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.
> 

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