Jared Polis Thinks You Live in a Nursing Home

Last Tuesday, Colorado governor Jared Polis told Coloradoans that gathering for Thanksgiving dinner in non-government approved numbers was tantamount to “bringing a loaded pistol for grandma’s head.”

Westword’s account of the press conference revealed Polis hinting that families with (gasp!) anti-maskers should be shunned from joining their families for Thanksgiving. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE), in a case of literally moving the goalposts, added another arbitrary level to their Goebbels-inspired COVID fear meter (super duper purple!) to threaten Coloradoans with even more heavy-handed, patronizing government control if they weren’t able to slow down the spread of a virus that has thus far not been stopped by any of our vain interventions.

Far from the mind of King Polis, apparently, is the fact that (as calculated by Chuck Wibby for the Boulder Daily Camera), “of the 203 deaths linked to active outbreaks in Colorado right now, 189 of them, 93.1%, have occurred in skilled nursing or assisted-living facilities.”

That’s right, virtually no one is dying outside of folks who are in the twilight of life already. We won’t even bother with the “every death is a tragedy” platitude anymore – if we can’t figure out that everyone dies eventually and every mitigation is a trade-off, we are beyond reason and deserve to live the rest of our lives masking up in fear.

Yes, people get sick. This is not new, nor will it ever go away. But coronavirus is now clearly a pandemic of discovery, not spread or risk. Case and hospitalization rise is entirely corollary with testing. If we tested 15,000-20,000 people a day for any pathogen, we would never not be locked down in fear.

Coloradoans must not forget when the next election comes around (assuming we can trust the voting process) who it was who decided to initiate yet another round of ignorance-based economic destruction. These so-called experts aren’t qualified to run a doggie day care, much less make sweeping economic policy for six million Coloradoans.