The Commish
Footballguy
Wonder what happened to following the guidelines? I mean, I don't REALLY wonder and it's totally expected but man. Take it upon yourselves to do the right thing guys...stay safe 
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Apparently a bunch of people are fine with 2300 deaths per day from Covid 19.Wonder what happened to following the guidelines? I mean, I don't REALLY wonder and it's totally expected but man. Take it upon yourselves to do the right thing guys...stay safe
Smart or Lucky? How Florida Dodged the Worst of Coronavirus
I've been critical in this thread of DeSantis' response, but he may just manage to pull this off. I will definitely admit that, even in Miami, things so far haven't gotten as bad as I feared they might. The article even mentions that The Villages, which I was sure would be Ground Zero, has only had 72 total cases.
The Commish
Footballguy
The only "dumb" things he's done in my view are some of the things considered "essential" and not shutting down the spring breakers. The spring breakers thing wasn't going to be a direct impact to us as a state, but how crappy would it be to send a bunch of people back to their states after being in the petri dish of our beaches?
JamieMurphy
Footballguy
Also grossly under reporting the deaths could be a contributing factor to the “success”:
https://www.wftv.com/news/local/department-health-underreporting-covid-19-deaths-orange-osceola-counties/EXM4XIHMCJDABBPBJD3JIVYL4U/
https://www.wftv.com/news/local/department-health-underreporting-covid-19-deaths-orange-osceola-counties/EXM4XIHMCJDABBPBJD3JIVYL4U/
The Commish
Footballguy
Well this is just dumb. I haven't cared all that much about death rate in terms of "success" in any of this. Primarily because the testing has been so bad and we still aren't confident when this whole thing started here. Death rate and/or deaths are based on incomplete stats. I'll look at those after we have this for a couple seasons and we can better capture the numbers. What my focus has been is on the number of positive cases and spread....without the virus, one can't die from the virus.
JamieMurphy
Footballguy
If you're wondering why Patients in Florida is trending, it is because Florida had it's first suspected cases of covid19 in early Jan. It was only reported two months later. The Health Department website that published this data mysteriously went down yesterday, only to pop back up again with the data scrubbed. If you believe anything DeSantis and this regime are reporting I got swamp land to sell you:
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/20200505/coronavirus-florida-patients-in-florida-had-symptoms-as-early-as-january
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/20200505/coronavirus-florida-patients-in-florida-had-symptoms-as-early-as-january
That article says multiple times "had symptoms or a positive result"....
If they don't have concrete evidence of positive results and are only looking at symptoms, that doesn't say much at all.
Osaurus
Footballguy
Joe Mammy
Footballguy
John Morgan just made an offer to go after the company that screwed the state for $77M in the unemployment scandal. Morgan said he wouldn’t charge the state anything for his firm’s work, and any recouped money should go to the unemployed.
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On another note, Nikki Fried is blaming DeSantis and Rick Scott.
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On another note, Nikki Fried is blaming DeSantis and Rick Scott.
Punxsutawney Phil
Footballguy
Good ol John Morgan gonna help out everyone just like he did with medical marijuana? Failed to mention or disclose his interest in one of the half dozen companies that have been allowed to sell it. Then conveniently cant come up with the money to get recreational on the ballot. This guy is the king of ambulance chasers. I don't trust a thing he says.Joe Mammy said:
Also, I'm not 100% sure about this, but wtf is he talking about $77million dollar rip off? I'm assuming it was the cost of the antiquated system we have in place. Iirc, this is the same system that they had during the 2008 recession. Unless they recently paid $77 mil for an upgrade, is he talking about the price paid decades ago? I'm sure the tech company hosed the tax payers as they normally do, but is he expecting a decades old software system to work flawlessly? Throwing around the term "rip-off" is a charlatan move to rule up the audience and get them on his side.
I don't think we got "ripped off". I think politicians failed to prioritize a system that could handle the amount of people unemployed during a global epidemic. Maybe we should have been paying for a new system instead paying tourism dollars to Pitbull, doing Everglades restoration, building new roads. Who knows? Quite the dilemma the politicians finding themselves in after the fact.
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Interesting book excerpt:
How Desmond Meade built a movement that restored voting rights in Florida — almost
How Desmond Meade built a movement that restored voting rights in Florida — almost
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Osaurus
Footballguy
I get the sensation that the higher ups learned data dissemination procedures from places with decidedly less freedom of the press.
The Commish
Footballguy
Not really a surprise. We are starting to see hotspots pop up. My MIL works as an ER nurse out in Belle Glade (by the lake) and they are seeing significant spikes at the hospital. It's getting pretty bad. Of course, that's not the most affluent part of Palm Beach County, so it probably won't get on the news...hope I'm wrong.
I'm working at a hospital(electrical projects are still happening) in Martin County, and they are taking no chances. Indiantown is apparently getting hit hard now as well, and that's a poorer area here. It did make the news here, but my main point of contention with this supposed data suppression is the fact that if it is happening, they're intentionally putting lives at risk for the sake of the economy.
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The Commish
Footballguy
Well, yeah. We always knew that would be the choice and how they'd choose though right? I'm pretty confident it's happening all over the place.
That's the problem. Money is not more important than people, but apparently the fact that we're losing almost a 9/11's worth of people about every day and a half isn't enough of a deterrent.
