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Public Health Officials Face Wave Of Threats, Pressure Amid Coronavirus Response
Kaiser Health News ^ | June 12, 2020 | Lauren Weber and Anna Maria Barry-Jester and Michelle R. Smith

Posted on 06/15/2020 3:58:10 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat

On Thursday, Ohio’s state health director, who had armed protesters come to her house, resigned. The health officer for Orange County, California, quit Monday after weeks of criticism and personal threats from residents and other public officials over an order requiring face coverings in public.

As the pressure and scrutiny rise, many more health officials have chosen to leave or been pushed out of their jobs. A review by KHN and The Associated Press finds at least 27 state and local health leaders have resigned, retired or been fired since April across 13 states.

From North Carolina to California, they have left their posts due to a mix of backlash and stressful, nonstop working conditions, all while dealing with chronic staffing and funding shortages.

Some health officials have not been up to the job during the biggest health crisis in a century. Others previously had plans to leave or cited their own health issues.

But Lori Tremmel Freeman, CEO of the National Association of County and City Health Officials, said the majority of what she calls an “alarming” exodus resulted from increasing pressure as states reopen. Three of those 27 were members of her board and well known in the public health community — Rio Grande County’s Brown; Detroit’s senior public health adviser, Dr. Kanzoni Asabigi; and the head of North Carolina’s Gaston County Department of Health and Human Services, Chris Dobbins....“They just don’t leave like that,” Freeman said.

Public health officials are “really getting tired of the ongoing pressures and the blame game,” Freeman said. She warned that more departures could be expected in the coming days and weeks as political pressure trickles down from the federal to the state to the local level...

(Excerpt) Read more at khn.org ...


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To: lee martell

Anarcho-tyranny. Done deliberate.


21 posted on 06/15/2020 4:48:44 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Crim

“She resigned because she was about to be exposed by her mother as a total fraud and liar.”

Change mother to father and keep that thought in the back of your mind for the rest of your life.


22 posted on 06/15/2020 4:51:16 PM PDT by RBW in PA
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To: CheshireTheCat
Then, give up your power and give people their lives back. Quit acting like tin pot dictators!

You have no clue about the lives and businesses you've ruined.

23 posted on 06/15/2020 4:56:24 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: EEGator

I’m tired of my gym and barbershop being closed.


These guys must be flush with cash. .... Hope they survive.
Too many businesses were destroyed by this.


24 posted on 06/15/2020 4:58:31 PM PDT by redshawk ( I want my red balloon. ( https://youtu.be/V12H2mteniE))
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To: redshawk

I live in PA by the DE line.
I went to my old barbershop in DE, it’s gone.


25 posted on 06/15/2020 5:08:41 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: RBW in PA

I will do no such thing.


26 posted on 06/15/2020 5:12:51 PM PDT by Crim (Palin / West '16)
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To: Crim
She resigned because she was about to be exposed by her mother as a total fraud and liar.

Who is she?

27 posted on 06/15/2020 5:15:32 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: CheshireTheCat

Got to love those armed protesters when words of reason fail!


28 posted on 06/15/2020 5:16:23 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: ladyjane

Ex health director :Ohio


29 posted on 06/15/2020 5:20:13 PM PDT by Crim (Palin / West '16)
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To: CheshireTheCat

When is Dr Death Fauci going to get the hint too?


30 posted on 06/15/2020 5:25:34 PM PDT by tennmountainman (The Liberals Are Baby Killers)
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To: Karl Spooner

To Bad “We The People”
Ran to the Cattle Cars
To Be First for the
Shower Rooms provided
By Our Masters.
.
Never Again Bureaucrats!
Lockdowns are For
Prisoners and I
Am a Free Citizen!


31 posted on 06/15/2020 5:30:38 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (He Hath Not Given Us A Spirit Of Fear)
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To: olivia3boys

This is bad.


32 posted on 06/15/2020 5:51:47 PM PDT by ncpatriot
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To: EEGator

Twelve 24 hour fitness locations in the SF Bay Area announced permanent closure today. Mine was a small “express” and busy but not particularly well run so I’m not surprised.


33 posted on 06/15/2020 6:08:35 PM PDT by olivia3boys
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To: olivia3boys

Do you have LA Fitness?
I like that they have a pool and a decent weight room setup.


34 posted on 06/15/2020 6:39:16 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: CheshireTheCat
Some health officials have not been up to the job during the biggest health crisis in a century.

It’s not the biggest healthcare crisis in a century.

And if it turns out to be, it’s be cause it was manufactured and administered by the left, especially when they sent all those sick people into nursing homes to deliberately infect high risk people.

It’s a planned extermination of the most vulnerable among us, right up there next to abortion.

People are seeing through it and are sick of being used and manipulated.

And, no, this is not *just the flu.* It is a serious illness for many reasons. But the reaction by the opportunistic left is the bigger problem.

35 posted on 06/15/2020 10:46:23 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.....)
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To: ADemocratNoMore; Akron Al; arbee4bush; agrace; ATOMIC_PUNK; Badeye; big bad easter bunny; ...

OHIO PING!
Please let me know if you want on or off the Ohio Ping list.

Life has gotten in my way the last week.....I am behind on ping list.

Joey Votto says white privilege made him ‘complicit’ in George Floyd’s death in op-ed
Yahoo ^ | June 7, 2020 | Jack Baer
Posted on 6/8/2020, 7:20:50 AM by C19fan


36 posted on 06/20/2020 1:42:25 AM PDT by Lowell1775
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