Monday, May 11, 2020

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin opposes any further Wuhan Virus lockdown in New Hampshire, vows to challenge any attempted extension by the state government. Andy says “Free the beaches!”


GOP U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says Governor Chris Sununu should end what Andy says is now an unconstitutional “emergency” that is strangling the quality of life in New Hampshire. Andy will take legal action to block any extension of the current “emergency” declaration and may engage in civil disobedience to test the constitutionality of the state’s burdensome and intrusive regulations.

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May 8, 2020

Governor Chris Sununu
State Capitol
107 N. Main Street
Concord, NH 03301

Dear Chris:

I am writing to ask you to end the purported “state of emergency” in New Hampshire and to reopen the state for the use and enjoyment of its citizens. I also write to ask that you retract your proposed regulatory scheme and allow businesses to resume normal operations.

Because I am one of your strongest supporters this is a difficult letter to write. I voted for you in the past and I will vote for you in November. I want you reelected at all costs. But I believe the coronavirus course you are following is dangerous to your reelection as well as dangerous to the future of the state.

I.

There is no emergency at this time; end the “emergency”

A. In early March there was a genuine emergency. The confused nature of the coronavirus misled many officials, both Democrats and Republicans, to be surprised in early and mid-March. The so-called “models” were a sham and predicted millions of deaths. We had no idea what would happen nationally, or locally in New Hampshire. Therefore, I do not question the declaration of an emergency in March. It is what it was, a decision based on flawed facts.

B. Our Democratic Party opponents never tire of telling us to follow the “science” and “facts.” Well, what are the science and facts? Fact number one: According to NHPR, approximately 75% of New Hampshire coronavirus deaths were in nursing homes and care facilities (please see link [1] below), NOT in the general population. The number of non-nursing related deaths is infinitesimal. Governor  Andrew Cuomo likes to say every life is “priceless.” But every life is not priceless. People are killed and injured all the time. Courts and insurance companies have little difficulty monetizing the price of life. No one can rationally suggest that the entire state should be imperiled to protect a single life.

Right now, 1.3 million people are suffering economically in New Hampshire, in order to possibly avoid a handful of deaths that occur outside nursing homes. Children are hungry, rent and mortgages are behind, and property owners have difficulty paying property taxes to run the state. State government is constantly trying to talk down New Hampshire’s tourism business.

I do not believe you can or should ethically endanger the lives of 1.3 million people to save a handful of otherwise endangered lives. On the contrary, by diluting the anti-coronavirus effort and applying it to all 1.3 million people, you fail to concentrate protective efforts on saving the most vulnerable. The state’s current policy has the perverse impact of endangering the vulnerable while destroying the lives of 1.3 million people without any justification for that approach. (The moronic TV ads saying you are “killing your grandparents” just by trying to live a normal life are just that, moronic ads.)

C.  The emergency which existed in March no longer exists. In fact, the lockdown has endangered New Hampshire’s medical system and cost hospitals hundreds of millions of dollars in lost income, much of which will never be recovered. So, once again the lockdown policy has the perverse effect of destroying hospital and medical resources, not protecting them, for future use.

D. The coronavirus situation is a serious public health crisis. But we deal with public health controversies on a regular basis without shutting down the state. How many viruses has China sent us in recent years? We don’t know. But our state medial system clearly has adequate medical resources to deal with the minimum impact of the coronavirus in New Hampshire. Thus, as a matter of “fact” and “law,” there is no basis for emergency action at the present time. Therefore, the emergency declaration should be allowed to expire in a few days.

II.

When is a beach not a beach?

A. The state’s proposals seem to create a distinction between beaches. If you want to use a beach at a lake, that’s apparently OK. But if you want to use a beach at the ocean, that’s illegal. What is the constitutional basis for the distinction? What is the factual basis? (I much prefer the ocean to lakes.)

B. The Hampton Beach situation is pathetic. People showed up last weekend – great – and the police want to shut down parking and limit access to a great state resource (please see link [2] below). Ocean beaches may be among the safest places to be. There is the salt air, the salt water and the bright sunshine which helps kill the virus. There is not a scintilla of evidence to suggest beaches are dangerous and yet Hampton Beach Police want to limit parking and limit access to the beach. It’s hysteria unbound. It’s stupid. Barney Fife policing.

