We’re not done with the first wave… COVID-19 cases are on the rise in many states, including California, Florida, Arizona and Texas, but conspiracy-minded demonstrators are fighting against the use of masks, putting healthcare workers and the public at risk. National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) president Sal Rosselli is available for comment on these two conflicting and disturbing trends.
Only yesterday (Tues.), profane protestors — claiming that COVID-19 is a "fraud-demic, a scam-demic, a plan-demic" — shouted down healthcare workers, grocery workers and other essential workers in Orange County, California. With signs claiming "Masks Suck,” angry demonstrators prevented essential workers from being heard during a press conference called by the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW), the Orange County Labor Federation and other unions representing essential workers.
The LA Times reported that anti-mask protestors "tried to hit them [essential workers] in the head with their signs," citing an eyewitness report from Luis Aleman of the Labor Federation. In a separate incident, an 82-year old woman wearing a maskwhile shopping in Fountain Valley, Calif., found "F*** your mask, You scared, b****" scrawled on her car.
Essential workers are asking Orange County officials to reinstate a rule requiring that facemasks be worn in public places, in accordance with public health recommendations from the US Centers for Disease Control, Orange County had a mask-wearing order in place, but it was rescinded following the resignation of county health officer Dr. Nicole Quick, who had been the subject of a public death threat and demonstrations depicting her as a Nazi.
COVID-19 has claimed 233 lives in Orange County and more than 112,000 in the United States.
Only yesterday (Tues.), profane protestors — claiming that COVID-19 is a "fraud-demic, a scam-demic, a plan-demic" — shouted down healthcare workers, grocery workers and other essential workers in Orange County, California. With signs claiming "Masks Suck,” angry demonstrators prevented essential workers from being heard during a press conference called by the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW), the Orange County Labor Federation and other unions representing essential workers.
The LA Times reported that anti-mask protestors "tried to hit them [essential workers] in the head with their signs," citing an eyewitness report from Luis Aleman of the Labor Federation. In a separate incident, an 82-year old woman wearing a maskwhile shopping in Fountain Valley, Calif., found "F*** your mask, You scared, b****" scrawled on her car.
Essential workers are asking Orange County officials to reinstate a rule requiring that facemasks be worn in public places, in accordance with public health recommendations from the US Centers for Disease Control, Orange County had a mask-wearing order in place, but it was rescinded following the resignation of county health officer Dr. Nicole Quick, who had been the subject of a public death threat and demonstrations depicting her as a Nazi.
COVID-19 has claimed 233 lives in Orange County and more than 112,000 in the United States.
