“The time has come,” says retiring San Diego County Public Health Officer and the Union-Tribune’s 2020 San Diegan of the Year Wilma Wooten. “I did what I think history will regard great as work guiding …
July 12, 2024
Woo-ten in happier days. “Goodness, what a rush it was to slap down some anti-vaxx, anti-mask, anti-science whack-job with the power of the regulatory state. We got people fired. We shut down their businesses and locked them in their homes. We kept surfers from surfing, and believers from going to church, all in the name of public health! The power of it! The sheer, unadulterated power!”
Posted July 10, 2024
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