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Barnjai's avatar

I copied and pasted the quote from the Washington Post Times about the pandemic being over and sent it to our governor here in North Carolina. I write him at least once a week and have “shared” your wisdom with him several times. I also told him that, as a leader it is especially evil to promote fear in your constituents. I never get a reply from governor Cooper’s office but I’m not giving up!

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Pastor Mike's avatar

Well I can't say the powers of the State Health Officer have never been used in some onerous ways. As the pastor of a church in Putnam County, we had the very first case in the county occur in a lady from our church. Although she had not been to church in over 3 weeks, and had attended the Azalea Festival about a week prior to symptoms, the county health department head (under the instruction and threat of the State Health Officer) call me demanding I turn over our entire membership list for contact tracing. When I refused I was threatened with arrest with power granted by the state. It all worked out in the end, but I really didn't like the local health department head having that much power.

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