Sean, thank you for all the excellent updates you have been providing. Status.pr is disturbing since there is no context to the stats offered on this page. 49% of supermarkets may be open, but with nothing on their shelves. And 11k refugees? Who are they trying to kid with a number like that.
-Barb +1.808.385.1677 mauig...@earthlink.net Written on the move, apologies for any errors. > On Sep 29, 2017, at 8:15 AM, Sean Donelan <s...@donelan.com> wrote: > > Career federal employees are taught to write situation reports in very boring > language with just the facts known. Nevertheless, after reading lots of > situation reports, you start to notice when the bubureaucratic language > changes. Perhaps the most famous was the commander of Apollo 13's report > "Houston, We have a problem." > > Puerto Rico has announced a new web site with current status: > > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__status.pr_&d=DwIBAg&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=eFHwbDul3gCazAMQCZYPBUi5FR29U9pfCEZA3KSPp1U&m=8QGAW2zyikBvyqdqem1ufMWHN1wmpYs5CHOkKkgxHuY&s=zr44KzVhB4CMsDiVsjPo0RNdkIMb14m0WxW3UV60JYY&e= > > > However, in the last 24 hours I've noticed some agency situation reports used > different statistics to report "happy, happy, joy, joy" stuff. In the > bureaucratic world, this is very concerning, such as when the Veterans > Administration was misreporting appointment waiting times to look better. > > You can't fix problems, if the real situation isn't being reported accurately > to senior leadership even if its bad news. >
