AIHA Issues Guidance to Protect Volunteers from COVID-19 During Natural Disaster Response and Recovery
The guidelines provide volunteers with information about how volunteer organizations operate during a response to severe natural disasters
May 25, 2021 09:20 ET | Source: AIHA AIHA Falls Church, Virginia, UNITED STATES
Falls Church, Virginia, May 25, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) AIHA, the association for scientists and professionals committed to preserving and ensuring OEHS in the workplace and community, announced recommendations designed to protect unpaid natural disaster response volunteers from COVID-19. The free guidelines also provide volunteers with information about how volunteer organizations operate during a response to severe natural disasters including hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, floods, wildfires, and more.
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Former President Trump obsessed with the Fulton County elections department, which covers Atlanta. His conspiracy theories and lies led to violent threats and intimidation of the department s workers.
‘You Better Run’: After Trump’s False Attacks, Election Workers Faced Threats
By Johnny Kauffman
February 5, 2021
As his time in the White House came to a close, former president Donald Trump became obsessed with one office in downtown Atlanta and the workers there, making the Fulton County elections department a target of conspiracy theories and lies, which led to violent threats and intimidation.
Online threats led to real world dangers. Law enforcement were posted outside the homes of some election officials. To feel safer, at least one official s family moved in with in-laws. In more disturbing cases, election workers heard strangers knocking at their front doors, and menacing voices on the other end of the phone who uttered racial slurs and promised hangings.
Before Trump s disinformation campaign began in earnest, election departments around the country were already battered as they struggled to handle the myriad repercussions of the pandemic.
In the Fulton County office, 62-year-old Beverly Walker died from the virus. Walker had worked at the county for two decades, where she had a reputation as a maternal figure, thanks in part to her goodie drawer filled with tea, coffee, and snacks.
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As his time in the White House came to a close, former president Donald Trump became obsessed with one office in downtown Atlanta and the workers there, making the Fulton County elections department a target of conspiracy theories and lies, which led to violent threats and intimidation.
Fulton County employees, as well as election workers around the country, are still grappling with the emotional and psychological trauma they suffered as a result of Trump s disinformation campaign about the 2020 election, and it may have lasting consequences for recruiting and retention in the vital, but often under-appreciated field.