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  • 23scidoo
    23scidoo Thessaloniki,Greece Posts: 19,996
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/09/food-parcels-handed-out-to-workers-in-geneva-impacted-by-covid-19
    Athens 2006. Dusseldorf 2007. Berlin 2009. Venice 2010. Amsterdam 1 2012. Amsterdam 1+2 2014. Buenos Aires 2015.
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    I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    Is there still a coronavirus?  I thought it was all over.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,532
    Fuck Yeah!!!!


    Florida fired its coronavirus data scientist. Now she’s publishing the statistics on her own.
    By Marisa Iati
    June 13 at 12:51 PM ET
    Tension built for days between Florida Department of Health supervisors and the department’s geographic information systems manager before officials showed her the door, she says, permanently pulling her off the coronavirus dashboard that she operated for weeks.

    Managers had wanted Rebekah Jones to make certain changes to the public-facing portal, she says. Jones had objected to — and sometimes refused to comply with — what she saw as unethical requests. She says the department offered to let her resign. Jones declined.

    Weeks after she was fired in mid-May, Jones has now found a way to present the state’s coronavirus data exactly the way she wants it: She created a dashboard of her own.

    “I wanted to build an application that delivered data and helped people get tested and helped them get resources that they need from their community,” Jones, 30, said of the site that launched Thursday. “And that’s what I ended up building with this new dashboard.”

    White House coronavirus response coordinator Deborah Birx praised Florida’s official coronavirus dashboard in April as a beacon of transparency. But Jones has asserted that the site undercounts the state’s infection total and overcounts the number of people tested — with the official numbers bolstering the decision to start loosening restrictions on the economy in early May, when the state had not met federal guidelines for reopening.
    The competing opinions about how to frame Florida’s data underscore the importance of access to accurate information about the virus’s spread as the state continues to lift restrictions on public life. Among other data-related controversies, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) came under heavy scrutiny after Jones first alleged publicly that the health department was manipulating statistics to support his desire to reopen.

    The Florida governor’s office did not respond Friday to an email seeking comment on Jones’s new dashboard. In a previous statement, a spokeswoman for the governor said 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.”

    Jones’s allegations about other managers’ requests are serious. She claimed they asked her to delete data showing that some residents tested positive for the coronavirus in January, even though DeSantis assured residents in March that there was no evidence of community spread. Jones also alleged that she was asked to manually change numbers to wrongly make counties appear to have met metrics for reopening.

    Representatives for the Florida Health Department did not respond Friday to a request for comment on Jones’s dashboard but provided a statement Saturday after this article published. A department spokesman said the January dates that Jones referenced are not necessarily when a person tested positive for the virus. Those dates could also represent the first day someone came into contact with an infected person or went to a place where she may have contracted the virus, the statement said.

    “Epidemiologists collect information that informs the Department of Health of an individual’s symptoms, contacts and location of where they may have acquired COVID-19,” said the spokesman, Alberto Moscoso. “The first date of entry in answer to any question, COVID-related or not, is designated the event date.”

    Many event dates are months before a person became sick, Moscoso added.

    Despite the differences between the state’s dashboard and Jones’s dashboard, Jones’s site relies on the health department’s data. She said she wrote code that pulls information from various reports on the department’s website and presents the data in a way that she believes adds more context. Her dashboard also incorporates data from hospitals and from a volunteer organization that maps coronavirus testing sites.
    On Jones’s dashboard, the number of people tested is significantly lower than the official figure. She said the state’s number is actually a tally of the number of samples taken — not the number of people tested. Her dashboard said Florida had tested 895,947 people as of Friday evening, whereas the state dashboard listed the number of people tested as more than 1.3 million.

    Jones’s death toll is slightly higher because she counts nonresidents who died while they were in Florida, while the state does not. States take varied approaches in accounting for nonresidents who die there, as well as for residents who die while out of state.

    The case count on Jones’s dashboard is also higher because it includes people who have tested positive for antibodies, or proteins that indicate that the virus has been in someone’s body. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has warned that antibody tests are not foolproof and that a higher percentage of positive results may be incorrect in areas where few people have had the virus.

    In Jones’s eyes, the divergences from the state’s data site were necessary.

