Colorado Mayors Bow Before King Polis

Colorado mayors are by and large bootlickers for the state government. Last week, the mayors of front range Colorado cities wrote a letter to Jared Polis expressing their displeasure at so-called non-compliant areas of the state.

The letter exposed the rank ignorance our cities are operating under – first with the acceptance of the crazy COVID dial as a scientific and legal device, instead of the patently unscientific, invented-out-of-whole-cloth compliance device that it actually is. Colorado residents saw this fraud exposed when super-scary purple was simply added to the dial because the state government knew people would rebel if told they had to stay at home again, but they still needed everyone to stay scared. The dial is a behavior control device – nothing more.

The mayors claim they need “a clearer understanding of the data that is driving decision making to ensure effective messaging.” Their lack of understanding is apparent, as they reveal that they still think we need to flatten the curve. They then proceed to throw fellow Colorado local governments under the bus by demanding that localities that fail to abide by the dial be refused state funds and restaurants that refuse to close as ordered have their business licenses suspended or revoked.

Citizens of Arvada should be particularly offended, as the chair of the Metro Mayors Caucus is their very own (supposedly Republican) Marc Williams. He apparently buys into the continued usage of the Colorado coronavirus modeling that predicted up to 80,000 deaths by the end of 2020 – an overprediction of about 3000%. Let us repeat: The state of Colorado used this comically ridiculous model to develop the crazy COVID dial, and the state government has not adjusted anything in response to the fact that the data shows an entirely different story. In fact, the Case Fatality Rate (CFR) in Colorado has bottomed out at 1.38% – this does not include Coloradoans who have no doubt been infected but not tested (The infection fatality rate, or IFR). This is entirely in line with the seasonal flu. Here are some important correlations:

This graph, generated from CDPHE’s own data, shows that hospitalizations as a factor of tests are the lowest they have ever been (orange line). Notice also that the percentage of cases that are hospitalizations is also at an all-time low. Taken in light of the relatively stable coronavirus-attributed new deaths (especially considering deaths from all causes rise during the flu season), and what we have is a test-driven crisis. The seven-day moving average of hospitalizations versus tests and deaths versus cases shows a similar story – both stabilizing around one percent:

Lastly, notice the correlation between testing, cases, and hospitalizations:

It is hard to see hospitalizations at this scale because testing is so high, but we see cases following almost exactly with testing. Here, we place a 100X taller graph of hospitalizations on top:

While the hospitalizations are less than one percent of tests, notice the almost perfect correlation. The severity is not increasing – the raw numbers are increasing because testing is increasing – if we stop testing asymptomatic aka healthy people, the “pandemic” disappears.

Let us be clear: Your mayors are siding with Jared Polis and Michael Hancock. Instead of fighting the premise of the crazy COVID dial, they are busy begging for scraps of taxpayer assistance while being perfectly happy throwing businesses under the bus.

Read their letter here.