Colorado Finally Shuts Down the Convention Center Boondoggle

We told you so.

After ten months and a price tag of around $100 million dollars, the Colorado state government is closing down the makeshift hospital set up in the Colorado Convention Center after admitting exactly zero patients.

The certainty for the need of overflow capacity (now referred to by clever Colorado politicians as an “insurance policy”) was based on Jared Polis’ slavish allegiance to long-ago-discredited mathematical models and his ability to use never-ending emergency declarations to sponge money from the federal government (non-Coloradoan taxpayers).

Colorado was paying $60,000 a day to lease the facility from the City and County of Denver on top of install, construction, and staffing expenses, and had activated the National Guard to set up the facility.

At Mile High Evening News, we have consistently exposed the funny math being used to justify the government’s continued intrusion into our lives, and no better example exists to this point of Jared Polis’ hubris and unwillingness to reexamine the real nature of the pandemic in the face of overwhelming evidence disproving the justification for his original dictatorial trajectory.