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Ohiogal

(35,002 posts)
Mon Sep 14, 2020, 08:59 PM Sep 2020

Why it's so hard now to find an Ohio health director

Who would sign up to lead a politically divided state through a global pandemic, potentially facing personal attacks for professional choices?

Not Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine’s latest pick to lead the state health department: Dr. Joan Duwve.

On Friday, Duwve told a South Carolina newspaper she didn’t want to face the same “harassment” that former Ohio Department of Health Director Dr. Amy Acton’s family encountered.

“While I have dedicated my life to improving public health, my first commitment is to my family. I am a public figure,” she said in a statement provided to The State newspaper. “My family is off limits.”

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https://www.dispatch.com/news/20200914/why-its-so-hard-now-to-find-ohio-health-director

**** why did the author of this article put the word “harassment” in quotations? Dr. Acton was clearly harassed and even threatened. The treatment she endured by the Neanderthals in the state legislature and some extremists who harassed her at her home is nothing short of unconscionable. And for them to claim to be “pro life” is a frigging sick joke when a lot of them refuse to wear masks. I suppose the only “perfect” candidate in their pea brains would be a white male who gets his jollies regulating women’s’ bodies ....

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Why it's so hard now to find an Ohio health director (Original Post) Ohiogal Sep 2020 OP
I missed the quotation marks when I first read the article ladym55 Sep 2020 #1
What happened to Amy Acton was criminal imo. Buckeye_Democrat Sep 2020 #2

ladym55

(2,577 posts)
1. I missed the quotation marks when I first read the article
Tue Sep 15, 2020, 04:08 PM
Sep 2020

I guess harassment only happens to right-wing snowflakes who get their little fee-fee's hurt by being asked to wear a mask in public.

Buckeye_Democrat

(15,058 posts)
2. What happened to Amy Acton was criminal imo.
Tue Sep 15, 2020, 04:11 PM
Sep 2020

Would those threatening protests outside her house have been allowed to continue if she was a judge, or a cop? I doubt it.

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