A data scientist who created a dashboard to track Florida's COVID-19 cases says she's been fired from the state's health department for refusing to "manually change data to drum up support for the plan to reopen."
Georgia was “misrepresenting” their number to open the state.
Georgia’s flattening curve defied all scientific logic. Pandemics don’t end because the economy is suffering and we want them to.
And yet data don't lie. Or do they?
Thanks to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, we now know things did indeed look too good to be true. Georgia’s coronavirus numbers looked so rosy because officials misrepresented the data in such a way it's difficult to believe it wasn't done on purpose.
The state of Georgia made it look like its covid cases were going down by putting the dates out of order on its chart May 5 was followed by April 25, then back to May again, whatever made it look like a downslope.
lol @ Dhyanaji, but spread the word, sister! I think it's time for some of the 60s to return. There is nothing wrong with idealism and the desire to change the world for the better. Right on! Power to the people!
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@dhyanaji I can’t tell you how much I love this post. It screams how I see myself in my younger days. Thank you for the smile this morning. These past few weeks have felt so heavy and with sickness, corruption and evil deeds all over its easy to feel so deflated. But, it’s time to put on the beads, rock the tie-dye and send out the purest white light everywhere. It’s the mindset. Thank you for this. This grandma has to find her beads. ✌️☮️
@dhyanaji
Thanks for your wonderful post! I also miss the activism of the 60’s. I posted a few days ago that we need a MLK-type figure to remind us who we really are, and to galvanize us into action. Does anyone get a sense whether that might occur? I’m seeing multiple groups, alliances, coalitions.
As you stated earlier, "This is Clean Up Time!"
Here's a great way to track and view data, state by state, that shows case trends per capita:
https://projects.propublica.org/reopening-america/#956082
Now that cities are slowly opening back up, the "old normal" is creeping back into the "new normal".
This happened in MY city tonight in a place where in the "old normal" times I might have been hanging out with my family, eating at a restaurant, watching a movie, seeing a concert or visiting with friends. Westgate is an entertainment district where the Arizona Cardinals stadium and Coyotes hockey arena are located. A person with what appears to be an AK-47 opened fire and shot 3 people, one is in critical condition.
We may never know how many shootings were stopped because the lock down paused our nation during the pandemic. Looks like someone just unpaused that button in my state.
It's heartbreaking. As more states emerge from the lockdowns, so will all that pent-up anger emerge like never before unfortunely.
Another side of the Plutonian manifestion, albeit the darkest one, and whether it's passive-aggressive or just plain aggressive insanity like that assault, it will all come out to surface... God have mercy on us all.
We can look forward to an abundance of light coming up though like never before and being regenerated and mirrored in a myriad of ways to dispell those dark shadows ....
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Heartbreaking and crazy. There is such a giant disconnect in some people that cannot seem to recognize the concept of humanity or what it means to embrace being fully a loving and caring human.
I have an overwhelming urge to weep to know that in so many ways we do not learn, grow, or change inspite of all of our opportunities.
I am so filled with sorrow that good, caring people with families they love cannot even enjoy the freedoms or pleasures of going out into the world and be part of it without these discordant and painful and angry and fearful happenings.
I know from our news it is happening again in other places near me, as well. I shake my head in disbelief at the patterns but oh how it hurts that it never seems to end.
The broken record is still stuck in time and the needle cannot jump to a new groove and begin a new song. Still stuck. Still broken.
I am just so sorry it has happened again and really has never truly stopped at all.
So very sad.
(((Lovendures)))