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In private statements that I obtained between March 18 and March 22, American Federation of Teachers (AFT) president Randi Weingarten articulated that, had Florida been ‘accurately’ reporting their positive COVID-19 cases, this would have possibly demonstrated that their numbers are actually worse than California's numbers. She floated this contention in response to being challenged on her union’s school-reopening position....When I asked for evidence to support this claim, she merely stated that ‘Deantis lies and fires people .. look what he did to the health officer[.] People don’t want to talk because they are terrorized[.]‘She then began to push the conspiracy theory that Rebekah Jones, a “top scientist,” was fired from Florida Department of Health (DoH) for refusing to falsify COVID-19 case numbers in order to support Governor Ron DeSantis’ plans to reopen the economy.According to Weingarten, Rebekah Jones did nothing wrong. All that happened was that Jones was “transparent on Covid cases and she was fired.” Her computer was “seized in a police raid“ raided only after she “continued [to] privately” record COVID-19 data in her own dashboard.Contrary to Weingarten’s beliefs and contentions, the story is entirely fictitious. Christina Pushaw, an international political consultant and writer based in Washington, DC., penned in February a piece for Human Events which debunked the Jones fantasy.
