Perhaps the assumption is that the homeless do not take all the precautions the rest of us do. The virus is 99% survivable, presumably, but only if you're distancing, masking, not interacting with other people, etc. If those CDC guidelines are not being followed in the homeless camp under the bridge, shouldn't the infection and death rates be much higher there?
Or is the CDC full of baloney?
There is also the assumption that homeless people have compromised immune systems, which I think is partly true (druggies and alkies). That the "homeless community" haven't been clobbered is an anomaly worth understanding.
@The_Reader_David made a good point. The
Sacred Homeless live outdoors, where transmission is much lower
("The answer my friend, is blowin' in the wind ..."). Since many states have shut down
all outdoor gatherings, regardless of how organized for safety
*, an honest study of of the anomaly would threaten bureaucrats' power.
* Running event organizers in the SF Bay Area have been shut down entirely since mid March last year. Since they know how to organize safe food and drink handling at aid stations and how to do staged starts to keep groups entering the course reasonably sized, organizing for Covid safety would be within their organizational skillset. Ditto for churches and many other businesses and organizations that do large-ish gatherings. But
No-Thought Regulations serve bureaucrats' officious power hunger.
