Colorado COVID Income Redistribution Begins

Much like the federal redistribution that took place earlier this year, the Colorado Department of Labor is returning taxpayer money to select Coloradoans to try to compensate for the damage they have caused in the form of one-time $375 payments to roughly 8% of the population. Yawn.

Rather than real relief in the form of lifting the economic sanctions being enforced through the crazy COVID dial, the state government is issuing cash payments in a pay-for-political-loyalty scheme that further divides Colorado citizens against each other and accomplishes nothing.

More Colorado small businesses close permanently every single day.

In true Stockholm syndrome fashion, those who are responsible for the damage to the economy are giving their hostages welfare scraps with the hope they will be given credit for doing something instead of given the blame they rightfully deserve.

It is well-established that the spike in coronavirus “cases” and “hospitalizations” is directly tied to a spike in testing. Polis admitted that Colorado is testing 30,000-50,000 people every single day – a rate at which the entire state will have been tested within 4 months. We know that the PCR test has no ability to determine whether a person has an active, contagious infection. The best it can do is tell us that the patient came into contact with the virus at some point.

Since a “hospitalization” is simply a person admitted to the hospital who also has a positive test or is presumed to be positive, the spread of the virus we are discovering with the crazy increase in testing (and the fact that hospitals often require testing for admittance) means we must see a commensurate spike in testing.

Either the Colorado government is entirely ignorant about 7th-grade level math, or they have another purpose in what they are doing. Two that come to mind are their need for us to blame the virus instead of them for the economic calamity and their insatiable desire for authoritarian power over dependent subjects instead of simple governance of a society of free citizens.