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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: 5, Interesting) by idiot_king on Friday December 08 2017, @07:02PM (10 children)
"The homeless problem wasn't a problem until their poop got on my shoes!"
Just goes to show how out of touch the Haves are with the Have Nots. "If it was another city," that's rich. Because California somehow isn't the most progressive state in the Trumpenreich? They've practically removed themselves from the map after you jerks elected that orange racist, and they've been VERY vocal about it.
And if government at ANY scale is complicated, explain why COMMUNIST CHINA doesn't seem to have a problem with rapid expansion and surpassing the US of Capitalism in terms of wealth and GDP, and absolutely crushing the US in terms of computing power? They're as centralized as it gets. You literally need 1 phone app for almost everything there. No, it's the Capitalists that can't do government right, never have, never will.
Well, okay, I have to give it to the capitalists for destroying OTHER governments worldwide. They're astonishingly deadly in that respect. Quite literally deadly.
(Score: 3, Touché) by JoeMerchant on Friday December 08 2017, @08:21PM (2 children)
In the late 1980s poop on the streets was the Manhattan and greater New York signature smell.
I think it was Giuliani who got that situation cleaned up, not quite sure how he managed it, but it was dramatically improved when I went back ~12 years later.
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(Score: 2) by legont on Saturday December 09 2017, @05:01AM (1 child)
I lived through this Giuliani period in NYC. Police basically drove them out (as well as prostitutes; girls we moving in herds at first from usual Manhattan places to Queens, Bronx and NJ, but were eradicated spot by spot.) A lot of them - homeless and prostitutes - moved to Montreal at the time. It was fun to hear pure NY accents on the streets over there. I remember wondering how the hell homeless survive in Canada's weather - stupid me those days.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 09 2017, @03:28PM
And how do they?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 08 2017, @08:31PM (4 children)
Trump is orange on CNN. Trump is not orange on Fox.
Ask yourself, how is this possible?
Many conservatives share this odd property of having weird color when seen on liberal media. For example, consider Bannon on CBS, looking perhaps alcoholic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkF9Ab8wblM [youtube.com]
You are being subtly manipulated. Color connects with emotion, which the mind later rationalizes as supposed "reason" and "logic".
(Score: 4, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday December 08 2017, @08:54PM
Bannon's color isn't what makes him look alcoholic. It's the fact that he looks like a 300-pound fusion of, as a friend put it, Dolores Umbridge and Pigpen from Peanuts.
Seriously the guy looks like an evil, massively overweight version of Chris Hitchens with none of the latter's charm, wit, learning, or insight. And from the looks of it, far worse taste in alcoholic beverages. He looks like he'll throw back turpentine if he can't find anything else to wet his whistle and scramble his brains for a bit.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Friday December 08 2017, @09:25PM
Happened to George Zimmerman as well.
I did find it interesting that Trump so objected to people calling him orange that he hasn't been getting fake tans.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Saturday December 09 2017, @02:01AM (1 child)
I'm watching this dumb video, high off my ass mind you, and the before and after part at the end made me lol and close it. The before and after shots of Bannon both look equally horrible. He went from looking tan and greasy to looking pale and sickly. Charlie Rose looked like he took makeup tips from Trump.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 09 2017, @03:29PM
Charlie Rose didn't take Trump's most important tip: never admit guilt.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Sulla on Friday December 08 2017, @09:22PM
There is a difference between those who for various reasons cannot work and those who for various reasons will not work. In the city in which I live there is a pretty big segregation between those two categories. For a number of decades you would have year-round homeless who had a legitimate need that the community can and did address between work programs, food kitchens, lodging, clothing, etc. Once a year right after the forest festival the festival goers (transients) would wander into town and use up the whole year's worth of homeless resources (can't really tell who is who) and then leave town as soon as the resources are done. A couple of years ago the transients realized that as long as they "needed it" the community would find a way to get more resources. We went from one person for every couple street corners to arguing and bickering between people on every street corner.
They would shit on the sidewalk so the city started paying for portapoties, they kept shitting on the sidewalk so now the city has to wash the sidewalk. They would violate private property (peoples back yards) so the city paid for homeless camps to be set up with what have become permanent dwellings, the response was for more transients to come and do the same things so the city would react the same way.. I think we have around ten right now. We have gone from being barely listed to being listed near the top for violent crime in our state. The resources that transients want are the free stuff and lodging resources but refuse to use the free job services even though we have jobs available in the area for people with no history.
If someone is down on their luck and needs some help, I absolutely am for giving them assistance to try to get into a better situation. But I have no desire to help those who refuse help and only want to live on the dime of those who are forced to work. There are millions out there barely making ends meet, the answer is not to continue increasing the burden of taxes so they end up getting laid off or can't afford their rent.
Blaming capitalism doens't do much good because in a communist society these would be the same people that would refuse to work and needed to be pulled along by the people who are willing to work. Marx suggestion of solving this problem was to cull the lumpen-proletariat, at least in capitalism they can live on the streets without being shot.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 2) by meustrus on Friday December 08 2017, @10:23PM
I was referring to the sunny weather, and how cities that experience real winter tend to have to build shelters so the coroner has less work to do when the subzero temperatures roll in.
If there isn't at least one reference or primary source, it's not +1 Informative. Maybe the underused +1 Interesting?