Publisher, Mountain Mail
I want to thank everyone for the calls to the paper who were just as concerned about the fact that everyone here in Socorro were kept in the dark about the Legionnaires outbreak that started in the Mayor’s spa in his Best Western hotel.
Everyone was just as upset with the New Mexico Health Department for downplaying the seriousness of an outbreak such as this. The first word that came to my mind was, indifference. That is the only word that describes how the Mayor and the Environmental Board and Health Department treated what could have been a catastrophic blow to Socorro residents and other people in other states as well.
Then Tuesday morning, the Mountain Mail received a notice from City Hall about our drinking water. We are sure most people got the same notice, but we’re not too sure everyone got it, according to the wording in the last paragraph of the notice?
“Please share this information with all the other people who drink this water, especially those who may not have received this notice directly (for example, people with apartments, nursing homes, schools, and businesses). You can do this by posting this notice in a public place or distributing copies by hand or mail.”
WHAT???
Shouldn’t that be the job of City Hall? Are apartment complexes, nursing homes, schools and businesses out of the reach of the City Hall? Are these places way up in 200 ft. trees or something? Shouldn’t City Hall have someone posting this notice about Arsenic in our water and future plans for everyone to see – everywhere? We hate to keep saying it, but shouldn’t a doctor (who just happens to be the Mayor) make absolutely every effort in his power to post this notice and make sure every apartment complex, Nursing Home, School and Business is notified immediately?
Sheesh.
Why on earth would the numbskulls in the city clerk’s office think that we should all start making copies ourselves and begin going door to door in the heat to do their job for them while they all sit idly by and indifferent to the perpetually crappy water we have had to put up with for too many years? You’d think the first people the Mayor and his group would contact would be the nursing home, schools and businesses.
HELLO?!!
Wow. Indifference. That’s exactly what the Mayor and few others suffer from. Hey guys, pull your heads out and do your job, and while you’re at it doc, load up that shiny new white big pickup with some nice clean bottled water and deliver it to those elderly and sick who you very well know – can’t afford it - and need it, but don’t ask us to get the word out for you just because you guys are too lazy to make more copies and deliver them properly.
Maybe you could ask the local papers to place your announcements as a public service? I know the Mountain Mail would be happy to help. Really.
It would go something like this: Water bad – don’t drink if you don’t want to get sicker. City Hall says (again) they’re going to fix the problem soon.
If you live in an apartment, nursing home, go to school or own a business – call City Hall right away – they don’t know how to find you.
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