Last week, Idaho’s Ada County Commissioner Diana Lachiondo interrupted a district health board meeting tearfully.
“My 12-year-old son is home by himself right now, and there are protesters banging outside the door. I’m going to go home and make sure he’s okay,” she said, before disappearing from the Zoom meeting.
The board had planned to vote on an order that would have required indoor mask usage and would have limited the size of indoor gatherings. Lachiondo’s fellow board members ended up ending the meeting early, and another member said he had protesters outside his home as well.
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