Lee County Board of Education Member Sherry Womack attended Tuesday’s ReOpenNC protest and told WRAL TV that COVID-19 cases will rise when Governor Roy Cooper’s stay-at-home order is lifted, but added that “you can’t stay in your house forever:”
“The very moment we open up, it will increase our numbers because we’ve all been in the house,” protester Sherry Womack said. “You can’t stay in your house forever.”
Womack, a Republican elected in 2016 who is seeking re-election this year, was not identified in the story as an elected school board member, but her voice is recognizable in an audio recording of the television broadcast.
Womack did not respond Thursday to a request to clarify whether her apparent position in support of “reopening” North Carolina includes public schools in Lee County.
Since Tuesday’s protest, there have been 35 new COVID-19 cases confirmed in Lee County, nearly doubling the local total from 45 to 80. That includes the 16 announced on both Wednesday and Thursday, the two biggest single day jumps since case tracking began.
This idiotic woman should go ahead and commingle with other like-minded idiots who endanger us all in addition to themselves, and if she manages to survive, PLEASE don’t vote for such a person to another term as a school board member! UNFIT!
Yes, to be sure & (bless her heart).
Very much agree with her. Every new report that comes out shows a lower and lower death rate and most deaths per the report out of New York shows that a very large majority are tied to pre-existing conditions. High Blood pressure, obesity and type two diabetes. Let the rest of us need to get back to work.
Sorry, I have two thought that ran together on my last sentence. Lets the rest of us get back to work for the sake of those with issues.
Death due to car crash in your lifetime 1 in 77 ~1.3%
Chance of death from Covid-19 in the US is 5.7%
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The odds of dying from Corona is the same as if you were to drive 9 miles to work and were to die in a car wreck in so doing. Destroy the economy for those odds……. You might as well as park your car and never drive again and most certainly don’t endanger your child in the event they wished to ride along.
Sadly this woman would willingly put our children and their families at risk, I’m not certain a school board member that puts her personal political beliefs above future generations is the best representation all citizens deserve. My sincere hope is someone will point out her reckless disregard for our children and their safety every day until the next election.
I believe she is a doctor…. maybe she could join Trumps team to shove flashlights up their ass and inject themselves with disinfectant? At least that is some sort of plan.
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As the poet and philosopher Friedrich Schiller observed: Against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain
It’s amazing how many people at the protest are not business owners or are directly affected. Someone ask the Womacks have their government check has been cut off. This is a situation that most people have never had to deal with and the only thing they can do is take the best weighed advise from the medical community and make decisions. The arguments like car deaths, flu, etc are so short minded. I totally agree that the economy needs to open back up as soon as it is safely possible but why take the chance of destroying the work and sacrifice that the economy has already endured.
REply to David Nestor:
Your car crash and Chances of cornona virus death comparison represents a false equivalence.
And as for the economy being ruined, it already is thanks to Trump’s delay in grappling with this pandemic starting in February when he should have. Too busy golfing and with his political rallies. Too stupid to take advice from the experts.
Greetings Karen, we are clearly on opposite sides but with that said I do respect your comments and very much appreciate the fact that you do not hide behind an alias like so many on the Rant.
David – Likewise, I appreciated your tone if not the sentiments behind them, as well as including your real name as well.
So Trump runs China and WHO! Trump is a businessman and that’s why we voted him in. Sleepy Joe called Trump Xenophobic when banned flights from China. The Democrats wanted illegals to get stimulus before legal citizens. Which I haven’t seen yet. Please stop watching CNN and other MSM outlets.
