Wow. I don't even know what to say. This is horrible, and misinformation at its worst. I feel like this is the magic marker on the hurricane map that nobody can easily laugh at, because they can't see it.
1) She will not be subject to long term repercussions for being honest and doing her job
2) Whoever asked her to cook the numbers, will be sued and arrested and go to jail. Cooking the numbers in this case equates to me as killing people, because decisions related to reopening, etc, will be heavily influenced by these numbers.
3) I hope that someone Rebekah Jones will know that unknown people in the internet, even in this obscure hacker site called Hacker News, are proud of what she stood for. She has nothing to gain and everything to lose, and yet she chose the right path. (again, assuming this is true)
How do we realize that ideal?
See David Moore's book The Opinion Makers: An Insider Exposes the Truth Behind the Polls.
like in person? or on TV?
and from this you draw the conclusion that "tons" of deaths are misreported?
Edit: people of Florida were lucky to have such a civil servant.
I don't say this to excuse the problems. I just want to point out (based on my experience with family in some of these places and local news sources there) that the countries that are not ranked as highly tend to have a lot of problems that people who focus on US news genuinely don't often hear about and know about.
Moreover, consider the fact that the press is reporting the issue. And that we are freely discussing it.
consider there is a "press like apparatus" working very hard to polarise the issue into dead lock. "teams" were already drawn up before the issue even started.
She did the decent thing. They did force her to quit.
Certainly the United States does some morally dubious things that are comparable to some of the atrocities that e.g. China and Russia do, but I've still had the impression that oversight, transparency and freedom of speech _improve_ things.
"Oversight, transparency and freedom of speech" certainly improve things - to the extent they exist in a country - but they don't stop greedy people from lying and scheming. I'd say the same feature that makes democracy a nice system - bloodless change of power - also creates a framework for greedy people to scheme essentially risk-free. You can defraud the state and defraud the voters and retire rich, instead of getting shot by the opposing group for making too many waves. Point being, you shouldn't expect a country to not have these problems by the very virtue of being "a democracy" - and not China/Russia/Turkey/North Korea/whatnot.
People choose well or bad, but People Choose (sorry for the caps). In NK, China, Russia people don't actually choose.
In USA people 'choose less' (check out "Gerrymandering", also check on YT: last week tonight Gerrymandering).
Here's a paper i found: https://www.e-ir.info/2015/12/20/a-critical-analysis-of-the-...
There seems to be a correlation in some cases.
It doesn't appear to say she was fired. Just taken off this particular task.
Ok sure a government supervisor isn’t literally dictating what the assembly line produces and how many.
But this story is just one of dozens a day that are all about managing information, acting as a forcing function, to get back to business as usual.
Pay no mind the body political and it’s monopoly on violence!
“Simply generate wealth! Nevermind as we hand out trillions for free! You have to BUY IN! Not these guys, they can get hand outs and tax breaks! Buy in!”
Which is it? Socialism or capitalism?
Believing there’s ever been anything but a managed effort is nonsense. There is no magic or gods. It’s people validating their identity and having it go unchallenged.
Inflation is deflation for the masses. The rich get more handouts when their assets droop.
Peter Thiel recently wrote about how in the history of man there’s always been elites managing the plebs. It’s how it works!
They’re managing what we believe is correct. It’s a biologically simple trick that’s been used intuitively with great success since the first tribal kings.
Here’s the modern version: we control what raw data you see so we can equivocate. It limits real choices and experiences. And it happens constantly while the masses look away at their repetitive jobs.