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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: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @07:46PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @07:46PM (#567419)

    Well, you've just agreed with OP, then.

    You can't allow these people to do the things that most people are not allowed to do: Shit, sleep, and fuck in the streets. Society has descended into barbarity, because such barbarous activity is specially allowed by this one group of miscreants.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Spook brat on Wednesday September 13 2017, @07:51PM (3 children)

    by Spook brat (775) on Wednesday September 13 2017, @07:51PM (#567423) Journal

    In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.

    — Anatole France

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    • (Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Thursday September 14 2017, @04:18PM (2 children)

      by linkdude64 (5482) on Thursday September 14 2017, @04:18PM (#567879)

      What an ass-backward quote. You know why the law "Don't steal" exists? It's because poor people stole stuff from less-poor people before there was such a thing as law, and people banded together to create it. Don't pretend the system is the problem. Anatole France was a literal communist, and look at how their "equality" served (and fed, and clothed, and sheltered) their people in the fucking gulags.

      • (Score: 2) by Spook brat on Thursday September 14 2017, @08:39PM (1 child)

        by Spook brat (775) on Thursday September 14 2017, @08:39PM (#568072) Journal

        It's ironic that you come to the defense of the OP, who is suggesting a gulag-like solution to homelessness, by pointing out how well gulags don't work.

        Remember that the law also protects the poor from being robbed by the less-poor, or at least it's supposed to. Making homelessness a criminal offense is similar in concept to the idea of a debtor's prison, which the United States soundly rejected as an institution when we broke off from England. Laws that target activities that people would only engage in if they were homeless verge on being predatory, and are certainly discriminatory. Rich people pushing for such laws are engaging in abuse of power.

        It's kind of like a joke I heard about ski slopes: young women go there looking for husbands, and husbands go there looking for young women; the situation isn't as equal as it appears at first glance.

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        • (Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Friday September 15 2017, @12:59AM

          by linkdude64 (5482) on Friday September 15 2017, @12:59AM (#568188)

          I do think something societal needs to be addressed, as he is completely correct in that there is a difference between someone who is homeless, and someone who is temporarily without a home. Many homeless people are quite content being homeless. Free of responsibility, with churches willing to feed them whether they are drunk, high, or not (unlike those Salvation Army bastards who will give them a bed if they're sober.) It's not just lack of money. It's a psychological problem that is now physically endangering others - how is this less serious than the stress that generates school shooters if it generates even more deaths and hospitalizations? Oh, right, because this form of death isn't as easily molded to a politician's political agenda that you rapidly identify with.

          Obviously gulags aren't the solution, obviously things being illegal doesn't prevent them from happening, it is simply the mindless "fuk da system"-tier rhetoric (as Communists/socialists usually spew) which I saw modded up that is causing a conflation between the compassionate and the incompetent to large swathes of people, myself included. "Everything should like, be free for everyone and there shouldn't be violence" is what it all begins to sound like. Feel the "bern" as the United States tears itself apart through taxation, and witness the rise of both Russia and China - you think the US takes advantage of people and abuses its citizens? Just you wait.