Three Years Later: Reflections on Colorado’s Covid Response

Three years after the March 2020 shutdowns, the legacy of Covid-era policies are still haunting Colorado...

Sadly, after three years, politicians and state health officials have not been held accountable for their malfeasance...

It was March 2020 and the State forced society to shutdown.... Your family wasn’t allowed to visit someone on their deathbed.... Business were threatened with revocation of their license...

5280 Magazine had a running list of restaurants and bars that shutdown permanently since 2020. They stopped updating the list in December of 2022....

The overbearing restrictions of Governor Jared Polis and his cohorts led to Colorado workers losing their jobs, and many people were pushed over the edge... In February, 2021, the Denver Pest reported that “Colorado paid a heavier price economically in its fight against COVID-19 than other states in 2020... Denver’s policies were so insane that in October 2020 it was announced, “face coverings will now be required outside unless you are alone or with people in your home, and the city will only allow groups of five unrelated people or less to gather.“...

In July of 2020, Colorado was ranked as having “the 5th most coronavirus-related restrictions in the country,”... Snitches were encouraged: “People wanting to report face mask violators are asked to call 311,” proclaimed CBS news...

Governor Polis, was the biggest spokesman for shutting down the State... He called Coloradans who wouldn’t restrict their breathing “selfish bastards.”... 

He held Colorado hostage, saying, “If enough people are inoculated with a 90% effective vaccine, it ends the pandemic.”

Reality told a different story...

Westword reporter Michael Roberts called Coloradans who opposed the State’s fear-mongering “deniers,” a sick and outlandish comparison to Holocaust Deniers...

Eager to exploit the situation, Denver Democrats attempted to provide relief based upon whether the business was “minority-owned.”..

Coloradans saw a glimpse of a future where liberty no longer existed, and a total authoritarian surveillance state was in place....

Reality was Ignored

In September 2020, the CDC’s own data showed that Covid was not much more of a threat than the seasonal flu.

And in late 2020, data and studies showed that lockdowns did not reduce transmission. (another source)

In January of 2021, it was admitted that some tests the State of Colorado were using were not entirely accurate.

Pfizer even admitted their vaccine did not prevent Covid....