Re:Rebekah Jones' firing the Covid clickbait the media dream...
by perl4ever on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @06:48PM
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What if what was going on behind the scenes was she was told to do something unethical or her past would be revealed? And now it's being done, because she balked.
Re:Rebekah Jones' firing the Covid clickbait the media dream...
by downerending on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @07:42PM
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I thought I was paranoid, but I bow to your skills. :-)
If I walked the earth looking for someone who really cared about the date field in some state's pandemic database, I think it would be a long walk.
Re:Rebekah Jones' firing the Covid clickbait the media dream...
by perl4ever on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @08:15PM
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Nobody cared in advance; I'm assuming it is a manufactured controversy, but I'm just speculating that it started with a database of dirt on public employees that someone used to create the situation, as part of long running efforts to create chaos. Not with some random person doing something for no reason.
The site is based on ArcGIS, and Jones' PhD is in geography.
The claim is that the "state's official epidemiologist" asked for data export to be disabled until they verified the dates in the data.
According to the administration, she was fired for "a repeated course of insubordination".
Perhaps most intriguingly, she was previously arrested for battery on a police officer and resisting arrest at LSU. She had also been previously charged with three felonies, including robbery, and a misdemeanor case of "sexual cyberstalking".
I hope other sources will chase down that last bit, but if it holds up, it would seem to support the idea that she decided to (figuratively) set everything on fire on her way out.