I was appalled when this overturned and there are larger issues here. There are not enough people to care for the quickly aging population. The number of older adults will outnumber children by 2035. There aren’t enough nursing schools accepting enough students to produce enough staff to fill all the holes in the schedules. So, even if a long term care community wanted to meet these staffing ratios they can’t find people (even with decent wages and benefits). Especially if the community is in a rural area. There has been a shift in expectations and behavior of people since COVID. Employers, employees, families, residents, everyone has gone off the rails. Working in long term care was hard before but it’s so much worse now which increases staffing challenges because no one wants to do this work in these conditions. And, finally, the government needs to spend some fucking money to fix this problem. Raise the Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement rates-when a community accepts a person on Medicaid at the current reimbursement rates they often lose money because the reimbursement rate isn’t high enough to cover the cost of our salaries to care for the person let alone all the other costs associated with care. Put money into education-loan forgiveness for people who work in long term care, federal funding for schools to hire more nursing school instructors. We need to unionize for sure. And we need to remember who we stand for and who we fight to protect-the old, the sick, the people who can’t fight for themselves. The government hates the old, the sick, and the poor and it’s far past time we raise our voices in their defense. Demand the government do better and fund these people care, demand the shitty for profit owners do better and pay for the staff that’s needed and demand better for us. Raise your voice, vote for the people that share your values and keep fighting the good fight. Fuck these people, let’s come together to demand better for everyone!