A Chance to Pitch In Against Harmful Idiocy
Something you can do.
Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer is the Queen of Fearmongers, an appalling public health scold who still wears a performative mask at her regular press conferences about the dangers of Covid — and never seems to notice that people keep catching her walking around in densely packed public settings without the mask she demands everyone else go on wearing.
Ferrer, whose highest public health credential is a PhD in social welfare studies, infamously supported school mask mandates with a report co-authored by another county employee: her daughter.
Julie Hamill is a lawyer in Southern California, a solo practitioner and a newly elected school board member. On behalf of a community organization, the Alliance of Los Angeles County Parents, she’s suing Ferrer and the county health department — seeking a writ of mandate to prevent future school mask mandates. You can read her complaint here:
Next week, Hamill finally gets to sit Barbara Ferrer down for a deposition, asking her detailed and direct questions about her handling of pandemic measures.
(Brett Morrow is the Los Angeles County Public Health Department’s director of communications — the chief scold’s chief scold.)
The county is represented by SheppardMullin, a Big Law corporation “founded in 1927 and with over 1,000 attorneys across our 16 offices in North America, Europe and Asia.” Hamill is up against that, alone. She’s currently working to hire a court reporter for the depositions. You can pitch in here. I just did. The value of producing a written record of Barbara Ferrer answering direct questions about public health measures justifies the contribution.
I just contributed. I NEVER want to see a mask on a child again.
It is visceral disgust to me and brings me nothing but sorrow to see the littles ones depersoned by cowardly adults!
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