It feels inconceivable but I suppose I just don't understand the meaning of the word.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has long been idolized in the press as engaged and masterful in his Covid-19 leadership despite implementing some of the most catastrophic public health policies detrimental to health and the economy.  I believe New York has the second highest death rate per 100,000 in the nation despite the MSM accolades. 

The facts were there at the beginning, but now the pink wall is beginning to crack and acknowledgement is beginning to be made about the bad policy and possibly criminal conduct.  See Cuomo aide Melissa DeRosa admits they hid nursing home data so feds wouldn’t find out by Bernadette Hogan, Carl Campanile and Bruce Golding.  

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s top aide privately apologized to Democratic lawmakers for withholding the state’s nursing home death toll from COVID-19 — telling them “we froze” out of fear that the true numbers would “be used against us” by federal prosecutors, The Post has learned.

The stunning admission of a coverup was made by secretary to the governor Melissa DeRosa during a video conference call with state Democratic leaders in which she said the Cuomo administration had rebuffed a legislative request for the tally in August because “right around the same time, [then-President Donald Trump] turns this into a giant political football,” according to an audio recording of the two-hour-plus meeting.

While hailing Cuomo, the mainstream media has been trying to create a narrative of irresponsible policies by Florida Governor DeSantis.   A state where the death rate has been almost half that of New York's and whose economy has adapted pretty well.  

The reality of New York and Florida has been the reverse of what the mainstream media have been reporting.

One further aspect of this has been the case of Rebekah Jones in Florida who has been championed by the mainstream media as a fiercely independent and accomplished data scientist who has been fired by the Governor for her whistleblowing on the State's data.  Again, the reality is almost the inverse of what the mainstream media has been trying to push.  From The “Florida COVID-19 Whistleblower” Saga Is a Big Lie by Christina Pushaw.

At first glance, the story of Rebekah Jones—a brave “COVID-19 scientist” standing up to a corrupt right-wing machine—looks like a bombshell. When the Florida Department of Health (DoH) fired her last May, Jones claimed she had been terminated for refusing to falsify case numbers to support Governor Ron DeSantis’ plans to reopen the economy. Overnight, she became a heroine. She launched her own COVID-19 dashboard, raised half a million dollars, and gathered a Twitter army of 378,000.

Jones shot to stardom because she lent a fresh face to a “Narrative.” According to The Narrative, Florida wasn’t supposed to be winning the fight against the pandemic. It’s full of high-risk seniors, teeming with tourists, and run by a Republican who is an unapologetic ally of former President Donald Trump. To liberal intelligentsia, the idea that DeSantis could handle COVID-19 better than mask-mandating lockdown enthusiasts like Andrew Cuomo or Gavin Newsom was unthinkable.

But by May, the facts had begun contradicting The Narrative. While blue states like New York and California were devastated by COVID-19 despite draconian lockdowns, Florida did relatively well. Per capita, New York has nearly double Florida’s COVID-19 fatalities—and unlike New York, Florida has been open for months.

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Eight months later, however, Jones is making headlines again, this time facing a felony charge for breaching a government computer system. In interviews with MSNBC’s Joy Reid and Ali Velshi, CNN’s Erin Burnett, and other opinion-makers, Jones casts herself as the target of a vast right-wing conspiracy orchestrated by the governor, his loyalist judges, and his “Gestapo,” the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. The media continues lauding her. Fortune named her to its 40 Under 40. Forbes awarded her “Technology Person of the Year” for “step[ping] up to fill the vacuum left by governments during COVID-19.” She’s started another lucrative GoFundMe to “defend science.” 

Jones’ story sounds impressive. There’s just one problem: It’s not true.And here's another example where immediate reporting at the time was highly inconsistent with what was known and what has since been confirmed.

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NPR describes Jones as a “top scientist” leading Florida’s pandemic response. In fact, Jones has held three jobs in her field; all three have ended in her being terminated and criminally charged. She has a Master’s in geography from Louisiana State University, where she worked until she was fired. She was arrested in 2016 while, reportedly, trespassing on campus and attempting to steal computer equipment from her former workplace. She then lectured at Florida State University (FSU) and began researching tropical storms for a dissertation, but never earned a Ph.D. as she was suspended and fired in 2018 after her former student accused her of sexual cyberharassment. Before her termination from the DoH, she was a geographic information systems manager, overseeing the COVID-19 web portal.

It’s therefore misleading to imply Jones has specialized knowledge of infectious disease. Florida’s top Democratic official calls her “Dr. Rebekah Jones,” but Jones is no doctor. Nor is she an epidemiologist, virologist, statistician, or public health professional; the DoH has a highly qualified team of those. A technical manager, Jones didn’t have the authority or expertise to decide unilaterally how to visualize data. But when experts disagreed with her, she assumed they were wrong—or deliberately deceiving the public. 

Read the whole thing.

Once again what is reported in the New York Times or NPR is untethered from reality.  

It feels inconceivable but I suppose I just don't understand the meaning of the word.