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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
(Score: 4, Interesting) by frojack on Wednesday September 13 2017, @10:39PM
Then how can it be eerily reminiscent, fool!!
Germany, and the US had programs to keep homeless off the street in their own countries well before the war. You can walk around in the wilderness in the US and come upon hand built foot stone bridges over streams, camps (similar to army bases of the time), trails, man made fish weirs, entire roads. Half the National Park Service facilities were built this way. And you find their handiwork hundreds of mile from the nearest main camps.
All built by the Civilian Conservation Corps. [wikipedia.org]
My father's brother found the same things in Norway. The Germans had the Todt Organisation - (built the Autobahn 33 to 38). Todt became slave labor only after the war began.
You never earned much in a CCC camp, it was considered a form of national service. But you did get some money to send home, 3 hots and a cot and learned an actual trade.
Some of the US CCC headquarter camps were so big they were used as POW camps once the war started.
The only thing that shut these down was the manpower demands of World War II.
Now the very idea of a government organization getting anyone off the streets is met with shouts of Concentration Camps.
Most of the AirBnBs you accuse the banks of setting up in abandoned homes (hint: its not happening) are actually houses the city ends up tearing down because nobody wants to live in them for ANY price, and squatters [buildium.com] move in and trash the place, turn them into a heroin shooting galleries, or set them on fire.
So Cities make rules to bulldoze these properties. Half of Detroit has been dozed.
You could turn this whole thing around if Banks could only hold repossessed homes for 3 years max after which they become property of the State (definitely not the City). Then the state would provide the house free to any true homeless who can pay next year's taxes, perhaps a tiny rent, and earn full title to the property after 5-10 years of maintaining it and paying taxes. Repossessed houses would suddenly drop to below market value and housing would become easily available again. There isn't a shortage of such properties.
The laws just need to be changed in recognition of the fact that private property has to serve a public purpose. Each owner is merely a caretaker of earth's collective resources. We already have zoning laws. This isn't that far from that. I personally know landlords that are charging WAY WAY below market value simply because they like their renters and don't actually need to make more money unless the taxes get raised.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.