Mrs. Womack is a NARCISSISTIC RELIGIOUS
HYPOCRITE WHO IS A TOTAL DISGRACE TO BOTH THE ARMY AND MEDICAL PROFESSION!!! (To all of you keep in mind, LEE COUNTY has gone from like 5 cases to 80+ in 10 days per The Rant with outbreaks at 5 plants.) Look at her webpage and you can see in black and white how much MRS. WOMACK LOVES HERSELF(NARCISSISTIC ANYONE???)—CHRISTIAN, wife, mother, SOLDIER, PATRIOT, PUBLIC SERVANT—HER words DEFINITELY NOT MINE. Let’s dissect and address her narcissistic website headline. SOLDIER?: She does not have HONOR AND VALOR of a TRUE soldier who sacrifices their life for another. Well, even the Navy learned their lesson albeit much too late in a public relations disaster by negating the seriousness of COVID 19 and dishonoring our TRUE soldiers. PATRIOT/CHRISTIAN/PUBLIC SERVANT? :She had more compassion for the TALIBAN soldiers for whom she served as a medic and physician assistant than those of her own country and religion. PUBLIC SERVANT?: She is a former Army medic and physician assistant. She FLAGRANTLY ignores and/or does not comprehend the HYPOCRATIC OATH. Last time I checked the hypocratic oath did NOT state unless you are over 60 and/or have underlying health conditions and/or or are the sacrificial lamb unless with her UTTER narcissism MRS. WOMACK THE WIFE decided she had the authority to change it? She OBVIOUSLY has her words reversed as she thinks the public is TO SERVE HER—why doesn’t she just add HER HEINESS to her website title too? She is in the minority of polls wanting to reopen but yet she thinks she is right and the vast majority of the public and her own constituents are clueless. She forgot to add POLITICIAN to her narcissistic slew of titles as they don’t serve their constituents—they do as they please. They make promises and don’t honor them—lying in my book but yet she is a CHRISTIAN? She is a hypocrite not a TRUE CHRISTIAN. MOTHER? How about wicked step mother? She cares about HER BLOOD children but kids of Lee County Schools she does not care about in any way, shape, or form. She doesn’t know her demographics concerning Covid 19 let alone school demographics for a school board member. How many kids in Lee county are raised by their grandparents? Kids going to school are germ centers as ANY MOTHER should know. So who will raise kids when their grandparents die? Will she as a CHRISTIAN be a Foster parent to these children? Well let’s just say the mother of all is MOTHER NATURE: Mother Nature created this virus and only an understanding of this virus—God willing— will end it. MRS WOMACK GROW A CONSCIENCE PLEASE and COMPREHEND NOT JUST READ the teachings of THE BIBLE and be an EXAMPLE NOT A RELIGIOUS HYPOCRITE. Serve YOUR CONSTITUENTS NEEDS instead of clearly your own. DON’T use titles without understanding their TRUE MEANING AND focus on the MEANING NOT THE TITLES ESPOUSED so blatantly and with such disregard that they SCREAM narcissism on YOUR PART. I know this response is long but I feel our society has lost such a crucial part of justice and human civility. The wisest human being besides God in my opinion said “TELL THE TRUTH, THE “WHOLE” TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH!” One last note for which I do ask God’s forgiveness in saying as it is quite petty but just fits. Jim Baker was shut down for touting some false cure for COVID 19. Well, in seeing your hair and makeup and your demeanor and opinions TAMMY FAYE BAKER LIVES ON IN YOUR PHOTOS AND SPIRIT—GOD HAS A SENSE OF HUMOR AND YOU ARE THE BUTT OF THE JOKE! (Who can look at your picture with your sign on The Rant and take anything you say seriously? (My apologies to The Rant and you may delete the Tammy Faye Baker portion—I understand you wanting responses to be civil.)It felt soooo good to vent my frustrations with a narcissist!!! God again forgive me but I am tired of a select few with no conscience taking advantage and prospering from the masses! Had MRS. WOMACK stated her reservations about keeping the lockdowns from a logical, sympathetic human work together note encompassing safety concerns I would have heard her concerns but she did not state anything of the sort. Had she stated some safety precautions such as certain last names each day to go to stores to enforce social distancing while resuming work or stated no kids in stores as less people in a store with no NEED to be there, the better. Or open the economy with safety of workers with necessary protections such as face masks, 6 ft apart, etc…Or stating anyone with underlying conditions must stay at home and be paid during outbreaks. But MRS. Womack stated BASICALLY SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST is the name of the game! I don’t recall survival of the fittest being a CHRISTIAN value!
-nar·cis·sist, /ˈnärsəsəst/, noun,
a person who has an excessive interest in or admiration of themselves.
“narcissists who think the world revolves around them”
To call Mrs. Womack a disgrace to both the US Army and the medical profession shows your bais. I have personally seen this woman do more good for the people of Lee county than most do in a lifetime. As far a the medical profession you have no clue.
Army core values: Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selfless Service, Honor, Integrity, and Personal Courage. I have seen it in spades, in all respects.
Christian wife/mother, again, you would be hard-pressed to find any finer.
Her compassion for ANYONE in need, in itself, proves you wrong, and again just shows your angst.
So in summary, you have a choice, continue your current course of hatred, albeit misguided. And look silly.
OR
Understand that not everyone that disagrees with you or your way of thinking is wrong.
This world is full of hatred, why add to it for political reasons?
I would present this, are you not yourself the Narcissist?
