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Top DHS official can't find key coronavirus resource, asks Twitter for help

So glad to see our government is on top of the coronavirus outbreak! Well, Rush Limbaugh thinks COVID-19 is just the common cold, and he has a Presidential Medal of Freedom, so I’m sure we have nothing to worry about.

Acting Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli
@HomelandKen
Has the Johns Hopkins map of the coronavirus stopped working for other people, or just me? https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6 …

Acting Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli
@HomelandKen
I just tried again, and it looks like Johns Hopkins put the information behind a membership wall of some kind. Seems like bad timing to stop helping the world with this (previously) useful resource. Here's hoping it goes back up soon.

Twitter, of course, was eager to help him out:

Ronald Klain
@RonaldKlain
The @JohnsHopkins map is a great tool. But when I coordinated the Ebola response in 2014-15, I got two briefings a day from the CIA ... and never crowd-sourced the response on @Twitter.

Has the Johns Hopkins map of the coronavirus stopped working for other people, or just me? https://t.co/36uda8fm6P

— Acting Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli (@HomelandKen) February 24, 2020

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Wolverine 2020
@WolverineResist
America, here’s the dude who’s in charge of protecting us from a pandemic.

DebbieMaute *trumpISIMPEACHED*
@MauteDebbie
You're on the CoVid19 task force? For our government? Resign. This should freak people out! The incompetence of these folks is beyond belief!

Sarah Reese Jones
@PoliticusSarah
Seriously? This is shamefully incompetent. Peoples lives are at stake.

It would behoove you to call in someone who knows what they’re doing.

HawaiiDelilah™
@HawaiiDelilah
Replying to @HomelandKen
With this crew in charge, we're all going to die.

Captain Renault
@JohnMonch
"Sorry, couldn't respond to a potential pandemic. There was a paywall."

Oh, and this will give you a fuzzy, warm feeling, too:

Richard Blumenthal
@SenBlumenthal
This morning’s classified coronavirus briefing should have been made fully open to the American people—they would be as appalled & astonished as I am by the inadequacy of preparedness & prevention.

Yeah, it’s just thousands of people’s lives at stake. Never mind. Nothing to see here. What we really need in government are more Trump loyalists who don’t know fuck all about doing their jobs. If I get sick, I just hope the government’s pandemic response centers don’t run out of leeches.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/25/1921878/-DHS-official-can-t-find-coronavirus-outbreak-map-asks-Twitter-for-help?utm_campaign=trending