Politics, misinformation enter fray as 'anti-quarantine' protest and COVID cases continue (New Mexico)

Daily Lobo ^ | 4/26/20 | Andrew Gunn

[Libloather]

CIVIC PLAZA - A small group of protesters demanding the reopening of New Mexico’s 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, you’re 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.”

[Libloather]

Misinformation? From MSDNC? Noooo...

[SaxxonWoods]

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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[SunkenCiv]

Partisan Media Shills update.

[Steve_Seattle]

Today, 38 states had fewer than 20 CV deaths, and 31 had fewer than 10. New Mexico had 6. The nationwide numbers have been similar for the last two weeks.

Yes, New Mexico's "mounting deaths" were a grand total of six, and for this the entire state Is shut down? New Mexico's death total for the entire epidemic is 99.

[CedarDave]

More than that:

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).

[CedarDave]

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