Bullets and ballots Ms. Tonozzi (6/8/22 letters) states that because “the U.S. government has some of the most sophisticated weaponry and surveillance on the planet” even every man, woman and child with an AR-15 would.
For the last decade, Aspen Education Foundation President Raifie Bass has championed school programs backed by the nonprofit and campaigned for school district funding sources like bond measures, taxes and donations. His 10-year tenure concludes on June 3.
A Pitkin County Vaccination Clinic was in full swing in the Aspen High School gymnasium to administer the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine in Aspen on Thursday, May 13, 2021. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times)
Local public health officials do not think that large numbers of visitors to Aspen and Pitkin County this summer will result in sky-high numbers of COVID-19 cases like it did over the winter.
While large numbers of visitors yielded increased local case counts in December and January, public health did not see a corresponding rise in cases when large spring break crowds descended in late February and March, said Josh Vance, Pitkin County epidemiologist.
This week has seen restaurants open to indoor dining and public schools closed to in-person learning, but that scenario won’t last much longer.
The board of health’s decision Monday to put Pitkin County under Red level restrictions confines restaurants in Aspen, Redstone, Snowmass Village and other locales to outdoor dining and takeout meals only, starting Sunday.
Yet the Aspen School District isn’t bound to the same color-code restrictions that businesses follow. The district instead makes its operating decisions based on consultations with county health officials and virus trends among students and staff.
“For the most part, we are seeing a huge amount of quarantining but almost nobody gets sick while in quarantine,” Superintendent David Baugh said Tuesday. “And we don’t feel like here it’s being transmitted in the schools.”