Posted on 04/26/2020 7:16:14 PM PDT by Libloather
CIVIC PLAZA - A small group of protesters demanding the reopening of New Mexicos economy gathered at Civic Plaza Friday while the death toll from the coronavirus in New Mexico continues to mount.
The demonstration - organized locally on Facebook by longshot Republican congressional candidate Brett Kokinadis and a group called NM Freedom Rally - Operation Gridlock NM - mirrored other anti-quarantine protests held in Santa Fe and across the country in recent weeks calling for the softening of social distancing restrictions amid the coronavirus pandemic.
While the small nationwide protests continue to make headlines and grab attention online, their origins remain unclear. A Washington Post article found that three brothers from Ohio were responsible for some of the largest anti-quarantine Facebook groups in the country.
Whether you like it or not, youre not stopping the virus, Teresa Espindola, an East Mountain resident, told the Daily Lobo. The whole goal was to flatten the curve. Guess what? No hospitals in the United States were ever at the point they thought they were going to be.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailylobo.com ...
During a Wednesday press conference, ER doctors Dan Erickson and Artin Massihi of Accelerated Urgent Care told reporters that nationwide lockdown policies are having the reverse impact. The group insists that shutting down the country is not an appropriate reaction to what current data shows about COVID-19, but the measures are instead causing measurable public health issues. The doctors argue that the lockdowns are causing spikes in domestic violence, sexual abuse, depression.
READ MORE: https://neonnettle.com/news/11101-doctors-call-for-reopening-say-lockdown-creating-public-health-crisis-
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Partisan Media Shills update.
The number of deaths of New Mexico residents related to COVID-19 is now 99
https://cv.nmhealth.org/2020/04/26/updated-new-mexico-covid-19-cases-now-at-2726/
But most are at nursing homes or on the Indian reservations and pueblos (sort of like the small pox epidemics of the late 1800's which hit the Indians the hardest).
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