Why don’t you ask her about her daughter
Bob, I don’t know what good you think Sherry Womack has done for this county. If she’d had it her way, the Wicker School plans would have been ground to nothing, on the argument that a black neighborhood was full of “thugs.” Would that have been good?
I actually agree with you, that calling her a disgrace to the military is a bridge too far. I just wonder where your sense of this was when her allies were calling me a traitor to my country, for being a veteran who doesn’t support Trump.
She doesn’t have that compassion for anyone in need. Do you know who needs her to display care for others right now? All those grandparents and other family members of students who will get sick and perhaps die if the schools reopen. Womack doesn’t care about that; she just cares about the party line. She and her party also couldn’t care less about the uninsured in Lee County and beyond who would be covered under Medicaid expansion.
If you really believe what you’ve written, then it seems you’ve been duped.
Bob DID YOU SEE 128 PEOPLE HAVE COVID 19 UP BY 21 today alone. Double digit increases DAILY AND YOU AND MRS WOMACK WANT TO OPEN THE ECONOMY AND TRLL ME I HAVE NO MEDICAL CLUE??? Lee county has one of the highest infection rates per population in the state. you cite the meaning of narcissist and OBVIOUSLY can’t comprehend the meaning!!! Maybe a narcissist can’t recognize a narcissist??? First of all, ANY ADULT knows just because somebody is nice to YOU doesn’t mean they are a nice person.
Secondly, people do good all the time for SELFISH reasons BOB!!! It is called hubris and pride—I would never have the nerve to put her descriptions of herself on a website to announce to the world that I DEMAND EVERYONE to think I am a good person REGARDLESS OF WHETHER OR NOT I DID GOOD ACTS.
I do the right ethical thing to serve God and to sleep at night as my father said all the time!!! My mother and my father told people to not buy them awards when they put in selfless hours of volunteer work because they would rather the money be used for something of value not a plague that collected dust. My uncle a decorated veteran gave up his job so a younger employee with a young family wasn’t laid off—a selfless act. He said he was busier in retirement than when he worked—all volunteer work—but he NEVER SAID I am busier in retirement WITH MY VOLUNTEER WORK. They are my heroes!!! They are a few examples in my family of people who were SELFLESS and didn’t do good things to BRAG like Mrs. WOMACK.
Do you DENY what she has written on her website IN BLACK AND WHITE about how GREAT—WIFE, MOTHER, SOLDIER, PATRIOT, PUBLIC SERVANT-she is? THOSE WORDS CLEARLY show EXCESSIVE interest/admiration by THE DEFINITION YOU CITED BOB! How can you say otherwise???? How is her remark not HATRED? I want to save people instead of economy and you tell me that constitutes hatred??? May I suggest you look up the definition of LOGIC AND READ A BOOK ON IT SINCE YOU OBVIOUSLY ARE THE ONE WITHOUT A CLUE!
Does God not say good acts alone do not get you to Heaven? I truly believe God said that to make people think about REASON NOT THE ACT ITSELF of doing good. HUBRIS AND PRIDE are not good reasons.
You state as to the medical profession, I have no clue? What is YOUR medical background, Bob? How medically speaking, Bob, is what MRS. WOMACK stated about restarting the economy and to basically deal with the deaths IN ANY WAY, SHAPE OR FORM in compliance with the hypocratic oath considered a cornerstone of medical ethics??? I know doctors, EMTs, nurses and caregivers who ALL vehemently oppose by MRS. . WOMACK’s stance. SO BOB WHAT MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS AGREE WITH YOU AND MRS WOMACK? PLEASE put your money where your mouth is Bob and provide evidence and facts. So do the MANY medical professionals I know, know nothing AND MRS. WOMACK(ONE person) know so much more than all of them?
I am not disagreeing with her on my opinion-I am disagreeing with her on MEDICAL FACTS by those medically trained professionals with years and years of service as a doctor, Doctors Without Borders and Army doctors, nurses who have travelled the world, Air Force nurse etc….
Although I as a non medical professional probably know more about medicine than you Bob as I have been a an extended family caregiver more times than I wish. I have also worked as a caregiver in a group home. Have you, Bob? I could go on about experience in medicine and Armed Forces but if you haven’t conceded that I have through my own experience and from that of LISTENING TO OTHERS by now then you just clearly wish to deal in ILLOGICAL OPINIONS instead of logical facts.
I don’t sacrifice the elderly and sick for a paycheck. Yes, I do PRACTICE WHAT I PREACH! I respect the elderly as my parents instilled that value in me from day one. People told me as a child that I have an old soul—their words not mine. Do you respect and take care of your grandparents and/or parents, BOB? How about taking care of the sick Bob?
