Grand County

Grand County, Tom.  Closer to Estes, and more relevant to the discussionwhich is more relevant.  You may want to check it out sometime, instead of forcing everyone to bow at the altar of your false god Breckenridge.

Our neighbor to the west is home to 20,000 souls, spread out over an area the size of Rhode Island.  When I was there yesterday, the entire county, meaning everyone residing in Grand Lake, Granby, Fraser, Winter Park, Hot Sulphur, Kremmling, etc., etc., was reporting 22 PCR-confirmed cases of COVID-19 and one post-mortem diagnosis based on organ testing since testing began in March, or an average of 5 cases per month, which has since been updated to 24 cases and the same lone post-mortem diagnosis as of this morning, for those nattering nabobs of negativity.  Over the entire county.  
Grand Lake, like Estes Park, is a mecca for out-of-state tourists each summer.  Grand County does not break down cases by community, as Larimer County does, but if you press local officials enough, they will admit they are not necessarily centered in the higher population zones of Fraser and Granby, but scattered across the county, with one small "cluster" in Grand Lake among road construction workers housed in the same dormitory, attaching in case reports to their permanent residences elsewhere.  Grand Lake has the same mask requirements in place as currently implemented in Estes Park, inside businesses, with exceptions made for dining, and suggested voluntary but not required mask usage outdoors, and Grand Lake packs way more people into a smaller downtown area than Estes Park.  Yet they have no "Tom Street" equivalent shouting from rooftops that everyone is going to die unless the police mandate double gloving and glue masks to their faces, as is occurring in Breckenridge.  The City Market outside Granby, larger than our Safeway, had 99% compliance, customer and staff, based on my 10-minute shopping excursion in a pretty crowded store, yet no "Barbara Ayres" equivalent appeared to chase everyone back to their cars to make sure they washed their hands with lye after touching cart handles, as is occurring in Breckenridge.  I'm wondering if Tom and Barbara would enjoy living in Grand County, with its smaller, potentially more pliable population, where all three county commissioners are Republican, and the general populace votes very Republican, or if they simply enjoy being constantly unhappy in a place that votes Democrat like them, shares the same NPR-fetish like them, and where they could, if they chose, be decidedly happy.  Probably not.  I don't know Barbara well enough to judge, but Tom is a fucking moron and preternatural midget with a tinny wind-up-toy voice.  I do wish he would leave Estes Park for the much safer Breckenridge, instead of sending his daily doomsday "when the shit hits the fan" missives to buddy Ron Willsuccox, knowing they will be forwarded to the mayor, so they both can have plausible deniability for opinions they are too scared to share in official public forums, like, for example, letters to the editor.  Believe me, I don't like Trustee Cenac's evasiveness cloaked behind a science she can't begin to comprehend any more than anyone else, but to say this town needs true leaders while lacking the fucking moral backbone to act like a leader yourself is naked mud wrestling manifesting as art.  Welcome to Estes Park.  Your mileage may vary, but one employee at Avant Garde contracting the virus over the Fourth, while unfortunate, hardly qualifies as "shit hitting the fan" material.