Main stream media. You know, the ones who feed you all swill with sources like this....
This is a story about Rebekah Jones, a former dashboard manager at the Florida Department of Health (FDOH), who has single-handedly managed to convince millions of Americans that Governor Ron DeSantis has been fudging the state’s COVID-19 data.
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But it’s
not true. Indeed, it’s nonsense from start to finish. Jones isn’t a
martyr; she’s a myth-peddler. She isn’t a
scientist; she’s a fabulist. She’s not a
whistleblower; she’s a good old-fashioned confidence trickster. And, like any confidence trickster, she understands her marks better than they understand themselves. On Twitter, on cable news, in
Cosmopolitan, and beyond, Jones knows exactly which buttons to push in order to rally the gullible and get out her message.
For a year now, pretty much everyone who has criticized Jones has met the same fate as did Salemi. It doesn’t matter who they are, or what they have been arguing, the play is always the same. First, they
are called a sexist or a racist or a member of the “alt-right.”{Inertia continual John Birch Society association comes to mind] Next, it is implied that they are working with Ron DeSantis or with Vladimir Putin—or, sometimes, with both. Then they are told that they hate “science”—or, if they disagree with her or expose a given lie or confirm that she does not have the qualifications or experience she claims, that they have sold out. And, finally, they are added to Jones’s “enemies” list (she really has one, and used to
publish it online), and an attempt begins to get them kicked off Twitter or Substack or whatever portion of the Internet they are using to explain the ruse. Because a good number of the people Jones has targeted are not journalists or public figures, but scientists and public servants, such attacks work pretty well. If your career is in epidemiology, and your employer is a public university, there is little to be gained by attracting scandal....
Everywhere Jones goes—whether it’s Louisiana State University (where she got her master’s), Florida State, or the Florida Department of Health—she seems always to
leave a trail of wreckage. And somehow, it’s always someone else’s fault.