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A sad op-ed from a county health director from Missouri.  Makes me think about the parents of Sandy Hook victims who won defamation lawsuits against conspiracy theory groupies.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/20...oronavirus

In case anyone is thinking this kind of thing is peculiar to flyover country, a reminder of how health officers are treated in California: https://calmatters.org/health/coronaviru...-pandemic/

How many counties are there in the US?
And this article picked the most "notorious" - and while some are obviously deplorable and out of line, some are perfectly fine in my book (especially the taking out of a full page ad asking Cody to donate her salary to those in need as a result of her orders).  Why is it okay to lobby elected decisionmakers, but not try and influence Dear Bureaucrats?  And before you answer, try and keep it principled and think of the alternate possibility - i.e., if the County health official said "anything goes, no need for masks, etc."  Don't you think it's fair game to write letters, take out ads, what have you to try and get them to think sensibly?

Threatening officials is not an acceptable form of lobbying. Nothing to discuss.

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A sad op-ed from a county health director from Missouri.  Makes me think about the parents of Sandy Hook victims who won defamation lawsuits against conspiracy theory groupies.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/20...oronavirus

In case anyone is thinking this kind of thing is peculiar to flyover country, a reminder of how health officers are treated in California: https://calmatters.org/health/coronaviru...-pandemic/

How many counties are there in the US?
And this article picked the most "notorious" - and while some are obviously deplorable and out of line, some are perfectly fine in my book (especially the taking out of a full page ad asking Cody to donate her salary to those in need as a result of her orders).  Why is it okay to lobby elected decisionmakers, but not try and influence Dear Bureaucrats?  And before you answer, try and keep it principled and think of the alternate possibility - i.e., if the County health official said "anything goes, no need for masks, etc."  Don't you think it's fair game to write letters, take out ads, what have you to try and get them to think sensibly?

Threatening officials is not an acceptable form of lobbying. Nothing to discuss.