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Los Angeles And Seattle Announce First Coronavirus Cases Among The Homeless: How many of the homeless were already carriers?
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| 03/30/2020
| John Sexton
Posted on 03/30/2020 5:54:30 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Weeks ago it was clear that the coronavirus presented a unique threat to homeless people who often have underlying conditions that make them more vulnerable than the rest of the population. Cities up and down the west coast have rushed to take emergency measures to get as many people as possible inside, but that has its own risks as shelters are often overcrowded and put ill people a few feet apart from other vulnerable people as they sleep. Now were starting to see the first confirmed cases of the virus among the homeless population. In Seattle, four people have tested positive leading several shelters to lock down:
There are now four confirmed cases, in four separate shelters.
That news has some shelters in the area on lockdown, and others on edge
The big worry [is] that it could be transmitted pretty quickly through our clients before anybody really knows its happening, said Dan Malone, the executive director of the Downtown Emergency Services Center, another of the largest shelter providers in the Seattle area.
Seattle has been struggling to open new spaces for the homeless to prevent overcrowding but the numbers are daunting:
Last week, a report by leading homelessness researchers estimated that King County would need to create 1,770 new units to decrease crowding in existing shelters, and create more than 9,000 new units for people currently living unsheltered during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In Los Angeles, Mayor Eric Garcetti announced the first case of coronavirus contracted by a homeless person last Friday. A report published by the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health last week estimated that as many as 400 homeless people could die from the virus just in LA County. To put that number in perspective, at present there are only 142 coronavirus related deaths in all of California.
San Francisco is making similar efforts and will be opening its largest convention center to the homeless this week. In the meantime, the citys sidewalks have been filling up with tents as the city has put efforts to keep them at bay on hiatus:
If you want to see the challenges and limitations of enforcing San Franciscos shelter-in-place order and observing social distancing, take a walk through the Tenderloin.
Since Mayor London Breeds March 16 public health order, tents filled with homeless people have sprouted up along Hyde, Eddy, Turk and Jones streets all with the quiet blessing of the city. Lines for the neighborhoods free kitchens and methadone clinics stretch for blocks, overwhelming staff attempts to maintain a 6-foot distance between people
We got to sell stuff to get food, to get high and everyday life, said Diana Hardnett, as she sat with two friends, tending to boxes of razors, used clothing and other small items spread out on a blanket at the corner of Turk and Hyde streets on Wednesday morning.
A few feet away, a police officer handed out flyers to tent dwellers explaining the need for safe distancing, as a Public Works crew performed its daily sidewalk scrub-down.
If youre thinking this sounds crazy, youre right. But expecting people who live on the streets to take better care of themselves during a pandemic is really missing the point entirely. If they could take better care of themselves they wouldnt be on the street in the first place. So issuing guidance by handing out fliers isnt going to do much. The only way to prevent this population from becoming a hot spot for the spread of the virus is to take control of the situation and make sure people comply. Otherwise, a lot of these people are going to die and they are going to take up a lot of hospital beds, potentially putting others at risk.
When you think about it, the coronavirus is just the same old arguments we have had about the homeless for years, only on steroids. A lot of homeless people already die every year because we let them carry on as they wish even as they create a risk of spreading diseases like typhus and typhoid to people around them. I guess well see if the threat of coronavirus changes the calculation or if well still allow addicts and people with mental problems to carry on like normal.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: california; coronavirus; disease; homeless; losangeles; seattle
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To: SeekAndFind
Great time to bring in the Bulldozers. You have to hit the reset button.
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posted on
03/30/2020 5:55:52 PM PDT
by
samadams2000
(Get your houses in order.)
To: SeekAndFind
Sadly it will likely rack up a huge carnage among these folks.
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posted on
03/30/2020 5:56:05 PM PDT
by
Buckeye McFrog
(Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
To: SeekAndFind
Are homeless being cited for not maintaining social distance?
To: SeekAndFind
As if I needed another reason to avoid the homeless...
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posted on
03/30/2020 6:01:11 PM PDT
by
ZirconEncrustedTweezers
(Posting from deep within enemy territory - San Jose, CA)
To: Buckeye McFrog
And later, mayors in cities with large homeless populations will crow about how they’ve reduced the number of homeless people in their cities!
Yes, I AM that cynical.
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posted on
03/30/2020 6:02:06 PM PDT
by
ZirconEncrustedTweezers
(Posting from deep within enemy territory - San Jose, CA)
To: Buckeye McFrog
You are (sad to say) absolutely correct. Most of the homeless have multiple health problems — whether from drug use, poor sanitation, poor diet; or, in many cases, from the pre-existing health conditions that prevented them from working and led to homelessness. Around here, they are being given free hotel rooms for the duration.
To: SeekAndFind
Whew..... what could go wrong here???
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posted on
03/30/2020 6:05:11 PM PDT
by
ptsal
( Bust the NVIA)
To: Buckeye McFrog
It needs to pointed out that these deaths are due to progressive leftists policies that enable rather then help these people. I'm not saying republicans have offered any great ideas on the subject but giving junkies 3 hots and cot is going to keep them in the junkie state longer then doing something else.
Liberal compassion kills and it stinks
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posted on
03/30/2020 6:07:15 PM PDT
by
datricker
(Cut Taxes Repeal ACA Deport DACA - Americans First, Build the Wall, Lock her up MAGA!)
