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alp227

(32,064 posts) Tue Jun 16, 2020, 11:04 PM Jun 2020

San Jose: Public Health Officer Sara Cody receiving threats over her handling of coronavirus

Source: The Mercury News

SAN JOSE — Dr. Sara Cody, Santa Clara County’s public health officer who has faced criticism for her cautious approach to lifting stay-at-home orders, has also been the target of personal threats.

“We are aware of the threats made against Dr. Cody and it is under investigation,” Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Sgt. Michael Low said in a statement Tuesday.

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In an interview Tuesday, Cody did not address the threats specifically, but said “we’ve all taken more heat than we usually take. I try as much as possible to keep my head down.”

Cody is credited with leading the Bay Area-wide shelter-in-place order in mid-March — the first in the country and days ahead of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s statewide order. When Newsom began loosening restrictions on church services and hair salons statewide at the end of May, however, Cody cautioned that he was moving too fast and Santa Clara County would proceed more cautiously.

Read more: https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/06/16/san-jose-public-health-officer-sara-cody-receiving-threats-over-her-handling-of-coronavirus-closures/

The title is missing "closures" in the end due to character limits.

To quote Jimmy Buffett, "some people claim that there's a woman to blame." It seems that women are the targets of violent threats by the Karens and Chads of the country in response to shelter in place orders. See also: Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and AG Dana Nessel, Orange County, CA Chief Health Officer Dr. Nichole Quick, and now Sara Cody.

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San Jose: Public Health Officer Sara Cody receiving threats over her handling of coronavirus (Original Post) alp227 Jun 2020 OP

Public health workers fighting COVID-19 are threatened, forced out of jobs TomCADem Jun 2020 #1

Fools. Stay strong Dr Cody, you're doing the right thing. iluvtennis Jun 2020 #2

Sickening. Same thing happened here in Orange County, CA. SunSeeker Jun 2020 #3

They need to be held accountable as I posted below. Cha Jun 2020 #5

Indeed. These flat-earthers are literally killing people. nt SunSeeker Jun 2020 #9

Idiots Need to be held Accountable for Cha Jun 2020 #4

Laura Ingraham Calls Anthony Fauci 'Medical Deep State' TomCADem Jun 2020 #6

laura ingram has already proven herself to be Cha Jun 2020 #7

We're fighting two outbreaks: COVID and stupidity. Initech Jun 2020 #8

Title is missing "...from psychopaths" jorgevlorgan Jun 2020 #10

TomCADem

(17,390 posts)

1. Public health workers fighting COVID-19 are threatened, forced out of jobs

Reply to alp227 (Original post)

Tue Jun 16, 2020, 11:35 PM

Jun 2020

Dr. Cody is not the only one. Trump's supporters have made such threats to try influence policy in favor of reopening.

Section 802 of the USA PATRIOT Act (Pub. L. No. 107-52) expanded the definition of terrorism to cover ""domestic,"" as opposed to international, terrorism. A person engages in domestic terrorism if they do an act "dangerous to human life" that is a violation of the criminal laws of a state or the United States, if the act appears to be intended to: (i) intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination or kidnapping.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/public-health-workers-fighting-covid-19-are-threatened-forced-out-of-jobs/ar-BB15oHFS?ocid=msedgntp

As the director of the Rio Grande County Public Health Department in rural Colorado, she was working 12- and 14-hour days, struggling to respond to the pandemic with only five full-time employees for more than 11,000 residents. Case counts were rising.

She was already at odds with county commissioners, who were pushing to loosen public health restrictions in late May, against her advice. She had previously clashed with them over data releases and control and had haggled over a variance regarding reopening businesses.

But she reasoned that standing up for public health principles was worth it, even if she risked losing the job that allowed her to live close to her hometown and help her parents with their farm.

Then came the Facebook post: a photo of her and other health officials with comments about their weight and references to “armed citizens” and “bodies swinging from trees.” The commissioners had asked her to meet with them the next day. She intended to ask them for more support. Instead, she was fired.

iluvtennis

(19,880 posts)

2. Fools. Stay strong Dr Cody, you're doing the right thing.

Reply to alp227 (Original post)

Tue Jun 16, 2020, 11:48 PM

Jun 2020

SunSeeker

(51,736 posts)

3. Sickening. Same thing happened here in Orange County, CA.

Reply to alp227 (Original post)

Wed Jun 17, 2020, 12:23 AM

Jun 2020

Local Republican crackpots threatened our health director at her house over her mandatory mask order. She quit. Then the Republican-dominated Board of Supervisors rescinded her mandatory mask order. All this while the number of people with Covid-19 in Orange County hospitals has been steadily increasing. This refusal to follow science is literally costing Americans their lives.

Cha

(297,767 posts)

5. They need to be held accountable as I posted below.

Reply to SunSeeker (Reply #3)

Wed Jun 17, 2020, 12:40 AM

Jun 2020

SunSeeker

(51,736 posts)

9. Indeed. These flat-earthers are literally killing people. nt

Reply to Cha (Reply #5)

Wed Jun 17, 2020, 01:27 AM

Jun 2020

Cha

(297,767 posts)

4. Idiots Need to be held Accountable for

Reply to alp227 (Original post)

Wed Jun 17, 2020, 12:38 AM

Jun 2020

their Brainwashed Stupidity at Lobbing Threats at people who don't fit into their brainwashed scheme of things

TomCADem

(17,390 posts)

6. Laura Ingraham Calls Anthony Fauci 'Medical Deep State'

Reply to Cha (Reply #4)

Wed Jun 17, 2020, 12:41 AM

Jun 2020

Fox News and the rest of right wing media has gone all in on making health care professionals the scapegoats for the pandemic.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/laura-ingraham-fauci-donald-trump-rally_n_5ee8661dc5b6b735a648667c

Fox News’ Laura Ingraham on Monday disparagingly referred to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, as “the medical deep state.”

The host of “The Ingraham Angle” also urged President Donald Trump’s campaign to ignore the “alarmist COVID drivel” ahead of his planned indoor rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Public health officials have warned Saturday’s event at the 19,000-capacity BOK Center could prove catastrophic in spreading the virus that has now killed more than 118,000 people nationwide. But Ingraham, a staunch defender of Trump, argued the warnings were bunk.

She mocked Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and member of the White House coronavirus task force, for an interview with Britain’s Daily Telegraph in which he warned that “we could get back to some degree of normality within a year or so, but I don’t think it’s this winter or fall.”