What Happens When Coronavirus Hits The Homeless Camps In California?

[mystery-ak]

 What Happens When Coronavirus Hits The Homeless Camps In California?

The homelessness problem is a matter of public health, but failing to deal with it is also a matter of our society's moral health.

By Katya Sedgwick
March 18, 2020

Coronavirus panic is spreading through the United States, and local and state officials seem helpless at shielding the most vulnerable among us and curbing avenues for transmission. West Coast states are going into this health crisis having failed to truly assist their homeless populations, an at-risk demographic that may serve as a conduit for transmission.

Over the course of the last several years, experts have been warning that the crowding and filth associated with homeless encampments make them ripe for outbreaks of contagious diseases. Epidemics of Hepatitis A, tuberculosis, and typhus have already been flaring up among the homeless. So far, health officials have been able to extinguish them with minimal loss of life.

As six counties in the San Francisco Bay Area have issued shelter-in-place orders (from which the homeless are exempt), the effort to find permanent solutions for a pandemic reaching the homeless remains wanting. Thirty homeless people in San Francisco are being tested for the illness.

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https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/18/what-happens-when-coronavirus-hits-the-homeless-camps-in-california/

[mountaineer]

six counties in the San Francisco Bay Area have issued shelter-in-place orders (from which the homeless are exempt)

You are now free to poop around the county.

[roamer_1]

Like poop through a goose...
And then, when they find themselves surrounded by illness, in a gambit toward self preservation, they will disburse like infected seeds blown from a dandelion.

[skeeter]

You are now free to poop around the county.

But not really.

[PeteS in CA]

Free-range people with questionable/compromised health and immune systems are in particular danger. Exempting homeless camps was insanely lazy and cowardly, IMO. SF is in a particularly bad situation, IMO, because it is so compact and vertical, and the homeless people are literally in the streets and parks. They are in much closer proximity, as well as contact, with normal people than pretty much anywhere else in the Bay Area. Outside of SF, encampments tend to be under freeway overpasses and along creeks. The closest I come to an encampment is probably 20-40 yards, I see a homeless person on the streets very occasionally, still 15 or more feet away. If SF doesn't get their ... you know the metaphor ... their homeless problem may be "solved" by the coronavirus, taking a fair number of ordinary citizens as well.

[Cyber Liberty]

Am I being mean if I don't GAF?

[corbe]

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[truth_seeker]

Am I being mean if I don't GAF?

What about the homeless in Seattle, in Austin, etc.

Experts correct the condition wrong name from "homeless" to "drug addict"

That iss Seattle cops, and Dr. Drew Pinsky, btw

[Cyber Liberty]

What about the homeless in Seattle, in Austin, etc.

Experts correct the condition wrong name from "homeless" to "drug addict"

That iss Seattle cops, and Dr. Drew Pinsky, btw

The few "homeless" people I've spoken with, were not interested in getting "homed."  They want to live in the street.  Most of us look at the conditions they live in and say, "No way, Jose!"  but they seem to be fine with the arrangement.  It's hard to GAF when that's the situation, beyond the fact I do care if they get sick (I should add).

And yes, drugs are the problem.  It's hard to get a job if you can't pass a drug screen.

[Hoodat]

What Happens When Coronavirus Hits The Homeless Camps In California?

It will be Trump's fault.  Duh.

[Hoodat]

The few "homeless" people I've spoken with, were not interested in getting "homed."  They want to live in the street.

The street is their home.  Hence, they are not homeless.

[sneakypete]

Am I being mean if I don't GAF?

@Cyber Liberty

Well,you COULD be like me,and state the plain FACT that the virus MIGHT make places like SF more pleasant places to live after the clean up.

[corbe]

   City Councils across the nation will begin putting these in homeless encampments with Federal Funds, mark my word.

[Idiot]

Pretty cold group here.  I kind of look at it like....if it weren't for the grace of God go I. 

[240B]

   City Councils across the nation will begin putting these in homeless encampments with Federal Funds, mark my word.

