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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @05:28PM (8 children)
Please, people, your "rational" solutions do not apply to irrational people. There is a lot more going on with homeless people than a lack of public bathrooms; the solution needs to be much more comprehensive than that. They cannot be allowed to live on the streets; they are violating both public and private property, and should be removed and treated for their mental deficiencies.
(Score: 1) by ants_in_pants on Wednesday September 13 2017, @05:53PM (3 children)
Being members of the public, how can they be violating public property?
-Love, ants_in_pants
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @06:04PM
You've completely altered everyone's thoughts on this matter. Well done. You're a genius. I nominate this person for the Supreme Court!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @06:06PM
By shitting on it. Leaving needles all over the place, Camping
Our parks and libraries are unusable. Our public bathrooms have shit on the ceiling. These people used to live in institutions and they need to be put back into them.
--Creimer
(Score: 4, Informative) by leftover on Wednesday September 13 2017, @06:18PM
Shitting on sidewalks and in ornamental fountains, peeing in drinking fountains. Everyday stuff like that. If I hadn't seen it firsthand, it would never have occurred to me that someone would do that. A small but conspicuous fraction of people on the street are there because the states closed their mental health facilities. Everything was supposed to be handled "locally" but of course no localities have facilities, staff, or funds to handle severely mentally ill people. If you do not live in or visit a city with a large homeless population I sincerely suggest that you make a trip to educate yourself. Look for the people, look at the people, go and talk to them. If you are not changed by this, you are as ignorant and defective as the Atlas Shrugged crowd and should be ashamed of yourselves.
Bent, folded, spindled, and mutilated.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @06:01PM (3 children)
People such as yourself should be put in padded cells. Luckily for you we believe in the whole concept of freedom. How do you not see how your words echo those of every genocidal maniac ever?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @06:38PM (2 children)
RIGHT? You do, right?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @07:19PM (1 child)
Of course, which is why I said lucky for you we believe in freedom. It was an attempt to point out how such authoritarian ideas as yours are flawed. You don't like the homeless, and I don't like people like you. So, shall we both toss our hated groups into concentration camps and deny them freedom? Or are you willing to acknowledge that your ideas are inhumane and against everything we stand for in the US?
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @07:56PM
Here. [soylentnews.org]