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San Diego workers will power-wash streets with a bleach solution in an attempt to stop the spread of Hepatitis A:
At least 15 people have died in San Diego from an ongoing hepatitis A outbreak. In an effort to stop the spread of the viral liver disease, city officials have begun power-washing streets across the downtown area, according to NBC San Diego.
As of Monday, workers dressed in protective white gear and red hard hats were seen outside spraying the sidewalks with a bleach-based liquid in hopes of killing the virus that lives in human feces. "We're probably going to be doing them every other Monday, see how that works out at least for the time being," Jose Ysea, a city spokesman, told NBC San Diego.
The high-pressure power-washing system using bleach will hopefully remove "all feces, blood, bodily fluids or contaminated surfaces," according to a sanitation plan included in a letter delivered to San Diego city officials, the Associated Press reports. For now, just streets in San Diego are being washed, but in the near future hand-washing and street-sanitizing efforts will be implemented in other cities in the region, Dr. Wilma Wooten, the region's public health officer, told the AP.
Also at LA Times. San Diego outbreak page.
Previously: San Diego Declares Emergency Due to Outbreak of Hepatitis A
(Score: 4, Interesting) by edIII on Wednesday September 13 2017, @07:16PM (3 children)
That's unreasonable. It's easy to become homeless these days, and you don't need mental illness, poor judgement, or bad character to have it happen to you. Just one hellbound executive fuckface saving enough money for their bonuses by letting you go, and giving the business to China, and BOOM, homeless when the average two weeks worth of savings run out. That's assuming it isn't now days worth of savings if that.
What are we do? Forcefully put them on trains and ship them out in the middle of nowhere? Send them all to the Four Corners? What people are not accepting is that normal people with skills are becoming homeless unable to make artificially inflated rents or compete in the service industries for slave wages.
We would spend more shipping them to homeless camps, keeping the camps up, and basically running refugee camps akin to the Syrians in the EU living out hell in limbo. Better put up fences too, otherwise homeless people being humans and all, will simply migrate back to a city or town where they can eek out a living off scraps and people with compassion and empathy. Again, those people ARE US just a few bad steps away.
The answer isn't to not feed them, not clothe them, and to not provide any infrastructure or housing. Do that, and you have a bunch of humans on your hands that rather inconveniently for us, still possess the urge to live. I've heard that shit from grocery stores when I go in and ask if they would discount some food if a bought a lot of it and gave it to some of the homeless outside. "Oh no, we don't want to encourage them!". Uh huh. About 500 homeless people laying about in my small city living along the train tracks and back alleys near the grocery store. As if the people giving them food are encouraging them to be there. More likely that there isn't any other space for them to occupy since the underpasses are already full.
Again, creating refugee camps isn't the answer. They will just continue to grow while the Middle Class falls into the Poor class, the Upper Classes consolidate wealth and power, and we eventually have some asshole fuckface yelling angrily to crowds that hate the homeless about his "Final Solution".
Be careful. It's not a guarantee on which side you would end up on. If it were me, I would put out some fucking port-a-potties and start treating them like they're human beings. That, and put the fucking screws to the rich and 1% to start raising wages (which helps compassionate people provide help) and bring jobs back to America.
Nah! It's much easier to just hate the homeless right?
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday September 13 2017, @07:27PM (2 children)
We agree.
You either missed or ignored the point of my post, though.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @07:38PM
Its a sensitive topic, people often respond before carefully considering whether the comment was sarcastic / joking.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Wednesday September 13 2017, @07:47PM
You're right. I missed the quotes. My bad.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.