Have you been to the motor vehicle bureau? It’s like a leper colony down there.
Because leprosy has such a long incubation period (2-10 years and as long as 20 years for actual symptoms) we could already have an epidemic in the LA homeless population that will go unnoticed for another decade.
Junkies have all sorts of lesions, especially if they do meth. Nobody is going to think leprosy unless it shows up in the long term clean and sober population or the “helping” professionals.
The homeless population is a function of social programs. Yes, I said that! One must ask how in the hell do they have money to buy food if not given? It is given via social programs.
If one looks back at the great depression and the dust bowl of the 20s and 30s we had many that were in far more destitution than the so called homeless today.
The homeless are mostly mentally ill and drug and alcohol addicted. They do need help if they are salvageable, most are not. Those that need help and want help should be helped. The others should be (and this is harsh) just left to die and not on our streets. Oddly those that face this harsh reality and they are few, might actually try to save themselves via most vast help that is available. It is that simple.
A moral societies first rule is to preserve that society and not destroy itself.
God, I wish a quake would imitate leprosy and crack the coast off the continent out there. Then mine the waterway and line the coast with battery guns on the American side.
I think in order to make sure, EVERY Public Official, elected or appointed, should Personally Walk the Entire Obama Row once a week to check.