I do have asthma and I have the right to be upset that If I caught COVID 19 and died that Mrs. Womack considers me a mere insignificant and necessary casualty of the economy. Yet as my father would say you have the AUDACITY to say in your words Bob that MRS WOMACK has COMPASSION FOR ANYONE in need PROVES ME WRONG AS YOU STATED IN YOUR RESPONSE BOB???
She is sacrificing people for the economy so can you PLEASE EXPLAIN LOGICALLY how that statement shows compassion??? HOW IS THE SACRIFICE STATEMENT NOT FULL Of HATRED? it doesn’t disprove but rather proves my point that MRS WOMACKS STATEMENT statement IS full of hatred and LACKS ANY compassion NOT VICE VERSA as you claim Bob.
You BOB and Mrs. Womack are adding to the hatred for as you stated in your response FOR POLITICAL REASONS! MRS WOMACK NOT I IS SEEKING POLITICAL ELECTION, WENT TO A TELEVISED PUBLIC RALLY AND EXPRESSED HER POLITICAL VIEWS TO A NEWS STATION. AND IS CURRENTLY A POLITICAL OFFICIAL. So how do you come to the conclusion that I am logically the politician in this???
I have NEVER EVER EVEN BY THOSE WHO DISAGREE WITH ME been called a narcissist in my long life. My father read THREE NEWSPAPERS EVERYDAY so he could get as close as possible to the whole truth in a variety of issues.
I have never said to anyone I won’t listen to your opinion since it is different. So why did YOU RESPOND that I think that EVERYONE who disagrees with me is wrong? I DISAGREED WITH MRS. WOMACK SO how on God’s green Earth do you come to the conclusion that A PERSON constitutes everyone? What do you not comprehend -the definition of A? Everyone? Or logical conclusion?
I welcome your opinion and heard/read your opinion but CHOSE to rely on FACTS, EXPERIENCE AND LOGIC to once again disagree with YOU and MRS. WOMACK. Again, that does not mean everyone. In polls about reopening the economy, I am in the majority Bob. You and Mrs. WOMACK are in the minority so logically you have the PROBLEM with those who disagree with you. You have taken statistics, haven’t you Bob? I never rely on me source ever because of my father. So again my disagreement with MRS WOMACK(ONE person) IS NOT JUST MINE.
I have SEVERAL family members who served SELFLESSLY WITHOUT ANNOUNCING TO EVERYONE LET ALONE ONE PERSON THEY MET in the armed services who fought with honor. One uncle who saw his best friend blown to pieces never talked about the war or watched any movies/shows about the war and never displayed any medals from the war. Few people knew he served in the war. They would agree Mrs. Womack’s statements are self centered. I state my basis for disagreement about MRS WOMACK’s HUBRIS based on THEIR actions not mine, BOB. It is called leading by EXAMPLE.
So where are all the masks MRS WIMACK sewed Bob??? She BRAGS about being an excellent sewer who teaches sewing on her missions so if she is kind of person you stated let me see the face masks she should have been the first one to sew!!!
YOUR WORDS her compassion for ANYONE??? Where is her compassion for ANY OF THOSE whose lives have changed forever by Covid 19 and her desire to stop it not add fuel to the fire by just opening the economy?
AGAIN SHE MADE NO REFERENCES TO HOW TO OPEN THE ECONOMY SAFELY!!!
If it acts like a duck and walks like a duck FACTS suggest it is a duck. Mrs. Womack IS A NARCISSIST AND MY APOLOGIES TO THE DUCK!!!
As to you Bob, consider being a magician because if you think you are not yourself full of hatred, hubris, political undertones and consider yourself logical, and expect me to ASSUME you have knowledge of medicine then you truly have magical hypnotic powers because you must be in a trance! Or maybe you should be a science fiction writer?
I am responding to the person who stated my attack of she is a disgrace to military to Mrs. Womack went too far.I attacked her because of her HUBRIS concerning being a soldier who helps and sacrifices their life for everyone to include the Taliban IN HER WORDS in addition to touting her MEDICAL TRAINING from the ARMY. I do not think the ARMY DOCTORS/MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS concur with her opinions to reopen the Economy when rates are spiking and we in Lee county are a hotspot. So I thought I needed to clarify my reasoning.
