What happens when you take a school board, mix it with a healthy dose of COVID-19 skepticism, shake it about with some jaw-dropping conspiracy theories and what do you get?
Well, first off, you have a Kerrville Independent School District meeting, but secondly, you have a public meeting hijacked by a toxic blend of menace wrapped in public comments.
Circling back to the public comments, four speakers discussed COVID-19, including two who made outlandish suggestions that the use of district facilities violated the “Nuremberg Code.” Speaker Shari Snyder, who has made repeated accusations about COVID-19 vaccines and mask guidelines, said that the death penalty is punishment for violating the code.
The “Nuremberg Code” is a post-World War II artifact written to prevent human medical experimentation in the wake of Nazi atrocities enacted during the Holocaust. However, the code is an ethical guideline and not an adopted law, and certainly not one codified in the U.S.
Snyder protested the use of Tivy High School as a vaccination center. She was a one-woman demonstrator during a recent vaccination effort, drawing the attention of the Kerrville Police Department after she was asked to leave.