To: SeekAndFind
Trump's FaultTM
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posted on
03/30/2020 6:07:22 PM PDT
by
PROCON
(Molon Labe)
To: SeekAndFind
Hell of a job, Starbucks.
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posted on
03/30/2020 6:07:49 PM PDT
by
rfp1234
(Democratus Partitus Delendus Est)
To: SeekAndFind
This will be the biggest explosion of coronavirus of all.
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posted on
03/30/2020 6:10:27 PM PDT
by
ScottinVA
(Prayers up for Rush Limbaugh...)
To: SeekAndFind
Homeless? Define it. Do you mean all 41,000 Cheesecakes factory workers who have been laid off and will soon be? https://www.businessinsider.com/cheesecake-factory-furloughs-41000-workers-marketwatch-report-2020-3
Or do you mean the 130,000 Macy layoffs? https://news.yahoo.com/macys-furlough-nearly-130-000-200735371.html
Or all those restaurants who employ thousands and have been forced to close by Newsome Threesome of Mexifornia, and Insane Insle of Wabid Washington?
An old song title says: You ain't seen nothing yet," and that will soon be the case among the homeless and the soon to be homeless.
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posted on
03/30/2020 6:12:07 PM PDT
by
Fungi
To: datricker
Liberals have treated this as a housing problem for decades. It is not, which is why their solutions never work, no matter how much money they pour in.
To: SeekAndFind
It’ll spread like wildfire there.
What with all their health issues, smoking, and the drug and alcohol abuse, those folks don’t stand a chance.
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posted on
03/30/2020 6:25:33 PM PDT
by
metmom
(...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
To: SeekAndFind
What I'm worried about is what will happen to all the people who lost their job, causing 30% plus unemployment. Yes, when all this is over, some of them will be re-hired. Maybe re-hired before they run out of savings and are thrown out of their current home. But some will start the relentless slide downward toward being homeless.
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posted on
03/30/2020 6:26:19 PM PDT
by
asinclair
(Political hot air is a renewable energy resource)
To: ScottinVA
I agree. The shelters are closing all over in WA. But most of the homeless never were in the shelters, they just went there for meals and drugs.
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They are gathering in the homeless camps. Saw one in Olympia this morning and there they were, at least a dozen around a fire, in the rain, all their tents pulled up close.
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Corona is going to wipe them out. Corona is going to remain uncontained and will break out into the surrounding populace constantly.
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Good luck rounding them up. They want to be left alone to die and infect others if it comes to that.
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They are the original F-U-all gang and have no problem taking others with them.
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
03/30/2020 6:30:18 PM PDT
by
gcparent
(Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
To: SeekAndFind
Does fire kill Covid-19?
Asking for a friend...
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posted on
03/30/2020 6:35:31 PM PDT
by
glasseye
( If 50,000 people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. H. L. Mencken)
To: SeekAndFind
Homeless, illegals and sanctuary cities could be prime targets of this aggressive virus.
In the meantime this virus has rapidly infected the elites/jet setters, who live in/or near sanctuary cities like NYC, New Orleans, LA, Seattle, San Francisco/Oakland/San Jose and ????? with international airports in/near those cities!
Pandemic Historian: Frank Snowden, ‘Coronavirus a Disease of Globalization.......
breitbart. ^ | 3/29/2020 | John Binder
Frank Snowden a historian details how the coronavirus pandemic is threatening the globalist worldview of free movement of people and free trade.
Globalization, Snowden notes, has driven the coronavirus to majorly impact the wealthiest of Americans.
Respiratory viruses, Mr. Snowden says, tend to be socially indiscriminate in whom they infect. Yet because of its origins in the vectors of globalization, the corona virus appears to have affected the elite in a high-profile way, the Journal piece states. From Tom Hanks to Boris Johnson, people who travel frequently or are in touch with travelers have been among the first to get infected.
The infection of thousands of the nations rich and upper-middle-class has driven class warfare in regions like the Hamptons in New York where some of the wealthiest, most liberal celebrities own property.
A report by Maureen Callahan for the New York Post chronicles how the working class staff of the Hamptons elite are turning on them as those infected disregard rules and Center for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines:
Theres not a vegetable to be found in this town right now, says one resident of Springs, a working-class pocket of East Hampton. Its these elitist people who think they dont have to follow the rules. [Emphasis added]
Its not just the drastic food shortage out here. Every aspect of life, most crucially medical care, is under strain from the sudden influx of rich Manhattanites panic-fleeing
and in some cases, knowingly bringing coronavirus. [Emphasis added]
Were at the end of Long Island, the tip, and waves of people are bringing this st, says lifelong Montauker James Katsipis. We should blow up the bridges. Dont let them in. [Emphasis added]
While globalization has delivered soaring profits for corporate executives, working- and middle-class American communities have been left behind to grapple with fewer jobs, less industry, stagnant wages, and increase competition in the labor market due to decades-long mass legal immigration.
Since 2001, free trade with China has cost millions of Americans their jobs. For example, the Economic Policy Institute has found that from 2001 to 2015, about 3.4 million U.S. jobs were lost due to the nations trade deficit with China.
Of the 3.4 million U.S. jobs lost in that time period, about 2.6 million were lost in the manufacturing industry, making up about three-fourths of the loss of jobs from the U.S.-Chinese trade deficit.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com
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posted on
03/30/2020 6:36:16 PM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(NYers fleeing NY are presumed to be infected. They should be tested/quarantined in any other state!)
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