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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday September 13 2017, @04:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the crappy-job dept.

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


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  • (Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @05:45PM (10 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @05:45PM (#567325)

    ... by property rights. The enforcement of well-defined property rights how these things can be handled.

    Let's say you're a Catholic; go ahead and get together with your Church to create an homelessness institution to whom the state can transfer custodial control of the indigents, rather than locking them up with other kinds of criminals in the general prison system, etc. They just cannot be left milling about, sleeping, fucking, bleeding, and shitting on other people's property (including "public" property). There is no place for that in a civilized society; it must be dealt with.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Spook brat on Wednesday September 13 2017, @06:30PM (6 children)

    by Spook brat (775) on Wednesday September 13 2017, @06:30PM (#567363) Journal

    They just cannot be left milling about, sleeping, fucking, bleeding, and shitting on other people's property (including "public" property). There is no place for that in a civilized society; it must be dealt with.

    There needs to be a place for them, because many of them will not accept a white picket fence lifestyle. You are assuming that these people don't live in houses or apartments because they lack the resources to do so; in many cases they choose not to, preferring the transient lifestyle instead.

    A good fraction of the homeless in the United States are honorably discharged veterans of the U.S. armed forces. After the training they go through and the hardships of battle some fraction of them are no longer willing to return to the lifestyle you or I would consider normal. They deserve a better welcome home than a sign that says "get off my lawn" and a concentration camp. These are the people who stood in harm's way so that you can have the "civilized society" you cherish so much, and now we deem them unfit to return to it? We should be ashamed of ourselves as a nation.

    I'm all for finding the homeless help. We need to make sure the help we give is the help they need, not the help you would need; it is a very different set of needs. Free public toilets and easy access to clean water at public locations would be a much bigger help to the willful transients than forced housing would.

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    • (Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @06:35PM (4 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @06:35PM (#567367)

      Note the very top comment: "Homeless people are not just normal people on hard times".

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @07:59PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @07:59PM (#567429)

        You sure are a master of circular logic.

        PS: that isn't something to be proud of

      • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Spook brat on Wednesday September 13 2017, @08:05PM (2 children)

        by Spook brat (775) on Wednesday September 13 2017, @08:05PM (#567431) Journal

        Note the very top comment: "Homeless people are not just normal people on hard times".

        Agreed on the premise, disagreed on the conclusion.

        You are advocating rejecting them from society, rather than helping society adjust to their presence. You have said repeatedly that they have no place in society, I say we need to make a place for them. Giving them a label that marks them as outsiders/"other" serves only to bring us closer to the atrocities committed in WWII-era Germany, it does not solve our problem.

        These homeless are US, in some cases members of this very website community. Show the homeless among us the sympathy you'd hope for if you were in their place, please.

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        • (Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @08:09PM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @08:09PM (#567436)

          ... I wouldn't be fucking around on SoylentNews, and I wouldn't be shitting in the streets.

          • (Score: 2) by Spook brat on Thursday September 14 2017, @08:05PM

            by Spook brat (775) on Thursday September 14 2017, @08:05PM (#568057) Journal

            ... I wouldn't be fucking around on SoylentNews, and I wouldn't be shitting in the streets.

            What would you be doing, then? Be specific, please. Given the situation that you are (a) homeless, (b) needing to defecate, (c) alone on the street after business hours, what action would you take?
            Answer a second time, please, with the added assumption that you are now ill, and are suffering from diarrhea. Because people sometimes get ill when living on the street.

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    • (Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @08:58PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @08:58PM (#567458)

      As a veteran who was homeless briefly let me share something:

      1) Most homeless people are NOT veterans. There are many more fakers than actual veterans
      2) There are a lot of good programs to combat veteran homelessness but the people who need them most typically don't even know they exist
      3) Most of the people who are homeless do not want help they're either insane or want to use drugs
      4) Don't believe anything a homeless person tells you ever.
      5) Don't go near other homeless people if you're homeless. They are dangerous and stupid. Also they greatly increase your chance of getting arrested
      6) There are good places to be homeless but there are no drugs or other homeless people there.

      So there you go straight from the mouth of a homeless veteran. My opinions of the homeless were much better until I met actual homeless people.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @09:01PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @09:01PM (#567462)

    Welcome to the tragedy of the commons.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @11:02PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @11:02PM (#567520)

      Seems more like a tragedy of the lack of a commons.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 14 2017, @12:01AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 14 2017, @12:01AM (#567537)

        You can't be serious, can you? Christ. We're doomed!