What she was doing was unilaterally changing numbers without talking to any of the scientists, doctors and medical experts in the State Health Department - herself a apparent drop out from a PhD program. Her field of study? Bachelor's degrees in GEOGRAPHY and JOURNALISM!
She has no relevant education whatsoever, - literally NONE and had been with the Health Department for data entry only. Yet she was altering the statistics prepared by scientists, doctors and epidemiologists to instead post her own numbers online and in press releases.
She was employed by the Florida Department of Health less than 2 years, deciding only she understood covid-19, and therefore summarily and without any authorization replaced the statistics complied by scientists, experts and doctors with her own - and was at least given the option of resigning when she got caught.
Overall, she's just a wacko personally and a young woman who bombed out going beyond bachelor degrees in geography and journalism, deciding she was THE top expert on viruses, pandemics and medical doctors - erasing their numbers and replacing them with her own.
All the attacks and lies with those are just cheesy partisan attacks against Florida's Republican governor, although
he did not participate in the decision. "When asked during a Tuesday news conference about Jones’ public email detailing her reassignment, DeSantis said he did not know who she was but that he had been shown an email that Jones sent to her supervisor, apologizing.
Her "expertise" in viruses, pandemics and epidemiology? She has a masters degree in geography. With this, she was covertly changing statistics created by actual PhDs and experts.
“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,” Ferré said.
“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.
Jones had previously been pursuing a doctoral degree in geography at Florida State University, where she was enrolled from the fall of 2016 through the spring of 2018. While there, a romantic relationship between Jones and a former student turned contentious and she currently faces a criminal stalking charge that is awaiting trial next month.”
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A person with only bachelors degrees in geography and journalism decided she knows more than every expert, doctor and specialist - so she erased their statistics and replaced them with her own. Yeah, that'll get you fired as it should. All the ranting about it is just grotesque partisan hackery.
Or do you progressives ranting about this also think someone with a bachelors degree in art should be put in charge of the CDC - who then should erase all CDC data and replace it with his/her own calculations too? Why keep Fauci or any of the rest when there must be a 23 year old art student who could replace everyone at the CDC with his/her own theories?
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