Recently, I was hiking with four friends in the Sandia Mountains, just east of Albuquerque.  I didn't think about it at the time, but because there were five of us, technically, we were a "mass gathering" under one of New Mexico's many Wuhan virus public health orders.  Had the hike taken place on state or private land, we could have been subject to a whopping fine of $5,000 each.  Fortunately, the hike took place on federal land, so the state public health order did not apply. How did N.M. arrive at a point where hikers in the woods could be subject to a $5,000 fine if there were five or more of them on non-federal land? The Wuhan virus crazy season officially began in N.M. on March 11, 2020, when its diminutive governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham (MLG), signed an executive order declaring a public health emergency.  As New Mexicans would soon discover, in 2003, its Democrat-controlled state Legislature and its Democrat...(Read Full Article)