Two weeks later, Estes Park Health deigns to allow the community to learn of its first COVID-19 death
It was intriguing that selected Estes Park residents knew an 84-year-old man from Estes Park had died of SARS-CoV-2 infection two weeks before the rest of us. This is not osteosarcoma, or AIDS, or tuberculosis, all terrible things to die from, but for which the public's right to know is not deemed critical.
But how Estes Park moves forward depends very much on knowing how many cases of COVID-19 there are, and how many deaths there are, in the surrounding community. Immediately upon a positive result coming back. Immediately upon a death from someone who had a positive result, whose death was temporally related, and not due to other causes, like a car accident or self-immolation.
Does Estes Park Health operate on a different ethical standard from other hospitals? Has Governor Polis granted the leadership team a special right to hide statistical information from the public if it is deemed "troubling"?
How patronizing. How wonderfully overlordly of our little local sanitarium. Don't you feel safe in our local Safeway, knowing Estes Park Health, like a loving parent, is keeping things from you that might impact whether or not you linger a few more seconds in the produce aisle, or look for a little better face covering than a silk banana?
But how Estes Park moves forward depends very much on knowing how many cases of COVID-19 there are, and how many deaths there are, in the surrounding community. Immediately upon a positive result coming back. Immediately upon a death from someone who had a positive result, whose death was temporally related, and not due to other causes, like a car accident or self-immolation.
Does Estes Park Health operate on a different ethical standard from other hospitals? Has Governor Polis granted the leadership team a special right to hide statistical information from the public if it is deemed "troubling"?
How patronizing. How wonderfully overlordly of our little local sanitarium. Don't you feel safe in our local Safeway, knowing Estes Park Health, like a loving parent, is keeping things from you that might impact whether or not you linger a few more seconds in the produce aisle, or look for a little better face covering than a silk banana?
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