It would appear that Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer’s Wikipedia page has been edited by people unhappy with her edicts, because as of 10:30 pm EST, the entry certainly doesn’t read as if it were approved by the not-medically trained doctor:
It reads, “the far-left public health official and social justice warrior (not a Medical Doctor)…” Ouch! Somebody’s having some fun with the Mask Queen. According to archive.todayIn June, however, it read very differently.
Barbara Ferrer(born September 30, 1965) is an American health executive, serving as the director of Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.[1][2]
It’s unclear why the birthdays in the two listings are 9 years apart. Internet searches revealed that both birthdays had been listed on several websites. Not to be mean, but I’m guessing 1956 is the correct year of birth.
Is Ferrer the editor of Ferrer’s Wikipedia page? You, @Morrow_Brett? What is the deal with Katilins’ online profile getting completely scrubbed?
— Julie Hamill (@hamill_law) July 24, 2022
Ferrer has been the talk of the town lately, as RedState’s Jennifer Van Laar last week exposed the fact that Ferrer’s daughter Kaitlin Barnes was a co-author of a study that both the CDC and the LA County Health Department used to justify mask mandates. Her desperate efforts to return mask mandates for Los Angeles to the scientific consensus despite this pandemic are also discussed. She proved it herself by not wearing a mask to the All-Star Game last week.
In a section titled “Scandal,” the Wikipedia entry tonight reads like a RedState article (but I swear it wasn’t us who edited it!):
Scandal
It was discovered that Ferrer had been manipulating Covid-19 hospitalizations numbers to try and bring back the mask mandate in Los Angeles County in July 2022. She was counting all hospitalizations where a patient tested positive as a “Covid Hospitalization” no matter the root cause of hospitalization. It also came to light that a research paper she based her Covid-19 policies on, regarding masking, school closures, lockdown’s [sic] etc. They were actually taken from a paper her daughter had written, and she is NOT a physician. Ferrer attended the 2022 MLB All Star Game in Dodger Stadium, where her face was captured not covering up. This occurred before 65,000 fans. Days later she said a mask mandate needed to be reinstated because people have been asked repeatedly to wear masks, but aren’t doing the right thing. Los Angeles has branded her a fraud, and they have lost their trust in her.. There is a current call to her resignation. Twitter has recently been trending #fireferrer. (Emphasis mine.)
Another curious thing about her page is the “awards” section. On June 6, that section didn’t appear; as of now, there is a lengthy list of some 44 awards. Many believe she added it or that a staff member did so to address her critics. A couple of them are hard to believe, like “The Phenomenal Woman” award she apparently received from the YWCA Greater Los Angeles. Does that even exist? She also allegedly won the “Lark Social Justice Achievement Award” in 2020, which I totally believe, the “Women of Color: Changing the World Award, 2013,” and the “Extra Large Health Department of the Year” in 2019. We hope that she will have a massive display cabinet.
This was on May 9th @LACountyBOSIs actually awarding @lapublichealth Director Barbara Ferrer, the non-doctor SJW who has closed schools/businesses & masked kids and muzzled society, w/ President’s Woman of the Year Award (not a joke)! WTF?! @UprisingLa #FireFerrer https://t.co/XJRZlS6MuY
— Houman David Hemmati, MD, PhD (@houmanhemmati) May 2, 2022
The Wikipedia page may be funny but Barbara Ferrer isn’t. Although she enforced strict lockdowns since the introduction of COVID in 2011, California was not able to perform at the same level as other states that were free. The Wikipedia page, whether it has been mischievously edited or not, is actually correct: Ferrer is a “far-left, public health official and social justice warrior (not a Medical Doctor),” and we certainly don’t need her bringing back masks to an already tired, weary city.
UPDATE: Wikipedia’s page is changing constantly. Since I began writing the story, “far-left” has been replaced by “liberal.” Expect the mischievousness to continue.
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