Posted on 05/01/2020 11:32:37 AM PDT by CedarDave
GALLUP, N.M. —
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has authorized the lockdown of Gallup at the mayor’s request.
The governor will invoke the state’s Riot Control Act, which will authorize her to enact further temporary restrictions to stop the spread of COVID-19 in that city.
The order goes into effect on Friday at 12 p.m. and will expire on Monday at noon.
The lock-down will order all roads into Gallup be closed, businesses in the city will close from 5 p.m. to 8 a.m. and vehicles can have a max of two individuals. Residents are ordered to remain in their residence except for emergency outings for essential healthy, safety and welfare.
“I recognize this request is unusual and constitutes a drastic measure, and the emergency powers set out under the Riot Control Act should be invoked sparingly,” said Mayor Louis Bonaguidi. “However, the COVID-19 outbreak in the city of Gallup is a crisis of the highest order. Immediate action is necessary.”
“The spread of this virus in McKinley County is frightful,” said Gov. Lujan Grisham, “and it shows that physical distancing has not occurred and is not occurring. The virus is running amok there. It must be stopped, and stricter measures are necessary. A problem in one part of our state, with a virus this dangerous and this contagious, is a problem for our entire state. The imperative for all of us to remain home and physically distant has not changed. It is even more crucial for New Mexicans in the northwestern region. But what is happening in the northwest could happen in any part of our state. We must remain vigilant.”
As of Thursday, McKinley County had 1,027 reported cases of COVID-19. That is more than 30% of the state's total positive cases.
I guess it ain’t a Joe Leaphorn novel up there.
High death rate was for the whole county. The deaths in the one family was probably what triggered the lockdown.
Yeah, I was born in 50’. I was making a joke.
Back when I was young, dumb and stupid a couple of buddies and I did a Western road trip and passed through Gallup about suppertime.
I recall a cool looking Mexican restaurant in a hacienda type building with fake Sonoran cactus and mannequins wearing sombreros outside.
We passed by and ate at Taco Bell.
Sorry about that.
I avoided the humorectomy that a few others had on here today and didn’t see your sarcasm, which in retrospect should have been obvious.
“a really boring Indian movie”
Since you are closer to the area than me there is a question i’d like to ask.
Heading east on I-40 several miles before you get to Gallup there was what looked like a military base with dozens earth berm bunkers visible from the highway. Do you know what was stored in those bunkers?
Thats got to be the best new screen name on FR. Welcome.
Well, down here south of the Picket Wire, the name Liberty Valance seems a pretty good handle, too. Thank you for the Welcome.
The Navajo Nation has been hit hard in AZ too. I don't have the numbers; just read about it in passing. They were desperate for masks because it was spreading so fast.
One wonders if diet and/or vitamin supplements make a difference and also if those on the Res come in contact with the germs and viruses non Res people do. It wouldn't be the first time Indians were badly affected by the white man's germs.
If you go to Page, AZ right after the local Indians get their monthly check you will find a bunch of them passed out on the grass in town. Some still in their Native American costumes they use to put on shows for the tourists.
Can't speak to how it is now but that last time I was there around 2004 the state police didn't bother giving the local Indian's DUI's because they would just cry racism. Moral of the story; stay away from all reservations when they get their month checks.
I guess someone had to go there. History repeating. ;)
Is that code for having sex?
We now.have to apologize to all of those banana republics that we made fun of. They had police forces and governments that trampled all over peoples civil liberties.
Now we are doing the same thing.
Churchrock just east of Gallup was the site of the greatest release of radioactivity in the US outside of planned airborne nuclear explosions. In July 1979, an uranium mill tailings pond broke. The breach released more than 1,100 short tons (1,000 t) of solid radioactive mill waste and 94 million US gallons (360,000 m3) of acidic, radioactive tailings solution into the Puerco River which flows through downtown Gallup. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Rock_uranium_mill_spill )
I was a technician with NM environmental agency at the time and got assigned to go to Gallup and sample the river (which usually only flows in response to precipitation events). At a bridge over the river I climbed down the bank to get a water sample. A police officer who saw me and asked what I was doing told me that I needed to be careful as there were many Indians who used the bridge for shelter after boozing on cheap wine.
It is the location of the former Fort Wingate which has a checkered past with the control of the Navajo’s for the “long walk” to Fort Sumner after the Civil War and later control of them after they returned.
In the 20th century Fort Wingate supplied 100 tons of Composition B high explosives to the Manhattan Project for use in the first Trinity test and became an ammunition depot “Fort Wingate Depot Activity” from World War II until BRAC closed it in 1993. Environmental cleanup of UXO, perchlorate and lead as well as land transfer continue to the present day.
( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Wingate )
Thank-you.
Have you tried it in a classic ‘Vette?
I thought those people got ankle monitors.
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