LA County Health Mocked for Promoting COVID Tests for Pets, Changes Designation of Social Media Acco

[Kamaji]

LA County Health Mocked for Promoting COVID Tests for Pets, Changes Designation of Social Media Accounts

By Bob Hoge
Aug 21, 2022

Sunday was another banner day for the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LADPH) and its embattled director, Barbara Ferrer, as they promoted vitally important COVID tests for pets. Meanwhile, they continued to avoid transparency by changing their social media forums from places where the public could comment to being for “informational purposes” only.

As I reported two weeks ago, LADPH had already cut off the ability to comment on their social media accounts in early August, but it’s interesting that they are now issuing a public statement formally changing the purpose of those accounts:

https://twitter.com/Susan_Shelley/status/1561440154614525952

Their tweet states:

This account is now for informational purposes only and, for that reason, public comments are limited to live ‘town hall’ type events it conducts wherein it solicits questions from the public during the live event. Once such events are concluded, the Department will then close the live event post to public comments. Other posts will remain closed to public comments

“Shutting off public comments seems like a great way to further erode public trust,” Bill Melugin of Fox News tweeted. Those Facebook, Twitter and Instagram comment sections are where many of the underground moms Jennifer O’Connell wrote about connected with each other, so I’m not sure that’s a coincidence.

It was odd that the department cut off comments in the first place, but dropping this strange tweet late on a sleepy Sunday morning is equally weird. Why would they do this? Could it have to do with the lawsuit filed by the Alliance of LA County Parents which claimed that doing so on an official public forum violated the First Amendment? “I will be adding a cause of action to the @LACountyParents  lawsuit based on the recent 9th Circ. decision. @lapublichealth is violating our First Amendment rights,” said attorney Julie Hamill on August 5. She and others are now exploring whether the department somehow thinks that by changing the designation of their forums they can evade accountability.

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Source:  https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2022/08/21/la-county-health-mocked-for-promoting-covid-tests-for-pets-changes-designation-of-social-media-accounts-n615685

[PeteS in CA]

Is this the same Barbara Ferrer who in early 2020 urged people to go about their business as if Covid were no big deal? https://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,412821.0.html

[DefiantMassRINO]

Are they tracking demographic data about the dogs they test to guarantee that black and brown pets are not being discriminated against?

#BlackLabsMatter