[CedarDave]

At the first weekend of each month, when tribal members are paid (government checks?), an estimated 30,000 to 65,000 come to Gallup for supplies and in many cases water (to fill tanks in the back of pickups as remote hogans have no piped water). The NMDOT has set up water stations at two checkpoints north and south of town and the tribe has provided supplies at chapter houses in various locations. Also they have encouraged shopping at on-reservation stores.

The expected weekend influx of tribal members is what prompted the Gallup mayor and other city/county/state officials to request the lockdown.

On Monday, the NM Health Dept. announced 136 of New Mexico’s 186 additional coronavirus cases were from McKinley and San Juan counties. The two counties combined have 2,014 cases, about half of New Mexico’s total of 4,031.

Twenty-one people in McKinley County have died from COVID-19, and neighboring San Juan County has reported 57 deaths. The 78 COVID-19 deaths in the two counties account for half of New Mexico’s 156 deaths from the disease.

Both counties include parts of the Navajo Nation. Although Native Americans represent 11% of the state’s population they make up about 55% of the state’s coronavirus cases.

Meanwhile, the rest of the state outside the Rio Grande corridor and in Sandoval, Cibola, Mckinley and San Juan counties (when most pueblo and Navajo Native Americans reside) have two dozen or less cases of the virus.

[hal ogen]

Those anti-Indian racists!

[CedarDave]

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If I had a million dollars I’d hire a few doctors and nurses; take them and a truckload of hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin, and zpacks to Gallup, NM.

[CedarDave]

Leland Barger and his stepdaughter fill up several water tanks in Thoreau on Monday to take to his father-in-law, who lives near Bluewater Lake. Barger said he normally would be doing his shopping in Gallup but has been going to Grants instead. (Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal)

[DuncanWaring]

Is it allowable to get off of I-40 at any of the truck stops for fuel?

[crz]

They got cement barriers on the access roads to the Hualapai and Havasupai reservations on Rt 66-at Peach Springs, etc. The Navajo rez the same I understand. They all got it bad.

They are under complete lockdown.

Yet you still see them walking along Rt 66.

[Amendment10]

My blunt analysis of Gallop is based on probably this and one other Gallop thread that I saw. Corrections welcome.

The lockdown remedy to control virus outbreak is a first-responder decision imo. Although the intent of the lockdown expressed in OP sounds like honest troubleshooting, lockdown MUST be implemented early enough, like PDJT did, to make a difference, or it’s much less effective (worthless?) in my non-medical opinion.

Somebody is getting bad advice. I question basic math / science skills too.

[CedarDave]

BEDONIE explains NAVAJO COVID19 high % spread, living conditions and Freedom
Karen Bedonie, a full time resident of the Navajo Reservation, talks about the high spread of COVID19 among her people and also her support of her state of New Mexico. Bedonie is a candidate for Congress in New Mexico, CD-03.

I highly recommend watching this video. It will answer a lot of questions as to why the Navajo's are more susceptible to this virus than others.

Hat tip to Tammy8.