State health department tells university COVID-19 modeling team to stop work, limits data access

[prometeus]

The Arizona Department of Health Services told a team of university experts working on COVID-19 modeling to "pause" its work, an email from a department leader shows.

The modeling team of about two dozen professors at Arizona State University and the University of Arizona was compiling the most robust public model in Arizona of COVID-19.
The email, from DHS bureau chief of public health statistics S. Robert Bailey, came on Monday evening, after Gov. Doug Ducey announced plans to begin easing social distancing in the coming days.
ABC15 first reported on the email stopping the modelers' work.
The state is instead relying on a model from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. This model has not been released to the public.

And the republican stupidity just keeps growing

 

[bluesmoke]

And the republican stupidity just keeps growing

People don't understand that doing this is not stupid. It's to limit information to the people in hopes of keeping THEM stupid/ignorant and not expose the truth that the Emperor is naked and the Public Health Threat-in-Chief.

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

And the republican stupidity just keeps growing

The Tyranny of the Stupid has to stop.
Now I think I understand why some countries didn't even hesitate to start slapping these rebels with a clue upside the head.

I normally don't support such draconian tactics but again, all of us are being threatened BY The Tyranny of the Stupid, WEAPONS GRADE STUPID.

 

[jamesbyoung]

United States cases
Updated May 6 at 7:47 PM local
Confirmed
1,256,652
+23,506
Deaths
74,347
+2,426
Recovered
170,571
+6,730

 

[Oborosen]

And the republican stupidity just keeps growing

You do realize that, without explaining how any of this is actually a negative. You're only making yourself look stupid in retrospect.

 

[Phys251]

And the republican stupidity just keeps growing

Rethuglican politicians continue to support censorship of life-saving science. :thumbdown

 

[prometeus]

You do realize that, without explaining how any of this is actually a negative. You're only making yourself look stupid in retrospect.

No, what is clear that it is the ones that lack the simple understanding why this is bad are the really really stupid ones.