And the homeless will graffiti them, piss/shit on them, and then steal them in less than an hour. These people are where they are for a reason. Or you could say very many reasons. The biggest one being lack of self respect, lack of respect for others, lack of respect for God or even life itself. Not being cruel, but there is simply no helping most of these guys. And if you try, they will simply take advantage and screw you over in the end.

[Hoodat]

Pretty cold group here.  I kind of look at it like....if it weren't for the grace of God go I. 

Eventually, you reach a point where you're sick and tired of being sick and tired.

[corbe]

    I've got direct experience with the 'homeless' in my little community, and help when warranted but as someone mentioned above it is usually alcohol and drugs that help them cope after they've given up.  Hard to get through that fog.  No easy answers.

[Bigun]

Eventually, you reach a point where you're sick and tired of being sick and tired.

I'm there and have been for quite some time.

[thackney]

   City Councils across the nation will begin putting these in homeless encampments with Federal Funds, mark my word.

They will need 24/7 armed security or will be stolen and sold within an hour.

[mountaineer]

   City Councils across the nation will begin putting these in homeless encampments with Federal Funds, mark my word.

They contain alcohol. The denizens will drink them dry.

[GtHawk]

I imagine pretty much the same as when it hits the homeless camps in other states.

[Hoodat]

Coronavirus Update: State Leases Two Hotels Near Oakland International To Ease Homelessness Coronavirus Spread

March 17, 2020 at 7:42 am

OAKLAND (CBS SF) — State officials have announced they have leased rooms in two hotels near Oakland International Airport to house homeless during the coronavirus crisis.

State officials have identified 901 hotels around California that may be leased to provide housing for the homeless.

On a Monday night Facebook chat, Newsom said the state was taking the action to “get people out of encampments and into environments where we can address their growing anxiety and our growing concern about the health of some of our most vulnerable Californians.”

According to Newsom, state officials have already reached lease agreements for 393 rooms at two unnamed hotels located near the Oakland airport. He said control of the rooms would be turned over to local officials so they can determined how they will be used during the growing spread of the coronavirus in the state.

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/03/17/coronavirus-update-state-leases-two-hotels-near-oakland-international-to-ease-homelessness-coronavirus-spread/

[GtHawk]

Coronavirus Update: State Leases Two Hotels Near Oakland International To Ease Homelessness Coronavirus Spread

March 17, 2020 at 7:42 am

OAKLAND (CBS SF) — State officials have announced they have leased rooms in two hotels near Oakland International Airport to house homeless during the coronavirus crisis.

State officials have identified 901 hotels around California that may be leased to provide housing for the homeless.

On a Monday night Facebook chat, Newsom said the state was taking the action to “get people out of encampments and into environments where we can address their growing anxiety and our growing concern about the health of some of our most vulnerable Californians.”

According to Newsom, state officials have already reached lease agreements for 393 rooms at two unnamed hotels located near the Oakland airport. He said control of the rooms would be turned over to local officials so they can determined how they will be used during the growing spread of the coronavirus in the state.

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/03/17/coronavirus-update-state-leases-two-hotels-near-oakland-international-to-ease-homelessness-coronavirus-spread/

I sure hope someone took out a big insurance policy to cover all the damage these people are going to cause(yeah I know it's called the California taxpayer), aaaannnd I sure hope they have a plan for how the hell they are going to get them out once the crisis is over.

[sneakypete]

I sure hope someone took out a big insurance policy to cover all the damage these people are going to cause(yeah I know it's called the California taxpayer), aaaannnd I sure hope they have a plan for how the hell they are going to get them out once the crisis is over.[/b]

@GtHawk
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NOT  going to happen. "Free" housing will be declared to be a human right,and that will be the final nail in the coffin known as "California":

[GtHawk]

@GtHawk
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NOT  going to happen. "Free" housing will be declared to be a human right,and that will be the final nail in the coffin known as "California":

@sneakypete
You and I better hope not, and not because of that old crap 'as California goes so goes the nation', because what one set of socialists do so do the others around America and hard as it is to accept California is not usually the first to pull the stupid out of their As  er burros.