A Tennessee doctor who was called a “traitor” on Tuesday simply for supporting mask wearing in elementary schools, where students are too young to be vaccinated, said the criticisms against him from the crowd of anti-mask parents was “mind blowing”
“I was approached and someone put their hand in my face and called me a traitor,” Dr. Britt Maxwell told CNN.
“I don’t see how anyone can say that when I’ve been on the frontlines of this pandemic since the beginning, treating patients in rooms, unvaccinated for the vast majority of it, hoping I wouldn’t take it home to my family,” Maxwell said. “For someone to say that is mind blowing,” he added.
The incident took place Tuesday evening after a tense four-hour long meeting that ended with the Williamson County Schools (WCS) Board of Education voting to institute a mask mandate for elementary school students and faculty members in their district.
As the health care workers left the meeting parents surrounded them chanting “we will not comply.”
Later in the video a man confronted the driver of the car, pointed his finger in the driver’s face saying: “We know who you are. You can leave freely, but we will find you,” Another man tells the driver “you will never be allowed in public again.”
The mask policy only applies to elementary age students since they are not eligible to receive any of the three vaccines against COVID. Masks will remain optional at middle and high schools, where most students are age 12 or above.
“The safest way to have school and to keep school in session is for people to mask up, and that’s why I went to that meeting,” Maxwell said.
