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posted by martyb on Monday September 04 2017, @06:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the wash-your-hands dept.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/09/03/548299633/san-diego-declares-health-emergency-amid-hepatitis-a-outbreak

San Diego's homeless population has been hit hardest by the highly contagious hepatitis A virus.

The outbreak, which began in November, has spread after vaccination and educational programs in the city failed to reduce the infection rate. The virus attacks the liver.

The public health declaration bolsters the county Health and Human Services Agency's ability to request state assistance to fund new sanitation measures. Areas with high concentrations of homeless people will receive dozens of portable hand-washing stations. Health workers will also use bleached-spiked water for power-washing contaminated surfaces.

Dr. Wilma Wooten, the San Diego Public Health Officer who signed the declaration into law on Friday, says the sanitation precautions are modeled after similar programs in other Southern California cities - including Los Angeles.

Also at Voice of San Diego, The San Diego Union-Tribune, and LA Times.


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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 04 2017, @07:23PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 04 2017, @07:23PM (#563531)

    It's worse than that. Mdc has admitted repeatedly that the real reason he pretended to be homeless was to get debt collectors off his back. It's the perfect scam.

    1, hide assets in offshore accounts.
    2, hide valuables in storage lockers in foreign countries.
    3, live in a tent, be seen by witnesses.
    4, eat at soup kitchens, be seen by witnesses.
    5, brag online about being homeless, more witnesses.
    6, when debt collectors call, say "sorry I'm homeless you gotta believe me."
    7, use publicly funded social assistance to find housing.
    8, leverage personal brand, get job as code monkey.
    9, retrieve hidden fortunes.
    10, PROFIT.

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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 04 2017, @07:35PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 04 2017, @07:35PM (#563538)

    Fuck the debt collectors, I'm entitled.

  • (Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday September 04 2017, @07:59PM (1 child)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Monday September 04 2017, @07:59PM (#563551) Homepage

    I don't know about MDC but phoney bums are a big problem here in San Diego, in the beachfront communities.

    They're basically rich-kids who in childish bouts of misguided rage got mad at daddy and their upper middle-class Connecticut lifestyles and decided to become drifters. They literally beg for your dollars on the street corner and then get right into their Audis and drive off somewhere else. I actually dig the beach-bum culture but only when real authentic bums are involved -- people living out of beat-up hippie vans who have actually hitchhiked their way across the USA, or perhaps foreign countries, and have cool stories to tell.

    • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 04 2017, @09:09PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 04 2017, @09:09PM (#563575)

      Those aren't rich kids, they're leftover devs from Daybreak Games/SOE.

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by realDonaldTrump on Monday September 04 2017, @08:15PM

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Monday September 04 2017, @08:15PM (#563558) Homepage Journal

    I'll tell you, getting out of debt is an art. I call it The Art of the Comeback, that's what I called my book. In which I tell how I was walking along Fifth Avenue in 1990. With Marla, we were married then. And what do we see on the most important and prestigious shopping street in New York City, a homeless man! Deplorable! And I said, "You see that man? Right now he’s worth $900 million more than me. Right now I’m worth minus $900 million." I owed a little more than that. Because real estate was doing very badly then. And I made some deals with people, I didn't do bankruptcy. Because you can only declare bankruptcy every so often. I came out smelling like a rose. No income tax for many, many years. Terrific! 🇺🇸