TOP NEWS STORIES AND RECENT READER COMMENTS ON New Mexico Department of Health reinstates ‘crisis standards of care’ for hospitals
Two weeks ago my 94-year-old mother broke her shoulder and spent 96 hours in an Albuquerque ER waiting for a bed to open for her – we would have accepted anywhere for her. Get the vaccine.
YMA MARTIN: To try and clarify – crisis standards of care protects health care personnel from the liability of having to make the choice of giving a limited resource (like admission to an ICU bed, or a ventilator) to someone who has the best chance of survival. Because it has been well-proven, literally hundreds of thousands of times now that vaccinated individuals have a higher survival rate if infected with COVID, if there are multiple people waiting for a bed/treatment and all other things being equal (severity) and one is vaccinated and one is not, the bed will go to the vaccinated patient. To be clear this is NOT punitive. This is simply a triage process of choosing the person most likely to benefit from the limited resource.
SAMUEL M. HERRERA:
Do you remember the exact moment when you became brainwashed?
Labor shortage remains stubborn issue for businesses
TOÑO CASIAS: Would you punch a clock 8 hours a day for $80 or would you make $500 in 8 hours and do what you want all week? It’s not that people don’t want to work, it’s that people during the pandemic found ways to make more money instead of punching a clock. The work force has changed people make more
money on their phones nowadays than working an 8-hour shift.
BRIDGETT BOGDANOVIĆ: There’s such a thing as being “too poor to work.” You can’t afford $1,500 rent making less than $12/hour, gas is $3.15, rentals are slim pickings unless you can fork out $2k-$4k a month for an Airbnb. Those who can work are being priced out and having to move to larger metro areas to afford the cost of living. Y’all should be opening a dialogue about the realities of this so called “labor shortage” because the fact of the matter is, the working class can’t afford to work in Taos.
Construction to slow traffic in downtown Taos this weekend
JO JO CRUZ: Yeah, when you start cutting holes in the road that you just paved, of course it’ll take forever. Should be working on the roads that truly need it.
ED FORDE: I am a 3rd generation road contractor. This is the slowest road job I have ever seen in over 50 years.