On May 31, communicating by text (talking for extended stretches is difficult for him), Tubbs offered the most detailed account to date of his condition, his prognosis and the response of his listeners. There have been plenty of sincere wishes for a speedy recovery, as well as some nasty trolling by individuals who have lumped Tubbs in with those KNUS hosts who ve denigrated safety orders related to the novel coronavirus and believe he s getting his comeuppance even though the positions he s espoused during broadcasts have been very different. I CANNOT make this CLEAR ENOUGH, Tubbs maintains. The mantra of my program for more than fifteen months: COVID is NOT a hoax. We ve taken it seriously. I was ripped early on for telling people to wear masks. I attended 75 percent of Polis COVID pressers last year. I only mocked the fighting over TP and clearing of store shelves in the March 2020 panic.
But the station s take on COVID-19 hasn t been universal. Morning-drive personality Peter Boyles has stirred up the audience over his unwillingness to act as a denier of the disease (as well as his belief that Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden), and Tubbs has focused on a range of other issues many of them featured in his 2020 documentary
Denver in Decay, which castigated the city for its response to last summer s social justice protests. Indeed, his 3 a.m. tweet marks the first time the word COVID has appeared in one of his Twitter messages in 2021.
Westword has reached out to Tubbs, who recently traveled to attend a child s graduation ceremonies. According to Boyles, speaking on the air this morning, Tubbs had not been vaccinated.