that doesn't seem like a reason why publishing it would help inform us.

(In fact, I think Florida was actually the state where people took a all-time high spike in newly-reported coronavirus deaths due to the state reporting a bunch of old deaths at once as proof reopening was killing people. And that spike happened on the same day - May the 5th - as this woman complained that she was supposedly removed for "manually change data to drum up support for the plan to reopen.")

> so that proves that the most important allegation of this person is correct

We'll take your word for it. I assume you have ascertained that what your sources are claiming is correct and that the data displayed previously was also correct?

I can think of many other possibilities and prefer to wait for an official investigation before yelling for someone's head.

How do you feel about the opposite - covering things up - is that the best approach? Because that's what's happening right now prior to her allegations.