Democratic-leaning Colorado lifted its stay-at-home order even before Georgia, Texas and Florida. How did it happen—and is it working?
assembled quickly in the pandemic’s early days. At one such news conference immediately after the stay-at-home order went into effect, the governor warned calmly but urgently that without strict physical distancing measures the state could tally 33,200 deaths by June 1.
The state’s less populous regions didn’t remain immune for long. Dozens of workers soon fell ill at a JBS USA meat-processing, where 6,000 people worked in close proximity, in Greeley, a small city in the northern part of the state. On April 13, Polis announced that the facility would shut down for several weeks for deep cleaning. Meanwhile, nursing homes statewide were also battling outbreaks that sickened hundreds and accounted for more than half the state’s deaths.
“This state is starting to rebel. Some people are being favored over others,” Republican state Senator Jerry Sonnenberg—a farmer, rancher and feed lot operator who represents 20 percent of the land mass in Colorado—told me before Polis had allowed restaurants to reopen. “There are a number of us that don’t trust the governor’s ability to get a handle on this.” After Logan County modified its request, state health officials granted the variance on May 23.
Some of Polis’ fellow Democrats, however, noted that they weren’t always given enough notice before rule changes were announced publicly. “There was little communication about the rollout of ‘safer at home’ [Polis’ phrase for the reopening]. It was surprising,” state Senator Julie Gonzales, a Democrat who represents downtown and northwest Denver, said in an interview.
Pent-up demand emerged quickly, with some Denver residents driving almost 200 miles round trip to the county for a haircut. Still, some business owners in a part of the state that tilts Democratic weren’t ready. “We were put in a spot where hairdressers are guinea pigs,” says Monalisa Aguilar, the owner of Posh! Salon & Boutique in Vail, who has ventured into her salon only to serve regulars. “I really felt it was too early.
There is plenty of room for nine employees to move around in the Denver Bookbinding Company’s 4,500-square-foot facility. Still, some of co-owner
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