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Weld County's health department is no longer allowed to post about COVID on social media
There could be a good reason for this, if the population of the county is so low that it is possible to identify who the person was who contracted COVID-19. That would apply to medical information; i.e., the number of new cases this week. I don't see why social posts with only general information should be banned. The number of vaccinations administered in the county shouldn't be too revealing of people's private medical information.
If 46 county residents died of COVID-19 last month, it has a sizeable population. Sure enough, the ban was at the behest of anti-vaxxers.
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Weld County’s health department is no longer allowed to post about COVID on social media
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Weld County’s health department is no longer allowed to post about COVID on social media
46 people died from the coronavirus in Weld County last month. The commissioners say they'll no longer approve Facebook posts about vaccination against the disease.
The NoCo Optimist and Kelly Ragan
6:08 PM MST on Dec 13, 2021
Weld County’s commissioners will no longer publish information about COVID-19 on social media following pushback on posts made to encourage residents to get vaccinated against the disease.
Three members of the public approached the board on Nov. 24, reprimanding the commissioners for posts on the Weld County Government Facebook page – a page also used by the Weld County health department – regarding vaccines.
“I am sick of these Facebook posts that the Weld County Government page is putting on Facebook advertising this vaccine, this gene therapy, to our children,” said Sonia Miller, a Greeley resident. “This is toxic. This is poisonous.”
Miller went on to say the vaccines were dangerous and causing children to have heart attacks.
“There is blood on your hands for this, all of you,” she said. “You will not be held harmless by the public.”
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To read more of this story visit thenocooptimist.com
Weld County’s health department is no longer allowed to post about COVID on social media
46 people died from the coronavirus in Weld County last month. The commissioners say they'll no longer approve Facebook posts about vaccination against the disease.
The NoCo Optimist and Kelly Ragan
6:08 PM MST on Dec 13, 2021
Weld County’s commissioners will no longer publish information about COVID-19 on social media following pushback on posts made to encourage residents to get vaccinated against the disease.
Three members of the public approached the board on Nov. 24, reprimanding the commissioners for posts on the Weld County Government Facebook page – a page also used by the Weld County health department – regarding vaccines.
“I am sick of these Facebook posts that the Weld County Government page is putting on Facebook advertising this vaccine, this gene therapy, to our children,” said Sonia Miller, a Greeley resident. “This is toxic. This is poisonous.”
Miller went on to say the vaccines were dangerous and causing children to have heart attacks.
“There is blood on your hands for this, all of you,” she said. “You will not be held harmless by the public.”
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To read more of this story visit thenocooptimist.com
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