It’s time to lift the public health orders immediately and allow our children to return to school full time, open our restaurants and businesses 100%, and resume normal social gatherings. The state government and the Routt County Public Health Commission have continued to rely on case counts to justify onerous restrictions on schools, businesses, and recreation operations. While this approach made sense in the early stages of the pandemic, when there was limited data about COVID-19, we now have plenty of data and trend analysis that shows hospitalization rates and mortality rates within the state and Routt County are low and very manageable – o.o1% each for those who have been tested. https://www.