The Commish
Footballguy
Preaching to the choir brother! The motivations of our state government became crystal clear when it was announced that Florida was open to any/all sporting teams to have their seasons here. "Everyone is welcome".
Osaurus
Footballguy
This article hits home for me bc I work in data and I create these types of dashboards. My client is a state agency and while I only provide tools for data consumption, there is often an assumption that when “necessary”, we should stray from objectivity. I try to remove myself from situations like that and give the responsibility to the decision makers. Not surprisingly, they don’t often assume it.
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Florida is a tourism driven state, but there has to be a better way to get through this.
The Commish
Footballguy
In my view, the best way through for ANY state is to be open and honest and let the consumer decide on their own. From the beginning I've been an advocate of the "bubble up" approach and having enough accurate information in the hands of the people so they drive this and businesses adapt to their decisions. Obviously, that isn't happening, but that to me seems like the best way to go about it. And yes, I am fully aware that this approach will mean many businesses go out of business.
Right, economically speaking, it's going to do damage, and some businesses will shutter. The same thing happens after storms as well, and while it sucks, these things happen. A bankruptcy is a bad thing, but you're far better off with your life and a chance to start another business instead of the alternative. This virus isn't going anywhere, not until there's either an effective virus, or people realize that selfish behavior is prolonging this needlessly.
Strong words from Rebekah Jones, PhD in geography from FSU, who was managing the acclaimed dashboard:
>> "As a word of caution, I would not expect the new team to continue the same level of accessibility and transparency that I made central to the process during the first two months. After all, my commitment to both is largely (arguably entirely) the reason I am no longer managing it." <<
I really don't want to buy into conspiracies, so I hope these reports aren't true, but man, it's definitely something we need to keep an eye on. Also, to @The Commish's point, I also really hope that the fact that poorer communities like Belle Glade are getting hit hard allows everyone else to feel like they can ignore it. It would be truly monstrous if we ended up using low-wage workers as cannon fodder in our efforts to reopen the economy, particularly if Congress also gives companies legal impunity.
The Commish
Footballguy
This is turning quickly......
The Rebekah Jones story gets more interesting. Fired for insubordination. An ongoing stalking case against her. She says she wrote every line of code in the dashboard, which was praised by Dr. Birx.
https://amp.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article242851256.html
https://amp.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article242851256.html
The Commish
Footballguy
My wife's family is there...in the 20+ years I have known that town, it's really gone down hill. It's brutal.
I have a friend who teaches music out there, or did before everything went sideways.
Punxsutawney Phil
Footballguy
At the end of the day all the numbers should be available to scrutinize to see if what she is saying is legit.
rustycolts
Footballguy
Steve Spurrier on Fred Taylor maybe?Joe Mammy said:
the moops
Footballguy
Sounds awful thereThe Commish said:
For a time during the early to mid 1980s, the city had the highest rate of AIDS infection per capita (37 cases in a population of roughly 19,000) in the United States.[14] According to the FBI, in 2003, the city had the second highest violent crime rate in the country at 298 per 10,000 residents. In 2010, the Palm Beach County sheriff's office estimated that half of the young men in Belle Glade between the ages of 18 and 25 had felony convictions
In 2000, the median income for a household in the city was $22,715, and the median income for a family was $26,756.
Punxsutawney Phil
Footballguy
The Commish
Footballguy
Since I've been with my wife, I've watched the town turn into a slum basically. You can't park your car in your driveway or it WILL get broken into. They had city police at one time, but now it's all patrolled by the county and you might see a cop once a week.
Joe Mammy
Footballguy
Osaurus
Footballguy
Something else. Once the dashboard is created, it’s just a matter of updating the data. I have no idea how the data is aggregated so that might be where her time was spent.
Joe Mammy
Footballguy
Now we know:
According to the governor, Jones was dismissed from her position because of those actions along with “a bunch of different reasons.”
DeSantis also went after Jones for charges that appear to be unrelated to her position with the state.
“Come to find out, she’s also under active criminal charges in the State of Florida. She’s being charged with cyberstalking and cyber sexual harassment,” the governor said. “I’ve asked the Department of Health to explain to me how someone would be allowed to be charged with that and continue on because this was many months ago. I have a zero-tolerance policy for sexual harassment.”
"She's not a data scientist"
Joe Mammy
Footballguy
If you watch the video in that link you'll see a few hours ago DeSantis standing 2 feet away from Pence with neither wearing a mask.
FL must be in the clear!
He also stated emphatically that he has zero tolerance for sexual harassment.
He should be getting a call any minute from his buddy in the white house ("go easy on that stuff, you know where I like to grab 'em").
The Commish
Footballguy
Is this going to be the "she was insubordinate and modified the data" where "modified the data" means didn't alter it as they wanted kind of thing? I was good with how the state was progressing until this nonsense appeared. This is turning into a ####show quickly.
Punxsutawney Phil
Footballguy
I want to hear from the dude she is stalking and sexually harassing.
The Commish
Footballguy
The DeSantis response to the questions seemed normal 
Yeah, he's attacking her and not really addressing the issue at hand.The DeSantis response to the questions seemed normal
Makes me want to believe the girl who's parents couldn't spell over DeSantis.
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