Delaware County, where I used to live, has 560,000 people and NO public health department of any kind because Republicans didn’t want one and didn’t think it was important. inquirer.com/health/coronav…
How can a county of half million people have no health department? That style of GOP government is very simply going to kill people. We have friends there. inquirer.com/health/coronav…
Republicans ruled the county for decades, basically forever. Democrats campaigned to form a health department and won a council majority in November, but you can’t create a department from scratch in a few months. inquirer.com/health/coronav…
If any national reporters want to write in depth about why a politically important, 560,000-person suburban county next to Philadelphia has no health department — it would be a good longer story — please reach out & I’ll point you to sources who can get you off and running.
Trust me, this is an important story, politically relevant to the November election in a key swing state and a microcosm of broader GOP mismanagement of public health. I would write it myself but I live in California now and can’t freelance.
