Granted, I haven’t lived there in almost six years, so the 56 prior may not count for much anymore, but my sense is that this statewide order will do very little to increase masking in CO. People who get it got it a long time back. (Most everybody I know and family still there fit in this category.) People who want to fight it will just dig in more–especially since a D governor said it. And that latter effect just exacerbates the politicization problem.
Edit to add: we need to face it: if the people in a given place (country, state, county, whatever) don’t want to stop the spread, it won’t stop, and vice versa. At some point, the politicians can’t solve this for us. They can provide leadership, or not, and set positive examples, or not, and provide tools and policies, or not. If less than the vast majority of people, regardless of their political persuasion, get on board stopping this, it won’t get stopped.
Polis has not been providing that leadership. Essentially he has told the protestors that coddling their sensitivities is more important than the lives of other people. If a law makes a marginal difference in the right direction it is worth.it.
Agreed it’s essential to wear the mask on the nose and lips, not on the chin or on the chest and never dangling from the wrist. Getting rid of the recently grown beard would help a lot too since the mask would fit better.
Assuming you’re from NM, you’ll probably remember today is the day 75 years ago when the first atom bomb was detonated at the Alamogordo testing range in NM. It was called Trinity and no talks much about the people who were within miles of it who got cancer.
We got this up here.
simple commonsense goes a long way/
july 1 we started phase 3 opening.
why is it easier to be stupid than to apply just a little smarts?
Maine
Confirmed 3,598
Deaths 114
Way to go Governor Mills and a big thanks to the population for having commonsense.
Politics should stop at the water’s edge and the precipice of a pandemic. Any decent politician should realize he’s ultimately there to serve the public and not himself. I’m relatively okay with the pandering and the political games when things are fine, but I have no patience for that right now. If you’re in office, you need to meet the moment or resign, as far as I’m concerned. The current situation in America is a scandal and an absolute disgrace.
The usage is correct even though data can be either singular or plural. You want to make sure you’ve got it right when you correct someone else. Or maybe you don’t.
The cases in Colorado are more concentrated than in many other states and are in tourist areas mainly (besides the obvious dense population cities that all states deal with). In my county we have a total of 90 positive cases and only 1 death. Polis has to deal with both and has done a good job of balancing. So basically you don’t understand the problem from one chart. And it’s going to be very difficult to enforce and piss off a lot of reds who will simply escalate their objections and make it more difficult for the rest of us.
If you don’t understand the problem perhaps you shouldn’t comment as if you do.
And OT, f off discobot - I’ll answer anyway I want.
I don’t have the 3 days of typing required to explain things to you so I’ll just say you’re wrong - this is going to make things worse but he had to do it anyway.
I continue to be amazed by this. In Md we have had a mask mandate since mid April. Everywhere I go people are wearing masks. I cannot believe this is still an issue.
My read is that the ski counties–and the counties where the people who work in the ski counties actually live–are particularly hard hit amongst the lower population/less dense counties. Some of the other heavy hitters in low population counties appear to correlate with prisons. Some others, e.g., Costilla, seem a little harder to fit in my simple narrative understanding.
Colorado may, in total sum, be relatively Blue politically. But that is in no way uniform across the state. Many counties are as Red as they come. One populous one, El Paso, is a particularly, uhh, red-leaning, one.
I agree. But what WOULD increase masking is if the right-leaning national leadership began advocating for masks. I’ve noticed that slightly more people in my bright-red area are masking up. But not the folks with “My Governor is an Idiot” bumper stickers on their pickups.
