We essentially penalized the healthy while decimating our local economy when only 3 in 100,000 fatalities occur for people less than 60 years of age. Outbreaks in these venues were in single digit percentages. Retail establishments, restaurants, gyms, and entertainment venues were closed. Mother Nature is helping with warmer weather and time so the virus can run its natural course therefore, there is no reason to extend the emergency order. The truth is that 97% of all particulates go right through the typical cloth mask made from cotton or other similar coarse material.Īll metrics indicate that the novel coronavirus is decreasing in Boulder County. They were recommendations until BCPH decided to make them mandatory orders. Suddenly those recommendations were reversed, without scientific reasons given. Fauci and the surgeon general emphatically stated in multiple media outlets that the general public should not wear face masks of any kind because they are ineffective and create complacency for more effective mitigation techniques. People should be outdoors where the virus has a much shorter lifespan and there there has been only one assumed outdoor transmission.įor decades the CDC recommended only health care professionals and infected individuals wear N-95 face masks and that the general public should not wear any type of mask. Other localities demonstrated the same ineffectiveness for lock downs. We saw a daily decrease in the new case rate when “safer at home” became effective because there was less familial transmission. During stay at home, the number of daily cases increased a slightly more than average indicating its ineffectiveness. Hospitals were never overwhelmed, yet they extended the order until “safer at home” replaced it. Polis created the “stay at home” order with the well-intended purpose to flatten the curve. These two officials exceeded prudent recommendations of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by forcing ineffective mitigation techniques for COVID-19 under penalty of up to one year in jail and a $5,000 fine. Jared Polis and the executive director of Boulder County Public Health (BCPH) through executive order, determine where we can travel, with whom we can associate, what businesses we can patronize, if we can worship freely, how we earn our livelihood (if at all), and decide our health care. Yet we cannot fully celebrate because all 326,000 people in Boulder County have surrendered those rights and freedoms to two individuals: an elected and unelected official.

Last weekend we celebrated our fallen heroes and those still with us that fought so hard to preserve our freedoms and liberties. Editor’s note: This guest opinion has been updated to correct several inaccuracies.

Dr mark millumin