5th Anniversary of COVID emergencies

Five years ago on March 11, 2020, New Mexicans’ lives changed dramatically. Gov. MLG issued the first of what would wind up being dozens of emergency health orders relating to COVID 19. It is hard to believe it has been five years now. It is also hard to believe that New Mexico’s Legislature (even with Democrats in charge) has done NOTHING to reform New Mexico’s excessively broad public health emergency laws. But MLG liked the power of an “emergency” and subsequently used New Mexico’s broad “emergency” powers to further consolidate power (by essentially banning guns in Bernalillo County, for example). This power grab was recently ratified by New Mexico’s Supreme Court.

MLG’s lockdowns failed (as we believed they would at the time).

• Despite some of the strictest lockdowns in the nation New Mexico’s COVID death rate was 3rd highest in the nation.
• Masks, social distancing, “outdoor” dining, forcing New Mexicans to wait outside to buy groceries, vaccine mandates, and numerous other schemes were simply made up on the spot with no scientific data to back them up.
• Numerous businesses closed for good and crime and homelessness skyrocketed especially in our cities.
• Perhaps the biggest negative impact of MLG’s lockdowns was their impact on New Mexico school children who have now compiled the worst scores in the nation on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in both 2022 and 2024.