Travis McAdam scours local newspapers and extremist social media content, along with receiving personal reports from community members about the threats.
Some reports detail protests swarming outside of a public health officer's home. Others describe the hostile voicemail messages or emails sent to health officers.McAdam, an expert on extremism and white nationalism at the Montana Human Rights Network, has been monitoring threats of violence targeted toward public health officers in Montana, and sometimes northern Idaho.Throughout the pandemic, such threats have become a nationwide issue in the United States.'use strict';CNN.
LA County official details threats received amid Covid-19 01:41Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has spoken openly about receiving death threats. Barbara Ferrer, Los Angeles County's public health director, also has opened up about receiving hate mail and threats dating back to March last year.
Whitmer: Stay-at-home protests look like political rally 03:24"Remember the anti-lockdown rallies that were happening in state capitols or outside county courthouses or other public buildings? It wasn't necessarily that the anti-government crowds and the militia crowds were the ones organizing all of those -- but they were showing up in those spaces," McAdam said.
To combat the growing danger of extremist recruitment and threats to public health officers' safety, McAdam said that community members who support public health need to be more vocal in their backing of science and denounce the hate."What's happening in many of these public meeting spaces is you have these extremists and bullies who are dominating those spaces where these topics are being discussed and decisions are being made," McAdam said.
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