Probably not going to make too big a dent:
San Diego on Friday opened the first of three industrial-sized tents to house the homeless as part of the city’s efforts to contain a hepatitis A outbreak stemming from the deplorable conditions people were living in on the streets.
About 20 people made their way to a bunk bed Friday in the tent that will house 350 single men and women. Two other giant tents will open later this month — one for families and one for veterans. The tents will house a total of 700 people. Related Searches San Diego Hepatitis OutbreakSinkhole San DiegoEater San Diego
The city turned to tents to get people off the streets and contain a hepatitis A outbreak that has killed 20 people in the past year, marking the worst epidemic of its kind in the US in 20 years. The virus lives in feces.
They are still having trouble with that Hepatitis, and it isn’t even airborne.
Interestingly the tents supposedly cost $6.5 Million, for about $10,000 per person. You wonder how much job training that might have bought, for those it might have helped to outright escape the streets. Instead you now have a giant tent full of immune-compromised drug addicts and winos stacked together in bunk beds a couple of feet apart, just waiting for an airborne pathogen to wipe them all out.
Over at the thread on Free Republic, they are discussing the readily observed rise in homelessness posters are seeing all over. San Diego, Portland, Seattle, Denver, and New York are all among the many places seeing increases in people who cannot afford homes. Even as the God Emperor increases the K, the economic deterioration continues apace and the Conservative Policy Mood undoubtedly continues to climb.
All of that is the real K-shift approaching, and no tent is going to stave it off.
It was brought in from Mexico in 2015, from “tourists”, apparently. Which begs the question- why is Mexico not experiencing a massive outbreak right now?
https://www.tripsavvy.com/hepatitis-mexican-caribbean-vacation-1488175
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It reminds me of Montgomery Burns on The Simpson’s, with “the three stooges effect”. There’s so many diseases trying to shove their way through the doorway, none of them can get through.
On that note, I’m continually surprised that India doesn’t suffer constant pandemics. They seem to be a perfect storm of poor hygiene, dense population, and warm humid climate that should naturally incubate numerous deadly diseases.
“…tents supposedly cost $6.5 Million, for about $10,000 per person…”
WOW! For $10K I bet homeless could buy their own tents, a small colmen stove, cart to carry them in and feed themselves for a year. Just give them and area to stay in and tell them to be there every night for treatment or whatever. I looked on ebay and found several 20ft used shipping container for less than $2000. So they could each have their own container they could lock up. Stack those babies up and put some walkways in front and you’re done. Maybe not perfect but better than a tent. The problem is the left wants to “help” people but they make the zoning laws so that no one can live cheaply and they can push poor people off somewhere else or dump them on the street. Their solutions cost to damn much to make a dent in the problem. I saw a guy in California who built a house out of shipping containers and telephone poles. Odd looking but very nice. Perfect for his needs on HIS land. So they tore it down. A waste. Now I can see having more stringent codes in the city or for rental property but if it’s only you living in it and it’s in the desert, this guys was way in the desert, then they should leave you alone. There’s a guy in Huntsville Al that had a trailer with all solar, gas for cooking, I think a well and septic tank for sewage. Nothing wrong at all. His trailer didn’t look bad. It was fine. They condemned it because he didn’t want to pay a power bill. He refused and I think went to jail for it.
The left that’s not crazy needs to get together with the “let’s be free” right and stop some of this Oligarchic control and let people live in small trailers they can afford. If you don’t have to pay $800 or lots more for rent every month you can live cheap.
Hey AC, I had an idea on a potential explanation of defective amygdala. There’s a thought process I’ve heard from a woman who left a medical degree program. It was first you go to high school so you can get to college. Then to college to get to med school. Then med school to be a resident. Then a resident to be a doctor, etc. At some point she said she burned out because it seemed like a neverending process, as if you were being strung along or cheated. Could something similar cause leftists to ignore amygdala stimulation on the basis that, from their perspective, solving problem A just results in a different problem B. Having solved B, now problem C is a thing, and so on. So the leftist brain thinks, why bother climbing this hill if the only thing on the other side is… a taller hill? Maybe faith of some kind is integral to the process of building a strong amygdala?
Could be. I think there is also the element that you can quit the process also, without punishment. Your friend wasn’t going to suffer any great consequence from quitting. She will probably get a job somewhere, and fly rapidly up the ladder due to intellect, maybe making more money than beofre. so no consequences due to free resources also allows one to view a process, and the amygdala within it, as unimportant.
$6.5 mil to house 650 homeless people in tents does indeed equal $10k a person. That’s insanely wasteful, especially considering the insane abundance of shipping containers just sitting there in the port.