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Health care workers discuss vitriol at Tennessee school meeting on masks: 'I am not the enemy'

Portrait of Brinley Hineman Brinley Hineman
Nashville Tennessean

Threats, shouts and cursing peppered Williamson County health care workers, who for the past 18 months have been on the front lines of the pandemic in Tennessee. The vitriol hurled against them came from a mob of hundreds of anti-mask parents who were enraged that doctors and nurses asked the school board to pass a mask requirement for students in the district just south of Nashville.