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Rebekah Jones Admits She Was Never Asked to Delete COVID Deaths in Florida
National Review ^ | May 21, 2021 | By CHARLES C. W. COOKE

Posted on 05/21/2021 5:31:25 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines

On Twitter last night, Rebekah Jones confirmed ...That she was not, in fact, asked to delete COVID deaths in Florida. In a now-deleted tweet, Jones wrote: “Deleting deaths was never something I was asked to do. I’ve never claimed it was.”

But Jones has claimed it....Jones has made the claim that she was instructed to edit the raw data over and over again. In February, she reiterated that “(Florida’s deputy secretary of health, Dr. Shamarial Roberson) asked me to change numbers and delete records to present a rosier picture of Florida’s pandemic than reality.” In April, she repeated her claim that “Roberson asked me to go into the raw data and manually alter figures.”

This week, though, Jones inadvertently confirmed that she did not, in fact, have the ability to do that. As part of the 10,000 word screed Jones wrote after my piece was published, she linked to a snippet of code that shows clearly that her dashboard did not interact directly with the state’s database, but instead utilized Excel files that other people at the Florida Department of Health had put on a network drive.

Or, put another way: Jones confirmed this week that she has been lying about the role she played in the department. And, once she’d done that, there was nothing that she could do except to back off her main claim. No direct access to the database means no ability to delete data from the database. No ability to delete data from the database means no claim that she was asked to delete data from the database. No claim that she was asked to delete data from the database means no scandal.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; US: Florida
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1 posted on 05/21/2021 5:31:25 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Never “asked”

Ok, were you TOLD to delete them?


2 posted on 05/21/2021 5:32:25 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Dr. Rebekah? PhD and health database engineer supreme?


3 posted on 05/21/2021 5:33:23 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Such a loser to lie about something like this.


4 posted on 05/21/2021 5:35:23 PM PDT by boycott
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Jones is 100% nutjob. Really crazy. Stalker, too.


5 posted on 05/21/2021 5:40:54 PM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Convention Of States is our only hope now! Desantis 2024!!!)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

A real head case, this one.


6 posted on 05/21/2021 5:43:57 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth.)
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To: boycott

Will she ever be prosecuted for telling these lies?
What are the odds?
I’m not talking about a terse letter put into her personal files!


7 posted on 05/21/2021 6:04:13 PM PDT by lee martell
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"Will she ever be prosecuted for telling these lies?

What are the odds?"

Zero to none

8 posted on 05/21/2021 6:05:55 PM PDT by chief lee runamok (Anti Socialist Derelict at Large)
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To: Secret Agent Man

I think you should change your handle from “Secret Agent Man” to “Get Smart.”

The point here is that Jones lied about the FL undercounting COVID deaths in an effort to attack DeSantis’s response and has now admitted she lied.


9 posted on 05/21/2021 6:11:30 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines (Their side circles the wagons. Our side revs up the bus)
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Is this the same person that said the police raided her home with guns drawn and were pointing them at her kids?

Sounds like she has a similar job to mine (except I don’t deal with COVID deaths); I receive spreadsheets of data from the database and can sort and delete them at will and can tell people ‘here’s the numbers’. The database itself isn’t touched, but what I give out can be manipulated.


10 posted on 05/21/2021 6:24:11 PM PDT by Spirit of Liberty (Idiots are of two kinds: those who try to be smart and those who think they are smart.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

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11 posted on 05/21/2021 6:29:13 PM PDT by sauropod (Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
This week, though, Jones inadvertently confirmed that she did not, in fact, have the ability to do that. As part of the 10,000 word screed Jones wrote after my piece was published, she linked to a snippet of code that shows clearly that her dashboard did not interact directly with the state’s database, but instead utilized Excel files that other people at the Florida Department of Health had put on a network drive.

Or, put another way: Jones confirmed this week that she has been lying about the role she played in the department. And, once she’d done that, there was nothing that she could do except to back off her main claim. No direct access to the database means no ability to delete data from the database. No ability to delete data from the database means no claim that she was asked to delete data from the database. No claim that she was asked to delete data from the database means no scandal.

12 posted on 05/21/2021 7:40:00 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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Bookmark


13 posted on 05/21/2021 8:36:01 PM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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Has she been ARRESTED??


14 posted on 05/22/2021 3:17:48 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Secret Agent Man
Jones confirmed this week that she has been lying about the role she played in the department.

DeSantis needs to dump as many liberal bimbos as is legally allowed... they lie, they cheat, they make excuses, they're disgusting... and one day they'll turn to him and say, 'I felt uncomfortable once when YOU were in the room'... DUMP THE LIARS WHILE YOU CAN.

15 posted on 05/22/2021 9:34:52 AM PDT by GOPJ (Liz Cheney: There was NO VOTER FRAUD Winston. YOU agree Winston? How many fingers Winston...?)
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