Posted on 12/11/2021 4:53:35 PM PST by lightman
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) said that he will not reinstate a statewide mask requirement because the coronavirus "emergency is over" and pointed out that residents had ample opportunity to get vaccinated.
In a Friday interview with Colorado Matters, Polis said he favors encouraging vaccinations over state mask mandates and emphasized that public health officials should not be ordering people to wear a face covering.
"The emergency is over. You know, public health [officials] don’t get to tell people what to wear; that’s just not their job," Polis said. "Public health [officials] would say to always wear a mask because it decreases flu and decreases [other airborne illnesses]. But that’s not something that you require; you don’t tell people what to wear."
The governor's office said in a statement after the interview that he was explaining his opposition to state mask mandates but believed that local governments "can and should put disease reduction protocols in place based off their disease levels and community support for those policies."
In recent weeks, Colorado has seen a surge in COVID-19 deaths but has experienced a slight decline in hospitalizations and infections, according to data from The New York Times.
Polis highlighted that the majority of people who either die or are hospitalized because of COVID are unvaccinated and that residents have had more than enough time to decide whether they receive their vaccines.
"Everybody had more than enough opportunity to get vaccinated," Polis said during Friday's interview. "Hopefully, it's been at your pharmacy, your grocery store, a bus near you, [or at] big events. At this point, if you haven't been vaccinated, it's really your own darn fault."
The governor went on to acknowledge that, while rare, it is possible for vaccinated individuals to become infected with COVID and noted that those that do experience breakthrough cases, in many cases, are older or had preexisting health conditions.
"I don't want to say that nobody [will get the virus if they’re] vaccinated, but it's very rare," Polis said. "Just to put it in perspective, of the about 1400 people hospitalized, less than 200 (or 16 percent) are vaccinated. And many of them are older or have other conditions. Eighty-four percent of the people in our hospitals are unvaccinated, and they absolutely had every chance to get vaccinated."
"Everybody has had the chance to get vaccinated. And at this point, I think it’s almost like they made a deliberate decision not to get vaccinated," he continued. "I still encourage everybody who hasn’t been vaccinated to get protected. And for those who are, make sure to get that booster after six months. The data shows it’s important and very likely even more so with this omicron variant."
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Gov. Polesmoker wishes to be re-elected next year.
“the majority of people who either die or are hospitalized because of COVID are unvaccinated”
Is this true in Colo. over the last couple of months?
Forced vax and mask mandates must be polling horridly for him to do this. Good
"See? Our lockdowns and vaccine mandates and masking mandates WORKED!"
The MSM will back them up. Any lie that advances the agenda.
People are tired of the bullshit and constant hysteria.
He just wants local government to officials to be the ones forcing masks and shots, so noone blames him for it.
That’s what I was thinking. :)
Smart Dem. One of the few. Our idiot Inslee insists on every @#$# restriction in the book and will of course be reelected by the morons in Seattle.
“Gov. Polesmoker wishes to be re-elected next year.”
Exactly.
He and Whitmer don’t like their polls.
Colorado’s Democratic Governor Changes Mind in 3, 2, 1...
Methinks the Democrat-media complex is transitioning from “covid, covid, covid” to “Only the mighty war leader Xiden can save the ‘free world’ from ‘the Russians!’ Diversity is our strength! Xiden will win because we’re darker colored and gayer than the Russians!”
Our idiot Inslee just got re-elected in November 2020 and immediately went full tyrant...and the sheep in the State Legislature will do nothing to reign in his “emergency for life” powers so the beatings will clearly continue until enough people actually push back against him!
He is just like his best buddies, Bill Gates and Tony Fauxi - he simply bleats out the word “science” whenever he makes a new pronouncement or announces a new restriction on our liberties. And no one in our sycophantic media will ever ask him exactly WHAT “science” he is using, because they know as well as we do that there is NONE! But unfortunately, they would rather have a dictator who is a Democrat than to allow a true Republic to hold any position of power in the state!
Is this true in Colo. over the last couple of months?
AFAIK the specific information that could confirm or deny that statement is not publicly released.
If it is I will gladly accept correction on that.
dems have a tenuous hold on the colorado legislature and polis is apparently no dummy and can read the tea-leaves, plus he apparently isn’t buying the National Socialist Democrat Party covid insanity hook line and sinker, and thereby be willing to sacrifice the colorado economy on the alter of covid insanity ...
interestingly enough, this means that those handful of Colorado counties whose health departments have recently issued so-called mask “mandates” have zero ability to enforce said “orders” without the Gov’s emergency order, though all of the local media go along with the pretend “mandates” and most of the sheeple dutifully wear the face diapers “mandated” by their fascist masters ...
these “orders” apply to businesses and not the customers, AND the actual order for Boulder County says businesses “SHOULD” require masks in instead of “MUST” require masks, so there’s actually no “mandate” at all ...
my family knows it’s not enforceable, because we go maskless everywhere except for medical offices that have their own requirements, and no one says boo turkey to us ...
yes. About 80% of hospitalized covid patients are unvaccinated. Even higher percentage unvaccinated in the ICU
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