My family has been going to Hampton Beach for over 100 years. The beach has never been closed that I am aware of. There is no basis to close ocean beaches now. When I go, I often see out-of-state license plates. So what? Is the whole world presumptively infected? That’s simply not the case. Ocean beaches are perhaps the healthiest places for people to park, picnic and enjoy themselves in the sun. Free Hampton Beach!

III.

When is a restaurant not a restaurant?

My understanding is that restaurants will only be allowed to seat people outside and on a limited basis. Is the state trying to ensure that the restaurant industry in New Hampshire goes bankrupt? What if it rains? What if it gets dark? Or what if, as we have next week, a cold front slides in? New Hampshire in late August also starts getting chilly at night. The state’s proposals limiting restaurant operations will destroy jobs and undermine our economic future. It’s a nonsense approach.

IV.

A “goofy government” approach could be toxic in November.

A. Right now, the “polls” (which I doubt) show you doing very well. But if the state stays locked up with a cockeyed approach to business over the summer, I can guarantee you that you will be very unpopular in October and November. There is no way the public will accept much more lockdown lifestyle. The stay-at-home approach worked for a while, but that gig is over.

You are going to face serious hostility if you try to implement your latest set of proposals. I can’t predict what the virus will be doing on the 4th of July but I can guarantee you what the public will be doing on 4th of July: cursing you out for destroying their state and denying Granite Staters a chance to visit a beach.

B. Please don’t fall into the Kelly Ayotte trap. Kelly Ayotte was a decent senator. I endorsed her and voted for her. But she was ham-handed in her relationship with voters, and especially Republicans. She lost a race she should have won, and she may have also dragged down Trump with her. Ayotte had a way of irrigating Republicans and conservatives which led a few thousand GOP voters to reject her. She had a decent record. But she fumbled away her reelection for no good reason (I will write more about her next week).

Please do not fumble away your reelection through a false sense of complacency that the complicated proposals and regulations you seek to impose on 1.3 million Granite Staters will remain popular, because those rules are based on a nonexistent “emergency” and will only worsen conditions in the state, not improve them. You will be demonized by the Democrats before you know it and, like Ayotte, you will have lost Republican votes by unnecessarily imposing an illogical regulatory scheme on the state.

V.

The Swedish model has yielded a much better outcome than the USA one; why not study it and try to adapt it?

Sweden is an advanced society, comparable in many ways to the United States. But Sweden did not lock down, and has an economy that is the envy of the world. Sweden adopted reasonable regulations, ending large sporting events and public gatherings, but leaving groups of up to 49 people alone. Bars and restaurants did not close. Children stayed in school. The result is that while the United Kingdom and the United states brutalized their populations and devastated their economies, Sweden did not. Sweden did not avoid all deaths but the results there approximate USA conditions without the self-induced economic collapse.

In New Hampshire, a huge percentage of the coronavirus cases are along the Massachusetts border. Why punish the entire state for a highly localized problem in a small slice of Southern New Hampshire? Once again, current state policy makes no sense. How is impoverishing 90% of the state because of an unhealthy situation in 10% of the state a sound policy?

CONCLUSION

In summary:

A. I respectfully request that you not renew the nonexistent emergency when it expires in a few days.

B. I respectfully request that you trust New Hampshire institutions and individuals to make their own decisions. We are a state with an unusually intelligent and highly practical population. Institutions such as hospitals and businesses will make sound decisions to adopt their enterprises to necessary procedures. People do not want to get sick; they can adopt approaches that protect them.

C. If the emergency declaration is renewed, I am planning to launch a civil disobedience campaign to challenge the constitutionality of the emergency and the draconian policies the state is proposing. Please don’t make me do it. I want to be able to cheer you on, not challenge your decisions.

D. No plan can cover everything and mine does not. But I am only proffering a sensible and practical analysis of what can be done to help people, not drag down the state any longer. The great minds in state government are trying to kill a mouse with a machine gun. Do everything that can be done to protect our vulnerable population, where the illnesses and death are concentrated. But do everything you can to roll back the state’s burdensome and often contradictory approach to regulation for healthy, low-risk citizens. End it, don’t mend it.

Let’s meet at the beach and have a ceremony burning the emergency declaration. You’ll be glad you did.

With sincere best wishes,

Andy


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