What are cities doing with the homeless?

[toobfreak]

Perhaps they're hoping the virus will clear them out.

I look at it the other way: just who are the homeless interacting with to get infected in the first place?

• The homeless aren't flying in from China, Italy or Iran.
• The homeless aren't out at big clubs, events or restaurants.
• The homeless aren't working all day shaking hands with and interacting with other people at work!

Corona goes from infected person to person, it's not just floating around in the air blowing in.

It takes just one homeless person to go to a shelter for a meal and sit next to an Infected person. They bring it back to their buddies on the street, who sit with others....

But where did THAT infected person get it? Were they in China, Spain or Italy? Why are they in a soup kitchen? The homeless don't interact with many people!

I think what is really going on is the fear that the homeless get sick en masse and then become a source of spreading it to a lot of other people THAT MATTER!

Maybe the state ought to just educate these people, find them jobs so they aren't all sleeping together in rags for warmth under a bridge somewhere?

I've met many state social workers. If these people can work and get jobs, anyone can.

In fact, half of them look like they used to be homeless.

You are thinking about victim zero before the pandemic hit. No, it didn't start with an interaction with someone from China. But there were people on that plane that came from China that were coming from Hoboken. And that guy caught it, interacted with dozens of people over the months and one of them possibly gave money to a homeless person. Done! They share the whiskey bottle, a hamburger someone gave them and it goes through the camp like wildfire.

Yes, yes, I know all that. I'm just saying that as a subset of the population, the homeless are one of the lowest at risk of getting or giving an infection because they are among the most out of the loop. I'm just not buying all of the altruistic overtones.

 

[Jackson]

Perhaps they're hoping the virus will clear them out.

I look at it the other way: just who are the homeless interacting with to get infected in the first place?

• The homeless aren't flying in from China, Italy or Iran.
• The homeless aren't out at big clubs, events or restaurants.
• The homeless aren't working all day shaking hands with and interacting with other people at work!

Corona goes from infected person to person, it's not just floating around in the air blowing in.

It takes just one homeless person to go to a shelter for a meal and sit next to an Infected person. They bring it back to their buddies on the street, who sit with others....

But where did THAT infected person get it? Were they in China, Spain or Italy? Why are they in a soup kitchen? The homeless don't interact with many people!

I think what is really going on is the fear that the homeless get sick en masse and then become a source of spreading it to a lot of other people THAT MATTER!

Maybe the state ought to just educate these people, find them jobs so they aren't all sleeping together in rags for warmth under a bridge somewhere?

I've met many state social workers. If these people can work and get jobs, anyone can.

In fact, half of them look like they used to be homeless.

You are thinking about victim zero before the pandemic hit. No, it didn't start with an interaction with someone from China. But there were people on that plane that came from China that were coming from Hoboken. And that guy caught it, interacted with dozens of people over the months and one of them possibly gave money to a homeless person. Done! They share the whiskey bottle, a hamburger someone gave them and it goes through the camp like wildfire.

Yes, yes, I know all that. I'm just saying that as a subset of the population, the homeless are one of the lowest at risk of getting or giving an infection because they are among the most out of the loop. I'm just not buying all of the altruistic overtones.

Have you seen the pictures from other countries washing down the streets? They aren't doing that because people have a habit of licking the streets. The infection drop from people and land on the ground, where the homeless sit and it gets on them. And yes the infection is airborne and can stay in the air for a period if time.

 

[Tax Man]

Started thinking of San Francisco and their homeless problem.. The streets could be called Virus Avenue! Are they putting them up in those fancy hotels? Are they going to disinfect them first?

Lord, what a mess! I saw some jails are opening the doors because the virus could wipe out the prisoners!
Taking a deep breath!

We are using the vacant dorm rooms of colleges and hotels for the homeless.

 

[Jackson]

Started thinking of San Francisco and their homeless problem.. The streets could be called Virus Avenue! Are they putting them up in those fancy hotels? Are they going to disinfect them first?

Lord, what a mess! I saw some jails are opening the doors because the virus could wipe out the prisoners!
Taking a deep breath!

We are using the vacant dorm rooms of colleges and hotels for the homeless.

"Honey, We are taking Johnny out of college..."