As to woman who responded to ask her about about her daughter, I was not sure of what she meant. However if there is something the daughter did that is questionable, I think that is crossing the line as I SURMISE FROM PICTURES that MRS. WOMACK’s daughter is under 25 and to me a child. Children are off limits as they do not need to be nor did they ask to be thrown into a public spotlight.
As to concern about names, did not identify myself not to hide but to try and FOCUS on issues and facts. I am so tired of Republican versus Democrat and Liberal versus conservative labels. It seems that the minute somebody identifies you as one or the other, they go to extremes and STOP LISTENING WITH LOGIC OR AN OPEN MIND on BOTH ends. The UNITED States of America is sadly glossed over nowadays. We say AMERICA so often and/or use abbreviation of US or USA. On September 11th and for a long time afterwards we TRULY were the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. I just don’t see the United with the coronavirus regardless of it being a global virus. We should still be united within our country.
Let’s get back to work before we lose everything. My wife had to shut down her independent salon suite. She has t received any unemployment or stimulus. More people have the virus or have had it. The death rate is around .5 %. Who knows if social distancing worked or was it too late. Not all claimed covid19 deaths are accurate and some are pre existing conditions. So maybe the vulnerable and weak should stay out and let they healthy get things going again. So Don’t get all your info from MSM. Go to alternative news sources. Don’t let fear control you
“Let’s get back to work before we lose everything.”
Good grief, let’s stay at home until EPIDEMIOLOGISTS tell us it’s safe to venture out into the public, never mind bogus “alternative news sources.”
But go ahead and go for it, see if you are right!
Karen you need to calm down! Everything will be ok! Currently my mom is in the hospital, we can’t visit her and not upset. But if you choose to sit home that’s ok but I’m not.
I’m sure if Ms. Womack and her husband drink Lysol and shine a flashlight down their throats that they will be much better. Better to shine the flashlight down instead of through the ears and reveal nothing in between to block the light.
Womack is an embarrassment to the Lee County School Board. I anticipate huge backlash against her for antics of always wanting to be the center of attention
Let’s plan on voting her out of office
Mrs. Womack’s statement displays a complete disregard to the students of Lee County. As a student, I believe her efforts should be focused on ensuring the safety and health of the students she was elected to help. Covid-19 is a serious problem, and her statement proves that she is placing money above lives. I am not saying the economy isn’t important, as we learned of its impact in our Civics & Economics course, but her job is to protect the students of Lee County. While the deaths among teens and children is much lower, you must consider the impact of the virus on students’ caregivers, such as parents and grandparents. Over a hundred people are already infected during the quarantine. Those numbers would sky-rocket if students were permitted to go back to school. In addition, you must consider the impact on students’ mental health. Many students are stressed during this pandemic for a number of reasons including the safety of their parents who are essential workers, their grandparents’ health, online-schooling, etc. Is it really a good idea to add to our stress during such a difficult time? Should we have to worry about infecting our loved ones? How would we feel if someone died because we spread the disease? Mrs. Womack served as a medical professional, so shouldn’t she abide by her oath to do no harm? Shouldn’t the same rule apply to education? She is setting an extremely poor example to students, and I am appalled that she is partly in charge of my education. Upon further research, I discovered that she was arrested for breaking and entering (though, it was expunged), and she has consistently threatened the press for publishing articles she labeled “fake news”. This is atrocious, and hopefully, she is not re-elected. While I understand she is technically a politician, school is no place for politics. Her job is to protect students, and if she is so worried about the economy, she should let economists do their jobs. If she wants to open up the economy, she should listen to stay-at-home orders, so we can resume our normal lives. As a student, I do not support the statements of Mrs. Womack, and I doubt she will receive support from any of my classmates. She doesn’t really care about any of us.
Instead of opening schools and risking the health of Lee County residents, I believe that Mrs. Womack should make an effort to improve online-schooling for students and provide necessary resources such as counseling and tutoring. The education of over ten-thousand students is in her hands, and she’s placing her political party over her job. She is acting selfish in a job that requires selflessness. As said by another individual, she is a narcissist. I am ashamed she is part of the school-board.
Both my parents were military, and they both agree her actions poorly represent the US Armed Forces. While I wouldn’t say she was a disgrace, I will point out that a real soldier wouldn’t express such disregard to the preventable loss of life. It’s upsetting that we live in a world where money is placed above lives, and party is placed above people. A member of the school-board should be setting a good example for students, which Mrs. Womack is unable to do.
Also, lawmakers have taken measures to prevent deaths caused by car crashes, but that is something I can’t say about Trump and how he handled the coronavirus.
*I am not including my real name for my safety since I am a minor.