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Armed police raid home of Florida scientist fired over Covid-19 data
Rebekah Jones, the Florida data scientist embroiled in a dispute with the state's Republican governor over the handling of coronavirus figures, had her home raided on Monday by armed police who confiscated her computers.
In a stream of posts on Twitter, Jones posted a video of the raid that showed state police carrying handguns escorting her out of her Tallahassee home. She can be heard saying: "He just pointed a gun at my children," with her husband and two children apparently upstairs at the time.
Jones claimed in her tweets that the raid was the work of Ron DeSantis, the governor with whom she has clashed repeatedly since she was fired by the state's department of health in May in a row over Covid-19 data. She compared the incident to sending "the gestapo", adding: "This is what happens to scientists who do their job honestly. This is what happens to people who speak truth to power."
The Florida department of law enforcement confirmed they had entered Jones's house on a search warrant. But in a statement the department said the action was related to a recent computer hack of the health department website, in which emergency response coordinators were sent an unauthorised message.
Also at CNN, The Verge, and The Hill.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by c0lo on Wednesday December 09 2020, @08:46AM (5 children)
They aren't perfect, but they do work. Couple them with other countermeasures and you can even get rid of Covid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 09 2020, @02:56PM (1 child)
Just believe hard enough.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 09 2020, @06:06PM
I'm giving her all she's got captain, the irony compensators just will na hold out!
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 09 2020, @08:53PM (2 children)
We do need to be absolutely hones about masks though. There is no evidence that it protects the wearer, but an abundance of evidence that it protects those around people wearing masks. Surgeons have use them for a reason and it's not to protect themselves. People in several asian countries have worn masks as a normal cultural thing to protect others whenever they are sick. They work if we all wear them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 10 2020, @08:36AM (1 child)
Name a country that mandatory masks protected from the "second wave". (No, China is not that thing.)
Name a country where mandating them, on its own, caused a reduction in daily coronavirus cases.
Absence of such examples, is an abundance of experimental evidence that contradicts your claim. No number of theorizers can beat a worldwide experiment going on for half an year.
And that reason is bacteria. The difference between bacteria and viruses should be well known at this point in time, even to you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 11 2020, @12:55AM
Why? That is not a scientific experiment. A a simple experiment on the filtering efficiency on masks will disprove your irrational thinking. Those are made regularly and the masks that I have has an ~87% filtering efficiency tested by an independet lab. The reason we can't say that they protect the wearer is that particles from the surroundings will stick to the outer surface and transfer to the hands when you touch the mask and particles sticking to the outer surface has a much higher likelyhood of being slowly sucked in. Think about just the act of coughing in your hand/arm which has been in our culture forever, we do that to slow the velocity of the particles and keep them from spreading too far, masks work in a similar, but in a more efficient and controlled way.
When you have the data from those experiments and you still wonder the questions you asked, you should then look for other possible reasons to your observations and test if those hold true. You can't just dismiss scientific tests on masks which are performed every single day in controlled environments, because you feel like it.