While most health officials are trying to fight the politicization of the COVID-19 pandemic, Hyde Park’s Mayor Sharidean Flint has taken the opposite route.In the December edition of The Hyde Parker city newsletter, Flint urged citizens to do their own research before following safety guidelines such as mask wearing and distancing, citing studies to support her claims.
“They’re claims that are made by scientists and researchers, and epidemiologists and biologists,” Flint said. “So my point is, there’s more than one side to the story. … And it’s really hard to find that kind of stuff, because you can’t Google it. If you post anything on Facebook, it gets taken down. There is active censorship going on about this, and that is concerning to me.”
But according to Dr. Ed Redd, the medical director for the Bear River Health Department, there’s a false equivalence in comparing the fringe studies to health officials’ recommendations. Read the rest of the story on HJnews.com.
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