JustWearScrubs: GOP chairwoman tells anti-lockdown protesters to impersonate health care workers
Last week, after images of health care workers in hospital gear facing down demonstrators protesting stay-at-home orders went viral, Dr. Kelli Ward, chairwoman of the Arizona Republican Party, urged demonstrators calling for businesses to reopen to dress in scrubs and masks to confuse reporters.
The pandemic has killed more than 55,000 people in the United States and sickened nearly 1 million Americans, including more than 6,000 in Arizona. Public health experts are overwhelmingly warning that ending the restrictions too quickly risks prolonging and worsening the outbreak. Story continues“If anyone’s status as a health care professional should be questioned it’s Dr. Kelli Ward’s, considering her unwillingness to promote the advice of health experts,” Matt Grodsky, spokesman for the Arizona Democratic Party, said in a statement.
Ward’s suggestion for protesters to impersonate health care professionals highlights part of an increasingly vocal fringe resistance to coronavirus restrictions.
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