Sanity: Douglas County Opts Out of Further Tri-County COVID Orders

The Douglas County Board of County Commissioners voted unanimously to opt out of further health orders issued by the Tri-County Health Department, which covers Douglas, Adams, and Arapahoe counties.

Citing Douglas County’s almost non-existent COVID numbers, the commissioners noted that COVID has a 98% survival rate, severe cases are seen mostly in people aged 70 and older and those with underlying health conditions, and that more than 80% people in that “vulnerable group” have now been vaccinated. Douglas County is at a 26% ICU capacity rate as of April 7 and the 14-day rolling average of county citizen hospitalizations per 100,000 population due to COVID has been less than two per day since early December, according to the resolution.

As expected, Governor Dear Leader Jared Polis said last week that Colorado was in “a time of great concern,” yet official Colorado data shows the same predictable pattern we have chronicled here for months, culminating with the bottoming out of the case fatality rate at 1.3%, hospitalization rate finalizing at 5.5% of cases, and roughly 17% of those tested testing positive (whatever that means).

State officials are claiming Colorado is in a “fourth wave” of the pandemic, but the 7-day average of new deaths versus new cases paints a very different picture:

COVID-19 is the least deadly it has ever been in Colorado assuming we accept the epidemiological data at face value (we shouldn’t). Let’s hope other counties follow Douglas County’s lead in returning God-given freedoms to the citizens it was stolen from.