Jewish Colorado Gov Tears Up At Comparison Of COVID-19 Order To Nazi Germany

DENVER, COLORADO - APRIL 13: Colorado Governor Jared Polis briefs media on the state’s response to COVID-19 at the governor’s residence, at Boettcher Mansion, on April 13, 2020 in Denver, Colorado. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)
DENVER, COLORADO - APRIL 13: Colorado Governor Jared Polis briefs media on the state"u2019s response to COVID-19 at the governor"u2019s residence, at Boettcher Mansion,"t"non April 13, 2020 in Denver, Colorado. (Phot... DENVER, COLORADO - APRIL 13: Colorado Governor Jared Polis briefs media on the state"u2019s response to COVID-19 at the governor"u2019s residence, at Boettcher Mansion,"t"non April 13, 2020 in Denver, Colorado. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images) MORE LESS
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The governor of Colorado teared up briefly on Wednesday when asked about comparisons between his social distancing orders to combat the spread of COVID-19 and Nazi Germany.

“As a Jewish-American who lost family in the Holocaust, I’m offended by any comparison to Nazism,” Polis said, choking up slightly, after a reporter asked about health orders “being equated to Nazism.”

The Denver Post, which reported on Polis’ press conference, noted that late last month the Republican minority leader in the Colorado House of Representatives, Patrick Neville, said Polis’ stay-home order reflected a “Gestapo-like mentality.”

Neville later said, “I should have said authoritarian, not Gestapo.”

Jared Polis is Colorado’s first Jewish governor and the first openly gay man elected governor in U.S. history. Polis lost family members in the Holocaust, which he noted on Thursday.

“We act to save lives,” he said, “the exact opposite of the slaughter of 6 million Jews, and many Gypsies, and Catholics, and gays and lesbians, and Russians and so many others.”

Polis added that Coloradans who ignored the state’s health orders weren’t “sticking it” to him, but rather to themselves and loved ones.

Colorado was home to a number of early COVID-19 outbreaks, particularly among areas in the state’s west where jet-setting skiers from around the world enjoy the Rocky Mountains.

The state has now recorded 8,280 cases of COVID-19, and 1,636 hospitalizations and 357 deaths as a result of the disease.

The sickest area in the state per capita, Eagle County, is home to legendary ski slopes like those at Vail and Beaver Creek. The county currently has 874.9 COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people, according to the state — more per person than Manhattan.

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  1. Jewish Governor tears up?
    Gruppenfuhrer Stephen Miller at the Ministry smiles…

  2. And the lifeguard’s a Nazi an authoritarian when it looks like a thunderstorm and she orders everyone out of the pool. Libertarian buttheads, I swear.

  3. Avatar for fgs fgs says:

    Until objectively proven wrong, I trace the New York outbreak tldirectly to the White House travel bans, which crowded approximately every American expat, international businessperson and traveler in the same, seven-hour customs line at once.

  4. “As a Jewish-American who lost family in the Holocaust, I’m offended by any comparison to Nazism,” Polis said, choking up slightly, after a reporter asked about health orders “being equated to Nazism.”

    As well he should be. They are using every dirty trick in their arsenal. Every loaded buzzword. All to discredit the humane and leverage approval for the monsters. They are monsters.

  5. In WW2 your grandparents were asked to drop everything in their lives and march off to WAR, many of them never to return. Those left at home were asked to give up all the niceties of life and go to work in war production factories and shipyards were many worked 18 hours a day. Mothers put their children in company-run daycare to work in war production, kids scrounged junkyards for scrap metal for the war effort, and just about EVERYBODY bought “War Bonds” out of their meager wages to help Defend Democracy from the Fascist Threat.

    YOU are being asked to sit on the goddamn couch and binge-watch Netflix while eating delivered pizza.

    Think you can handle it snowflake?

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