New Mexico Governor Orders Flags Half-Staff For Week Of Mourning As State Reaches 1,000 Death COVID-19 Milestone

Los Alamos Daily Post ^ | October 30, 2020 | Carol A. Clark

[CedarDave]

“Take this virus seriously … Don’t wait for the illness and death it delivers to arrive on your doorstep.” –Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham

SANTA FE – Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham ordered state flags to half-staff this afternoon for a week of mourning in recognition of the state of New Mexico recording 1,000 COVID-19 fatalities.

The state Department of Health today reported 13 additional COVID-19 fatalities, the most deaths reported in the state in a single day of the pandemic, bringing the state’s total to 1,007.

The state reported its first COVID-19 fatality March 25.

The state of New Mexico today also reported 334 individuals are hospitalized in the state with COVID-19, the eighth consecutive day the state set a new record for total COVID-19 hospitalizations.

According to the Department of Health’s latest epidemiology report on COVID-19 hospitalizations​, more than 17 percent of all COVID-19 patients in New Mexico who have been hospitalized did not survive.

Per the governor’s order, state flags will be lowered Monday, Nov. 2, to sundown Friday, Nov. 6.

The governor issued the following statement:

“One thousand New Mexican lives lost is an unfathomable tragedy. For many months now, the daily drumbeat of a few more deaths, a few more deaths has served to diminish the acute feeling of loss. But it is tragic and real for me, every single day, because it is tragic and real for the New Mexican families with an empty seat at the table, a hole in their hearts that will never be filled. I pray for these families every single day. I ask you to please join me in praying for them – and acting to prevent any more needless loss.

“We cannot allow ourselves to become numb. These are not numbers, they are not merely data points. They are mothers, fathers, husbands, wives, sons, daughters, grandparents, aunts, uncles, friends, neighbors, educators, first responders, nurses, doctors, business-owners, entrepreneurs. Every one of these 1,000 New Mexicans was loved by someone. Every one of these 1,000 lost New Mexicans leaves a hole in a family, a community, our state. I grieve with them. New Mexico grieves with them.

“We can and will rebuild our mainstreets. We can and will restore our economy. We can and will recover the jobs and livelihoods that have been lost in the economic turmoil unleashed by the virus. But we cannot replace these souls, these lives, these loved ones. We cannot replace you. And the risk our state, our hospitals and our communities face has never, ever been greater than it is right now.

“I plead with New Mexicans: Take this virus seriously. Don’t wait for the illness and death it delivers to arrive on your doorstep, within your family, to take the precautions we know work. Recommit to the mindset we all had in March and April and May: No errand is worth your life, no visit with friends and family is worth their lives. Please, fight through the impulse to surrender to the virus, to fatigue, to whatever it might be. Please, honor the 1,000 lives we have already lost in our state, honor their grieving loved ones by recommitting to common-sense, life-saving public health practices. Stay home. Wear your mask when you must go out. Wash and sanitize your hands. You will save a life. You will have done your part to protect our state.”

[CedarDave]

IMO seems overly dramatic but others might not think so.

[BipolarBob]

How many have died of other causes such as traffic deaths, heart disease, diabetes, regular flu, suicide from the lockdown, homicide and other causes?

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[SkyDancer]

When did they do it for service people from their state who died in Afghanistan or Iraq? Political.

[T.B. Yoits]

How many times has New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham ordered the flag lowered for deaths from the Flu? deaths from motor vehicle accidents? deaths from cancer? deaths caused by illegal aliens?

Let her fly a flag with a big "H" and a dollar sign for Hypocri$y.

[cgbg]

The Covid deaths need a full forensic audit at this point.

The relevant numbers would be total deaths in the state in the last six months of this year vs the same period last year.

Otherwise we really don’t know what we are looking at...

[Drew68]

Since the flag seems to be perpetually at half-staff these days, maybe we just ought to do away with the tradition altogether.

[BipolarBob]

Are abortions legal in that state? If so, any commemoration for the babies murdered in that state?

[dfwgator]

[CedarDave]

Abortions legal up through the day of birth. AFAIK, partial birth abortions are also legal.

BTW, support for abortion is very high among women and that’s why pro-life US House of Representative candidates are doing so bad in NM-1 and NM-3.

[Steely Tom]

Where I live the flags rarely do not fly at half-staff.

[Lazamataz]

How many have died of other causes such as traffic deaths, heart disease, diabetes, regular flu, suicide from the lockdown, homicide and other causes?

We're gonna need a bigger flag.

[Empire_of_Liberty]

This wasn’t even a good day’s work for Cuomo.

[centurion316]

This comes directly from the Central Committee of the Democrat Party. The idiot Democrat Governor of Kansas did the same thing. She didn’t dream that up by herself.

[BenLurkin]

It is waaaaaayyy over the top.

[blackdog]

Ok. So what was the other death statistics numbers? Cancer? Heart attack? Stroke? Renal failure? Car crashes? Snake bites?

It's a miracle! The only merchant of death in six months has been Covid-19!

[TokarevM57]

...when does a governor of a state have the authority to order the United States of America’s flag to be flown at half-staff....?? jus’ askin’ .....

[The MAGA-Deplorian]

Gosh what are the chances a slimbag Democrap govenor would do this during an election week where the focus of COVID response and blame has all been on Trump? Personally, its time to re-audit all these “COVID deaths” and sue for the money back due to fraud!

[dforest]

Its almost like they are proud of it. Covid is almost as holy to a RAT as abortion is.

[Dogbert41]

So whatever happened to Hydroxychloroquine and zinc? .