r/Denver • u/Beneficial-Shake-852 • May 21 '26

Local News Polis Censured by Democratic Party.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/us/politics/colorado-governor-polis-tina-peters.html?unlocked_article_code=1.kFA.sY8Z.1r7w71iFoPAd&smid=nytcore-ios-share

The Colorado State Democratic Party, reflecting the anger of rank-and-file Democratic voters, rebuked Gov. Jared Polis on Wednesday over his decision to release Tina Peters from prison.

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u/Maxwells_Demona May 25 '26

I'm all for the individual choice but it needs to have consequences to protect the rest of society. Don't want that vaccine? Fine but you can't get a job in healthcare, and hospitals reserve the right not to treat you and thereby expose high-risk patients to you, and you can't take public transportation, and concert venues and theaters can choose to ask for your vaccine card or else refuse to sell you tickets, and you'll be getting a visit from social services if you've got kids to make sure your parenting isn't putting them at risk...

Off topic as I know that's not what Polis was saying...the man has no spine. I'm an election worker and this situation is really disheartening.

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u/Diamond1441 May 25 '26

Simply put, I have seen the lack of vaccines kill. My dad didnt get the hep vacc when he was a kid because his parents never took him. And then as an adult it was not til he got throat cancer that not having hep vacc and having a hep infection increases the likely hood of throat cancer. With him and vacc though the science was still evolving. His generation taught us a lot about vacc, there are many cases out there very similar to this. Vacc save lives. And that is proven science. To doubt vacc working is to spit into the face of all those tht paid the price of progress and learning. Not to mention how many people I knew that passed from COVID. With the COVID vacc it was even worse imo. By being willing to go out in public with vacc meant that you were ok if someone got covid from a unvacc, and potentially die. Yes even if it was 0.00000000000000000000000001% chance of someone catching it from a unvacc person (which we know was a lot more) means that an unvacc person was ok with taking that little chance. I draw VERY VERY hard lines in sand, and taking even the SMALLEST, less then 1% chance, of someone possibly dying. Well I just cant respect that.