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San Diego continues to face a hepatitis A outbreak:
Like other major cities all along the West Coast, San Diego is struggling with a homeless crisis. In a place that bills itself as "America's Finest City," spiraling real estate values have contributed to spiraling homelessness, leaving more than 3,200 people living on the streets or in their cars.
Most alarmingly, the deplorable sanitary conditions help spread a liver-damaging virus that lives in fæces, contributing to the deadliest U.S. hepatitis A epidemic in 20 years. "Some of the most vulnerable are dying in the streets in one of the most desirable and livable regions in America," a San Diego County grand jury wrote in its report in June — reiterating recommendations it gave the city over the past decade to address homelessness.
San Diego has struggled to do that. Two years ago, Mayor Kevin Faulconer closed a downtown tent shelter that operated for 29 years during winter months. He promised a "game changer" — a new, permanent facility with services to funnel people to housing. But it wasn't enough. The result? Legions of Californians without shelter. A spreading contagion. And an extraordinary challenge to the city's sunny identity that threatens its key tourism industry.
Previously: San Diego Declares Emergency Due to Outbreak of Hepatitis A
San Diego Power-Washing Streets to Fight Hepatitis A Outbreak
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 08 2017, @06:30PM (11 children)
Providing aid to homeless people really helps them... to be homeless. It's a subsidy. You get more. Do you want more homeless people?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 08 2017, @07:00PM (9 children)
Not providing aid to homeless people does not provide them shelter, either. They don't magically become not-homeless. They can't leave, without money. They stubbornly refuse to die. The only thing that not providing aid gets you is that the homeless get sick on top. Exhibit A: California.
Do you want even more sick, infectious homeless people?
Oh, and, BTW: you're a big, fucking asshole, and not a decent human being.
(Score: 4, Disagree) by Grishnakh on Friday December 08 2017, @07:29PM (2 children)
BTW: you're a big, fucking asshole, and not a decent human being.
That shouldn't be a surprise on a site populated by techies, it's the norm on these sites.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 08 2017, @07:43PM (1 child)
Normie spotted.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 08 2017, @09:16PM
No, grishnakh is, like his namesake, an authoritarian fascist, and proud of it. He's an exceptional ass among assholes.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 08 2017, @09:21PM (5 children)
Try offering a welfare recipient a job where you work. I did, then he wanted a management position making more than me. Then he asked why I work when I could collect welfare too. Fuck em.
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Friday December 08 2017, @09:27PM (4 children)
I was working at a car sales lot as a general lot attendant when a homeless guy walked by and offered to do the job I was doing (raking snow off of trucks) for 10/hour. I told him that the company is currently hiring and paying 12 an hour and if needed I could give my manager a call, he flipped me off and walked away
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 08 2017, @09:37PM
Our welfare system has a lot of strange, counter-productive rules.
We could have welfare that did not discourage work if we structured it differently.
But we don't, because we love strife.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 08 2017, @10:02PM (2 children)
He is probably unable to make a long-term commitment. He may regularly face periods of drunken stupor or worse.
He probably can't wait. He doesn't want a paycheck 2 weeks later; he wants pay the same day, preferably in cash.
He won't pass a background check. He might be an illegal alien or a wanted felon. He is unlikely to give a correct name or social security number.
He doesn't want to pay income tax. He certainly doesn't file taxes.
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Friday December 08 2017, @11:34PM
Nobody wants to pay taxes. And filing them is no fun. No fun at all. I'm fixing that. With help from some of our Republicans in Congress. And I even invited Chuck & Nancy to talk about it, they didn't show up. Empty chairs, folks! But we're doing the biggest tax cut in history. Everybody is getting a tax cut, especially the middle class. It’s about me representing rich people, being representative of rich people. It’s very interesting to me, Bob Kraft, who was down, was very nice. He owns the Patriots. He gave me a Super Bowl ring a month ago, and he said to me, "You have to do us all a favor. Give the tax decrease to the middle class. We don’t need it. We don’t need it! We don’t want it. Give it to the middle class." And I’ve had many people, very wealthy people tell me the same thing. I’ve had very few say, "I want more. I want more." They really want to see. You know, the middle class has really not done very well over the last long period of time.
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Saturday December 09 2017, @04:02AM
Everything you described is a choice that should be his problem and not mine. Using resources of people who work in spite of thise things to fund his abusive life is theft.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday December 08 2017, @09:25PM
Sounds like you have another solution to the homeless problem. A...final solution, perhaps? Lay it out; we're all dying to hear it.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...