Posted on 03/08/2019 10:45:59 PM PST by NoLibZone
Jennifer Millar keeps trash bags and hand sanitizer near her tent, and she regularly pours water mixed with hydrogen peroxide on the sidewalk nearby. Keeping herself and the patch of concrete she calls home clean is a top priority.
But this homeless encampment off a Hollywood freeway ramp is often littered with needles and trash and soaked in urine. Rats occasionally scamper through, and Millar fears the consequences.
Infectious diseases—some that ravaged populations in the Middle Ages—are resurging in California and around the country, and are hitting homeless populations especially hard.
Los Angeles recently experienced an outbreak of typhus—a disease spread by infected fleas on rats and other animals—in downtown streets. Officials briefly closed part of City Hall after reporting that rodents had invaded the building.
People in Washington State have been infected with the diarrheal disease shigella, spread through feces, as well as Bartonella quintana, or trench fever, which spreads through body lice.
Hepatitis A, also spread primarily through feces, infected more than 1,000 people in Southern California in the past two years. The disease also has erupted in New Mexico, Ohio, and Kentucky, primarily among people who are homeless or use drugs.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
For the lazy , get of my lawn wing : I searched.
It’s California.. they get what they deserve.
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Read the entire article, bonehead! The example lady is in Los Angeles, but these third-world diseases are popping up all over the country. At the rate things are going, there may not be much of a country to govern by 2020, and God help us if one of these Left-wing kooks moves into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in January, 2021.
We need city walls.
They are stupid the diseases only have a rats boundaries, the brakes are off. This bringing diseases to the US is not to be scoffed at. No ones looking at this and what, if an advasary sent something that was weaponized up from the border and what that could do.
Import Third World
Become Third World
Most of the diseases that plagued medieval Europe came from outside of it, and were only made worse by lack of personal hygiene. The Black Death, for example, came from China.
What’s that mean? It can’t happen here? We can wash our hands and be safe?? What are you saying?
Then someone should prevent them. This is disgusting. In the California I grew up in, problems like this were rare.
It surprises me that the article contains no Trump bashing.
No Trump bashing. You’re right. Seriously napalm would discourage illegals and destroy diseases. This is the crisis.
What it means, what I’m saying, is that diseases don’t just “happen”. They usually come from foreign sources. Limiting access to your own country is smart, not xenophobic. But what makes it worse is if you have garbage piling up in your cities, and homeless people who defecate in public and never shower or wash their hands.
Where you want to use the napalm?
Where DO you want to use the napalm?
She can always get off the streets.
Disgusting.
I cannot fathom why ANYONE would want to live in a city these days.
Get me as far out from one as possible and give me the arms I need to defend myself.
Course, the homeless are not going to go where ther’s no pickings for trash and they’d actually have to make an effort to survive.
I don’t want! To use it anywhere. The issue we are facing is that serious. Measles, mumps, polio, typhoid, yellow fever, tuberculosis, are all things we, through the years have pretty much defeated and quit vaccinating against. People better wake up they are back. If a enemy weaponizes one of the diseases like these or something else, it could be bad. Don’t get self righteous with me. This is serious crap.
I was not being self righteous, I just did not understand your comment. I still don't.
"Seriously napalm would discourage illegals and destroy diseases."
I have not a clue what you mean by that.
I wonder if this is what Bill Maher meant when he said we want to be like them. I don’t know about you, but I like not having schools closed down for 2 weeks because Nebula and Moon Unit don’t believe in vaccinating their kids.
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