It looks like about one-third of the area is in New Mexico.
Posted on 05/04/2020 10:58:07 AM PDT by CedarDave
SANTA FE – An emergency declaration requested by the mayor of Gallup and authorized by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham will be extended through noon, Thursday, May 7, per the mayor’s request. The action is intended to continue the aggressive physical distancing in the community and thus mitigate transmission of COVID-19.
In response to an emergency request from Gallup Mayor Louis Bonaguidi, the governor at 12 p.m. on Friday, May 1, invoked the state’s Riot Control Act, authorizing her to enact further temporary restrictions to mitigate the uninhibited spread of COVID-19 in that city.
An emergency declaration made under the act is in effect until noon the third day after it becomes effective.
Mayor Bonaguidi on Sunday requested an emergency declaration be extended rather than allowed to expire Monday; the governor granted the request and will formalize the extension Monday. The mayor’s letter is attached to this news release.
The emergency declaration closes all roads into Gallup, limited business hours, restricted how many individuals could travel in a car at once and directed Gallup residents to remain at home except for emergency outings. Upon the mayor’s request, the hours of business closures will be amended. Business curfew hours will mirror the curfew on the nearby Navajo Nation, from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m.
“Only through the extension of the invocation of your authority under the Riot Control Act can our community impose the measures necessary to stem transmission of COVID-19,” wrote Mayor Bonaguidi.
Gallup city police and McKinley County sheriff’s department have partnered with New Mexico State Police and Department of Transportation to enforce the emergency order and road closures. The New Mexico National Guard has also provided support to this effort in a non-law enforcement capacity.
The Riot Control Act authorizes the governor to, for the temporary existence of a state of emergency, prohibit persons being on public streets and the use of certain streets and highways, among other broad emergency restrictions.
Because of the extreme heightened risk of transmission in the northwestern region of the state, McKinley County — along with neighboring San Juan and Cibola counties — remain subject to the Secretary of Health’s public health order of April 11.
Moderate easings incorporated in the modified public health order effective Friday, May 1, do not apply in those counties.
McKinley County as of Sunday afternoon had reported 1,144 positive cases of COVID-19, the most positive cases in the entire state, outstripping even far more populous counties.
It looks like about one-third of the area is in New Mexico.
It is very interesting that the Indians now are agreeing with those in the 1800s who said that they MUST be contained on reservations because they cannot govern themselves.
Tribal leaders better be very careful because they are “that far” from agreeing with people like William T. Sherman.
The number of “cases” and “deaths” are meaningless. It’s how many hospitalizations and ICU admissions due to the CCP virus that matters. This lockdown in Gallup seems to be an over-reaction.
That must be an old map, as US491 still shows as US666, and US550 still shows as NM44.
Grisham may wind up as Biden’s running mate.
I don’t see the problem. Who would want to go to Gallup, anyway?
** ducking **
I used to do a lot of work out in that area, so I know of what I speak.
:^)
I’m assuming the governor has discouraged the use of hydroxychloroquine + azithromycin + zinc as a treatment because Trump mentioned it, it works, and would render the shutdown unnecessary.
The checkerboard areas include Navajo trust lands (shown), Federal government lands (BLM) and private lands owned by individuals Navajos. There have been past conflicts where the individual Navajo land owners wanted to develop their land for mineral exploration but subsurface rights were retained by the Feds. In any event there are numerous Navajo chapters east of the reservation boundary shown on your map and between US Highway 550.
Just watched a segment on Laura Ingraham’s show where the use of HCQ+Zpac+Z is now discouraged by FDA’s statement warning such use of HCQ can cause heart problems. Apparently things have retreated to the point where for the Feds the drug combination is to be avoided except as a last chance treatment in the hospital. Laura had on a Houston doctor who treated nursing home patients with the protocol with 93% success and no heart problems. There continues to be widespread discrimination against any use of HCQ becasue the President specifically mentioned it, and as Laura said,this will result in unnecessary deaths.
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