    “If you’re creating something that simply presents a very narrow view of a situation that’s complex and nuanced but affects everybody’s lives, then you’re not enabling them to take action, to take some semblance of control over what they’re going through,” she said of the state health department’s dashboard.

    Jones said she plans to keep her dashboard running, from her home in Tallahassee, for as long as it seems to be useful for residents and she can afford to do so. If a vaccine is developed, she said she wants her site to include information about distribution.

    The project has been neither easy — Jones said she has been working 12-hour days — nor cheap. To launch the site, Jones said she bought a new computer, upgraded her hard drive and licensed the software that she uses to create the maps. A GoFundMe page had raised nearly $27,000 for her as of Friday evening.

    While Jones said she is open to talking with the health department about selling her dashboard to the state, she insisted that she did not launch the project out of spite or revenge.

    “It really is because I had to stop feeling sorry for myself and what happened to me, as unfair as it was, and get back to doing what I wanted to do in the first place, which was help people,” she said.

    Jacqueline Dupree contributed to this report.


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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    Guy sent me a message today saying basically that now that the county has opened up we can have fire safety meetings in person.  But no mention of zoom or face time.  Ah, no thanks, bub, I'll pass.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • RYME
    RYME Wisconsin Posts: 1,904
    edited June 2020
    "2020 ACL Pro Invitational Qualifier - Wilmington" Sports. (2020) from the 76ers Fieldhouse Wilmington Del. High-def series Live. TODAY!!
    Johnsonville ACL Cornhole championships on ESPN.
    Yes professional bag players wearing masks of course & no fans in the stands.  THIS is where we are for live sports on tv mid-June 2020.
    No concerts to go to or to look foward to until simeday in 2021 mabey.
    What the hell??
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    A word to tack on to the thread title:  "sucks"! 

    I'm in a somewhat foul, miss my old life, stay at home because of  covid, kind of mood.  Better go put on some cool music... PRONTO!  :lol:
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • RYME
    RYME Wisconsin Posts: 1,904
    sports in America today.
    Good grief.
  • mrussel1
    mrussel1 Posts: 30,884
    RYME said:
    sports in America today.
    Good grief.
    I'll stick with Korean baseball.  Cornhole isn't a sport, it's an activity.  
  • RYME
    RYME Wisconsin Posts: 1,904
    brianlux said:
    A word to tack on to the thread title:  "sucks"! 

    I'm in a somewhat foul, miss my old life, stay at home because of  covid, kind of mood.  Better go put on some cool music... PRONTO!  :lol:
    I played a few tunes for you in the lounge car bro.
    It was supposed to be Coffee House Music for ya, but now it's late in the day enough now that it is beer time music.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    RYME said:
    brianlux said:
    A word to tack on to the thread title:  "sucks"! 

    I'm in a somewhat foul, miss my old life, stay at home because of  covid, kind of mood.  Better go put on some cool music... PRONTO!  :lol:
    I played a few tunes for you in the lounge car bro.
    It was supposed to be Coffee House Music for ya, but now it's late in the day enough now that it is beer time music.

    Very cool RYME, thanks!  Still a bit early out here.  Beer time in about 4 hours.  Maybe even red wine time!  :smile: 
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Bentleyspop
    Bentleyspop Craft Beer Brewery, Colorado Posts: 11,452
    edited June 2020
    RYME said:
    sports in America today.
    Good grief.
    It's a beautiful day here which I would never waste inside watching sports or any tv.
    Been outside cycling, running, walking the dog, working around the house, etc. And no need for a mask because I haven't been near anyone.
    So I don't notice that the only televised  "sports " is cornhole.
    Next up sitting on front porch with my dog and drinking some sort of small craft brewery DIPA.

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  • RYME
    RYME Wisconsin Posts: 1,904
    edited June 2020
    Bentleyspop said:
    RYME said:
    sports in America today.
    Good grief.
    It's a beautiful day here which I would never waste inside watching sports or any tv.
    Been outside cycling, running, walking the dog, working around the house, etc. And no need for a mask because I haven't been near anyone.
    So I don't notice that the only televised  "sports " is cornhole.
    Next up sitting on front porch with my dog and drinking some sort of small craft brewery DIPA.

