My greatest fears.
From FR front page
We’re almost to 10 thousand posts. Everyone ready for a new thread?
I’m amazed it has taken this long.
This will spread like wildfire.
From the article:
If you’re thinking this sounds crazy, you’re 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 wouldn’t be on the street in the first place. So issuing guidance by handing out fliers isn’t 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 we’ll see if the threat of coronavirus changes the calculation or if we’ll still allow addicts and people with mental problems to carry on like normal.