I didn’t see that before. My bad. Now I am intellectually curious how this is governed given that it is from a health agency. I will say that Boulder and BoCo have a history of getting out in front of themselves with this type of stuff and claiming that they have governance when they do not. Point is, this could be valid, or it could be completely unenforceable (as has been the case in the past with directives from the city and county). But it really doesn’t matter because CU will comply anyway.
From a legal standpoint yes CU could ignore the orders from Boulder County Health and do whatever they want.
I'd love to hear the attempted defense in the civil suit if they defied the orders and a player or a coach or one of the team support staff were to get sick and either die or have permanent damage from the virus.
For any defense lawyer here how would you convince a jury that playing football was more important than protecting the health of those involved with the team when the local health department, staffed with infectious disease specialist, likely MDs and Ph.D.s and relying on the guidance of the CDC and the recognized academic experts in the field gave an order specifically to try to prevent this type of problem from occurring.
This is good news, as it gets the area closer to herd immunity. Community spread has already happened, so as usual, progressive policies are being implemented after the horse has left the barn.
The worst thing these progressive idiots can do at this point is: 1) Send kids back home; and 2) SHUT IT DOWN!!! But of course, that is exactly what they are going to do. Liberals ruin everything.
Trust me on this I am no progressive/liberal/left winger. I am also not a part of the Trump flock of idiots who while calling everyone who disagrees with dear leader sheepies act much more like a flock of dumb animals than the people they are criticizing.
The concept of solving this issue with "herd immunity" has been clearly dismissed by the people who do actual science. Give me a single one of the right wing talkers who actually has any academic credentials in terms of medical science, a lot of them don't have a bachelors degree in anything but hey they yell loud and repeat each others talking points until the cult believes them as fact.
I am highly thankful that I don't have anyone closely connected who has died of C-19 yet, unfortunately other people I know haven't been as lucky.
How many lives are you willing to sacrifice so you can pretend like everything is fine? Yes we will all go out to full restaurants and bars and let's offer a toast to those laying in a hospital on a ventilator so we can have our illusion. Let's all go to football games, a moment of silence will be fine for that coach who died and the other teams equipment manager who's mother in law got it from him and didn't make it. No big deal as long as we can cheer on the surviving member of our team.
This has nothing to do with liberal vs. conservative. It has to do with science versus wishy washy thinking by those who won't accept the realities as presented by science.
No surprise because in truth the head of the cult who is encouraging it all may be a republican but he is no conservative. That's a rant for another day but could extend to book length.
