Posted on 08/16/2020 3:47:53 PM PDT by BenLurkin
When the coronavirus emerged in the U.S. this year, public health officials and advocates for the homeless...
... scrambled to move people into hotel rooms, thinned out crowded shelters and moved tents into designated spots at sanctioned outdoor camps.
[R]esearchers don’t know why there appear to be so few outbreaks among the homeless.
More than 200 of an estimated 8,000 homeless people in San Francisco have tested positive for the virus, and half came from an outbreak at a homeless shelter in April. One homeless person is among the city’s 69 deaths.
In other places with large homeless populations, the numbers are similarly low. In King County, which includes Seattle, more than 400 of an estimated 12,000 homeless residents have been diagnosed. In Los Angeles County, more than 1,200 of an estimated 66,000 homeless people have been diagnosed.
It’s slightly higher in Maricopa County... where nearly 500 of an estimated 7,400 homeless people have tested positive, including nine who died.
Health experts say the numbers don’t indicate how widespread the disease is or how it might play out long term. It’s unknown how many people have died of conditions indirectly related to the virus. While the coronavirus may dissipate more easily outdoors than indoors, living outside has its own risks.
With public libraries and other places closed, homeless people say they’re short on food and water, restrooms and cash. In San Francisco, 50 homeless people died over an eight-week period in April and May — twice the usual rate...
The rates at which homeless people have tested positive ...are all over the place...
Surveillance testing of more than 10,000 people at shelters and encampments nationwide has resulted in a rate just over 8%. But...over 200 testing events of homeless residents in five cities showed rates ranging from 0 to 66%.
(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...
I think we will be approaching herd immunity soon. It’s likely that this virus will kill 300 thousand Americans. Maybe a little less. A little more. 0.1% of 330 Americans equal to 330,000.
Probably a prolonged diet of roasted rodents and reptiles washed down with cheap hooch while smoking Lucky Strikes.
I think that’s a fair guess.
The data has been so politically corrupted our grandchildren may never know the real toll...
yup
Because they don’t watch TV and don’t know they role in the planedemic
LSMFT
Any info from China about the virus was either nonexistent or greatly exaggerated.
They held back the real data on virus, and they leaked videos portraying it’s exaggerated devastation.
It doesn’t matter where in China the virus originated, once it was in place the CCP used it as biological warfare, letting it spread to the rest of the world and then sending out false information and withholding their true data about their experiences with it.
IMO, this is an act of warfare.
Harbor Freight virus after all.
I think it’s devastating the crazy cat lady community - which is why we are hearing so much screaming for more lockdowns.
Wellll, ain’t nobody wanting to walk under the freeways where they all live in their filth except for once a week when we pay for the hazard guys to clean it for a couple hours. So they don’t really have that much exposure.
‘Rona has done its duty and a clear side effect that will most likely remove Trump is mail in vote.
I guess living in your own filth makes you immune to a lot of germy things?
I’m excited for the days when the Socialist Democrats have us ALL living under bridges and out of shopping carts!
*SNORT*
In our sanitized world, few build up their immune system. Those on the street, however ...
Love, Pepto
They probably have killer immune systems from all the practice they get.
'Made in China' - NOT a big selling point.
I sometimes feel like I am the only one who knows that we are being conned in a big way. Everyone is acting as if getting COVID is going to kill them. 1 dead homeless person out of 200 diagnosed is .5% fatality rate.
That’s why I opted to quit after the Covid is gone....no sense leaving myself vulnerable...
Has to be some science showing nicotine being an antiviral - many who manage to quit seem to end up with more colds during the first year than they had in the previous 5 or more.
The singular reason is that they - the homeless - are outdoors more often, or always, and less cooped up with others in close quarters. The main route of infection is (a) close contact with an infected person in close quarters and (b) for some period of time - minimum of ten minutes.
In close quarters indoors a centimeter of air is recirculated in the same space many times, allowing for more than the mere passing of infected droplets, but the repeat of that and by that repetition increasing an initial viral load.
I thought one of the most stupid things some governors did was when many of them closed parks. I think infection rates would have been less if parks had stayed open and people were encouraged to get out of the house and go take walks in their parks.
The “homeless” have that advantage year round.
I read nicotine appears to prevent the virus from penetrating into the cell.
That’s the theory.
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