Various people familiar with plague-like diseases have openly said that it’s only a matter of time before something starts up in either SF or LA. The one scenario floated around would suggest that local doctors would try to warn the mayor or city council of the city of an outbreak, and be told to shut up...it’s only affecting the homeless....then a week later, you’d end up with a non-homeless teenager dying from the disease, and this getting out into the public.
What bothers me about this scenario is that you’d suddenly have 20,000 homeless folks suddenly pack up and be moving out of LA or SF....passing whatever it was into a dozen other regions in California, and then it’d just spread out to the east coast. You could see 100,000 dying off each month before control was established.
As you said, so long as it was mostly restricted to the homeless, the general public may not really care or pay attention. But it won’t stay that way for very long.
The chairs or the patients were transferred?? Either way, sounds like more people were exposed and the virus just found a new environment. The guy was sick for 10 days prior so who all was he and his sick wife around in those 10 days and where did he get it?
Precisely what happened in San Fransisco. It's why you can catch plague anywhere in the western US today.