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Idaho state representative Heather Scott is drawing some criticism for her ill-advised comments about the coronavirus pandemic. While discussing lockdown measures that are in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19, Scott compared the current situation to Nazi Germany and concentration camps.
That’s a major yikes, folks.
“I mean that’s no different than the Nazi Germany, where you had government telling people, you are an essential worker or non-essential worker and the non-essential workers got put on a train,” she said a recent podcast interview.
She also referred to Gov. Brad Little as “Little Hitler”.
Brenda Hammond, president of the Bonner County Human Rights Task Force, condemned the comments.
“Her words will be especially hard for members of our community whose own relatives were put on those trains. Not to mention the few Holocaust survivors we are still privileged to have living among us,” she told the Spokesman-Review.
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The coronavirus mainly comes from animals and a majority of those who were infected early either worked at or frequently visited the Huanan seafood wholesale market in Wuhan, according to The Guardian. The virus is similar to Severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) and Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome (Mers).
The Wuhan coronavirus is transmitted from person to person through “droplet transmission.” That means an infected person can pass the virus by sneezing or coughing on another person as well as by direct contact.
While a majority of the cases have been detected in the United States and China — with more than 41,000 deaths in the United States — it has now reached many countries around the world. It has also been confirmed in Italy, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, and many other eastern countries.
