Posted on 04/30/2020 1:48:58 PM PDT by llevrok
A pair of tents housing coronavirus patients in Shoreline. (Chris Sullivan, KIRO Radio) Your tax dollars at work! As hundreds of thousands of people are newly unemployed in our region, you should know that your dwindling family budget is buying beer and cigarettes for patients at the Shoreline COVID-19 quarantine site.
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I got a tip Thursday from a nurse:
The ‘patients’ are suspected or confirmed COVID positive homeless people awaiting test results or waiting out their quarantine periods. There is room for 140 patients with approximately 25 in house/tent now… they are GIVING (i.e. AT TAX PAYER EXPENSE) 2 beers per patient every 4 hours or 12 beers per day (you know, DTs etc) and free cigarettes as much as needed to the patients. I’ve heard this is the only way to keep the ‘patients’ within the facility. I was hoping this could be a chance for some homeless people to detox under medical supervision and get back on their feet but apparently not… I found it hard to believe…
Well, I can’t go on the air with a tip from a single source. So, Thursday evening, I found an insider who works at the site. What this person told me in a half-hour conversation confirmed what the nurse told me, and it is absolutely shocking.
My source, now confirmed by King County Health, told me they are indeed buying beer, smokes, and marijuana edibles. My source was absolutely outraged that, in a time of economic desperation for so many families in our region, that taxpayers have to buy alcohol and cigarettes for patients who are mostly from our homeless street population. It is a sweet deal for the patients, with taxpayers paying for their vices.
We broke this story on our show Friday. Right before I got off the air, I did get a response from King County Health. They confirmed that they are buying these products for the patients.
The statement, in part, reads as follow:
For those experiencing homelessness or who otherwise cannot safely isolate in their own homes, King County has established an isolation and quarantine system that provides space for people to isolate safely.
While it is important for those experiencing homelessness to have a comfortable space to recover, it is equally important that people with confirmed COVID-19 remain isolated to limit the spread of disease in the community.
During their stay at these facilities, guests are provided with everything needed in order to remain completely isolated and recover safely from illness. This includes providing food, laundry service, and access to medical care.
Patients who are at risk of alcohol withdrawal are treated medically to manage their symptoms. Alcohol withdrawal can be a life-threatening condition and for patients who are unwilling to take medication, providing alcohol to guests with alcohol use disorder reduces the risk of death for the patient, avoids unnecessary hospitalization and thus COVID-19 exposure to healthcare workers, and reduces the chance that these guests may leave before their isolation period is completed, putting the community at risk.
Similarly, guests with nicotine addiction are offered nicotine replacement (patches or gum) during isolation. For some patients, nicotine replacement is not sufficient to reduce their cravings and cigarettes may be offered when necessary to help to reduce the chance of complications from nicotine withdrawal and prevent guests from leaving. These guests are always counseled on the importance of reducing or quitting smoking, particularly when experiencing respiratory symptoms common with COVID-19.
Might as well have fun if you are sick!
Vodka is a lot cheaper that beer, per unit dose, just say’n
“Vodka is a lot cheaper that beer, per unit dose”
A very sharp engineer that I worked for, always drank martinis???
I said they taste like crap.
He quickly laid out a definitive cost analysis.
It must be all those years I spent at Ga. Tech, suddenly being useful.
With lung issues being a big part of this Virus, they should have provided Nicorette Patches, and if oxygen is in use it could cause explosions. DUMB ITDIJETS.
Wash State loves them some homeless gibmedats, anti-fa terrorists, drunks and felons..just ask Gov. IN-SLEAZE.
That's $0.50 for a 12 oz beer.
Err...So I've heard.
Not that I would know....
Someone told me....I think.
Keystone Light Lager Beer, 24 fl. oz. Can, 4.1% ABV
OR
Keystone Ice Lager Beer, 24 fl. oz. Can, 5.9% ABV
???
A friend wants to know.
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