2 /5 Cathy Eide: I think the our Public Health Department has fallen very short of the standard needed in the current public emergency.
It maybe because of restrictions and restraints placed on them by other government agencies, but there is little transparency, which would help the public understand what is happening and why.
One example is the Covid count in the public schools.
It’s terribly confusing, and appears to maintain the confusion even though families cannot find out if their child has had contact with someone who has Covid.
The reason, the schools give a test to check for Covid that isn’t acceptable to the Health Department. So those children are never counted and children they have been in contact with aren’t notified.
Hard to figure out who came up with that plan?
Things, that appear to be a no- brainer for the Health Department’s involvement, are left out with no connection.
Like- the Covid testing home testing. Confusion has certainly run rampant, but for clarity and transparency wouldn’t it have been great if informational response was available on their answer line?
I know there are committed, talented people working there, but there has been a failure of communication, transparency, creativity throughout this whole process; this horrible, sad, deadly, community altering process.
