Healthy Coloradoans Wait for Hours to Pad Colorado COVID Case Numbers

Cars lined up for hours at Jefferson County Fairground’s popup coronavirus testing site on Sunday so people with no sign at all of being sick could play the coronavirus test lottery.

Denver’s Channel 4 (CBS) interviewed several test seekers who had absolutely no indication that they were infected with the novel coronavirus. Instead, they were trying to check the “negative” box so (according to one healthy testee) “I can spend Thanksgiving with my mom.”

Jeffco Public Health had to turn away people who had appointments. That’s right – the same government officials who (as Seinfeld said) know how to take the reservation, just not how to keep the reservation, want Coloradoans to continue to trust them with their freedom and their businesses. These same health officials are encouraging residents to make appointments for testing, but apparently even appointment holders must beat the crowd to the testing facility or be forced to come back tomorrow.

This push for healthy testing (for fear of forced quarantine during Thanksgiving) continues to drive up case numbers, and 14-day required quarantine continues to bench health care workers and cause challenges for cash-strapped hospitals as they struggle to recover from this year’s lockdowns.

Jeffco residents need to heed the expertise of Dr. Roger Hodkinson, who (despite being in the coronavirus testing business), says that mass testing of healthy people is an ignorant mistake.