Why an Arizona County Turned Down $1.9 Million in Covid Relief

[Kali]

Two Republican supervisors voted to reject the federal money, frustrating health care workers in rural Cochise County.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/11/us/covid-relief-funds.html?searchResultPosition=1

The $1.9 million in pandemic aid would have gone a long way in Cochise County, a rural borderland where a winter of infections swamped hospitals. There was money for tracking cases. Testing in remote ranching towns. Funds fortifying the Arizona county’s strained health department.

But the county’s Republican-controlled board of supervisors stunned many residents and health care workers by voting last month to reject the federal money, becoming one of the rare places in America to turn down Covid-19 assistance from Washington.

“We’re done,” said Peggy Judd, one of two Republican supervisors who voted against accepting the money. “We’re treating it like the common cold.”

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she is a fucking idiot, was at dump's Jan 6 rally.

[TheBlackAdder]

1. Cool, more money to other counties.

[lapfog_1]

2. she should be made to work 1 week at an ER

and then come back and tell us how like a "common cold" it is.

[Darwins_Retriever]

3. Cochise County primary population is military and retired military

Fort Huachuca is in the county, so I am sure they already get millions from the federal government. Huachuca City and Sierra Vista are primarily military retirees, so the VA comes into play with COVID. Add to this, all of the border related federal employees. It is a VERY Republican area, that hate federal government money while they get their military retirement checks, go to the VA, and go to work at the post or border.

[Ptah]

4. Protests held in Cochise County after board rejects state's COVID-19 assistance grant

BISBEE, Ariz. (KVOA) - Two large counter protests occurred at Tuesday's Cochise County Board of Supervisor's meeting.

This comes after the board's recent rejection of a state grant for pandemic assistance. Now there is a new push being made by a Cochise County supervisor.

While things got heated at times, the scene outside the meeting remained peaceful as two large groups with very different opinions rallied.

So far, the pandemic has left Cochise County divided with dozens of people with very different viewpoints letting their positions be known outside Tuesday's meeting.

https://www.kvoa.com/news/n4t-investigators-protests-held-in-cochise-county-after-board-rejects-states-covid-19-assistance-grant/article_f93ec1be-9447-11ec-87f1-df97fa864b58.html

[Kali]

5. Chorus Nylander?

that is a more unusual name than mine