{"id":805625,"date":"2020-03-24T12:25:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T18:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=380889"},"modified":"2020-03-24T12:25:19","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T18:25:19","slug":"why-colorado-gov-jared-polis-has-resisted-a-statewide-stay-at-home-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/why-colorado-gov-jared-polis-has-resisted-a-statewide-stay-at-home-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has resisted a statewide stay-at-home order"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Governor of Colorado Jared Polis orders Colorado employers to reduce in-person workforce by fifty percent at a press conference on Sunday, March 22, 2020.<\/strong>
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The strictest social distancing mandates in Colorado have come from San Miguel County<\/a>, Denver<\/a> and Boulder<\/a>, which have all issued stay-at-home orders forbidding activity deemed nonessential, as the state battles the spread of the new coronavirus.<\/p>\n

Gov. Jared Polis commended<\/a> the local action, but he has declined so far<\/a> to issue such an order statewide. He said Sunday he prefers targeted, strategic measures \u2014 as he tells it, he\u2019s wielding a fine-tooth comb \u201crather than a mallet.\u201d<\/p>\n

That approach is getting mixed reviews.<\/p>\n

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The 2,400-member Colorado Academy of Family Physicians is publicly calling on Polis<\/a> to order a statewide lockdown. Denver City Councilwoman Amanda Sawyer sent a letter to Polis with the same request. And Denver Mayor Michael Hancock said he pushed Polis to go big.<\/p>\n

Read more via The Denver Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Governor of Colorado Jared Polis orders Colorado employers to reduce in-person workforce by fifty percent at a press conference on Sunday, March 22, 2020.Eric Lutzens, The Denver Post The strictest social distancing mandates in Colorado have come from San Miguel County, Denver and Boulder, which have all issued stay-at-home orders forbidding activity deemed nonessential, as the state battles the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 12:24:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}