When the pandemic started, health care workers were our heroes early on. Communities collectively howled and banged pots in support of their sacrifice.
Fast forward to what will be our third year in the pandemic, and Joshua Ewing with the Colorado Hospital Association says things have changed.
Their organization lobbied to get doctors and nurses across Colorado included in an Anti-Doxing Bill. “This process that we have put in is really specific. It has to be someone who has received a threat,” he said. “Though I didn’t adopt the policy, my letter resulted in inciting a cyber mob directed at me personally. I was subject to hundreds of phone calls, emails and social media posts that range from support to detailed and graphic death threats against me and my family,” she said.
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