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Brittany Choate Xiu director of community engagement at COVIDCheck Colorado, goes door to door in Aurora on Thursday, April 1, 2021, helping residents find locations to get vaccinated.
Mandi Corbari was at home in Aurora with her husband in late March when they heard a knock on the door. Corbari was uneasy when the person ignored the doorbell and opened the storm door on their single-family home. Her anxiety also came from some posts she had seen on the social media app Nextdoor.
“The only information I had heard before that was that there were scammers coming door-to-door,” Corbari said.
Has anyone else had a covid check? You cant [sic] trust nobody these days.
Within just a few days, about 100 people had commented on the post. He was probably a scammer, one wrote. Sounds shady, said another. Somebody else described being upset by a person opening their screen door to knock, rather than using the bell. All these posts are sketch from same area.
Multiple neighbors suggested contacting authorities: Bet they re casing your house notify the police.
CPR removed the names and specific neighborhoods of the people who commented since they didn’t provide consent to be identified, and Nextdoor is visible only to people in a particular neighborhood.