    I didn't waste the beautiful day either here in Wis., I was digging post holes which (builds character and is good for the shoulders my uncle tells me "it's good for ya builds muscle and character")  yeah bleep that lol!. the new deck I'm building, and mixing concrete for the footings.
    So I'm done for the day, come in & sit down for a minute with a beer in hand, & turned on ESPN for no goodl reason.  And that's what was on ESPN. BEAN BAGS is what we play while you are tailgating prior to the ballgame not the main event, and I thought to myself,  If You're vulnerable stay home, otherwise go back to normal full stadiums and sold out concerts.
    Post edited by RYME on
  • HifromIndiana
    HifromIndiana Posts: 9
    HI Everyone!
    COVID is still going on (in some areas the cases are rising)  I work in the Emergency Department and after my shift I go in my isolated part of my home (away from my family) and sit down without moving for a couple of hours.  Work is draining.  Last week I worked a shift without any breaks. I don't know if any of the members of the band read these posts, but I want to thank each one of them.  When I get home, all I listen to is Pearl Jam.  With all the emotions I am dealing with now, Pearl Jam helps me decompress after work.  Thanks for sharing your musical talent with all of us and helping us get through tough times in our lives.
  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    HifromIndiana said:
    HI Everyone!
    COVID is still going on (in some areas the cases are rising)  I work in the Emergency Department and after my shift I go in my isolated part of my home (away from my family) and sit down without moving for a couple of hours.  Work is draining.  Last week I worked a shift without any breaks. I don't know if any of the members of the band read these posts, but I want to thank each one of them.  When I get home, all I listen to is Pearl Jam.  With all the emotions I am dealing with now, Pearl Jam helps me decompress after work.  Thanks for sharing your musical talent with all of us and helping us get through tough times in our lives.
    Thank you for your work looking after people when they need it most. Good luck getting through this safely. 
    my small self... like a book amongst the many on a shelf
  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    USA and Brazil are now number one and two in covid deaths worldwide. 

    Gee, I wonder if there’s anything in common in the leadership of those two countries? Can’t quite put my finger on it. 
    my small self... like a book amongst the many on a shelf
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,823
    HifromIndiana said:
    HI Everyone!
    COVID is still going on (in some areas the cases are rising)  I work in the Emergency Department and after my shift I go in my isolated part of my home (away from my family) and sit down without moving for a couple of hours.  Work is draining.  Last week I worked a shift without any breaks. I don't know if any of the members of the band read these posts, but I want to thank each one of them.  When I get home, all I listen to is Pearl Jam.  With all the emotions I am dealing with now, Pearl Jam helps me decompress after work.  Thanks for sharing your musical talent with all of us and helping us get through tough times in our lives.
    You do good work, thank you.  Some of us know this is still real and something to be respected.
    Keep safe!
    The love he receives is the love that is saved
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    HifromIndiana said:
    HI Everyone!
    COVID is still going on (in some areas the cases are rising)  I work in the Emergency Department and after my shift I go in my isolated part of my home (away from my family) and sit down without moving for a couple of hours.  Work is draining.  Last week I worked a shift without any breaks. I don't know if any of the members of the band read these posts, but I want to thank each one of them.  When I get home, all I listen to is Pearl Jam.  With all the emotions I am dealing with now, Pearl Jam helps me decompress after work.  Thanks for sharing your musical talent with all of us and helping us get through tough times in our lives.
    Thank you. Keep finding that respite as you can; you deserve it. 
  • mrussel1
    mrussel1 Posts: 30,884
    oftenreading said:
    USA and Brazil are now number one and two in covid deaths worldwide. 

    Gee, I wonder if there’s anything in common in the leadership of those two countries? Can’t quite put my finger on it. 
    Led by total dickheads?
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,823
    mrussel1 said:
    oftenreading said:
    USA and Brazil are now number one and two in covid deaths worldwide. 

    Gee, I wonder if there’s anything in common in the leadership of those two countries? Can’t quite put my finger on it. 
    Led by total dickheads?
    Supported by a bunch of shafts?
    The love he receives is the love that is saved
  • mrussel1
    mrussel1 Posts: 30,884
    F Me In The Brain said:
    mrussel1 said:
    oftenreading said:
    USA and Brazil are now number one and two in covid deaths worldwide. 

    Gee, I wonder if there’s anything in common in the leadership of those two countries? Can’t quite put my finger on it. 
    Led by total dickheads?
    Supported by a bunch of shafts?
    Taint that the truth.

    bada...tss
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