02-24-2020, 01:04 PM
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Originally posted by HereOnThePrimalEdge
Punaweb,
Homeland Security Acting Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli needs your help. He can’t find a recent COVID-19 outbreak map on the internet. This is a high ranking government official whose job priority is to protect you. Send him an email, or post a note on his Twitter account if you can help him out with a link.
When I read things like this, the ongoing level of incompetence at a Federal level even surpasses our local Hawaii Island ineptitude. If COV-19 goes pandemic, we have no test kits, and supposed “acting” officials have no better information at hand than the same public websites we use in Puna. What happened to those manilla folders stamped “Classified” on them? We just might be screwed.
Homeland Security Acting Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli came under fire for asking Twitter if others had trouble accessing Johns Hopkins University's COVID-19 coronavirus map Monday.
https://www.newsweek.com/homeland-securi...us-1488863
Not sure why you choose to put a political spin on a potential plague. He was asking if there is any reason why a public (hopefully transparent) information source might be down.
Edited to add: Johns Hopkins (the source he was trying to connect to) receives billions in federal government dollars. It's not unreasonable for him to expect their web site not to behind a paywall.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/universit..._n_3165186
"Johns Hopkins University alone received nearly $1.9 billion from the federal government in 2011, more than twice as much as any other university in the country. "