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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: 2) by NotSanguine on Thursday September 14 2017, @03:46AM
Back in the early 1980s, when there were an estimated 100,000 (a bit less than 10% of the population of San Diego) homeless people in NYC, Wayne Barrett wrote a feature piece in the Village Voice about the issues facing homeless people.
He began the article by asking a pretty reasonable question: "What do homeless people want?"
He answered his own question (correctly in my view) as follows: "Homes, mostly."
We have the resources in the US to house all of the people who do not have shelter in a way that can allow them to rejoin society and the economy and have a positive impact on all of us.
There are those with mental illness and/or substance abuse problems, yes. What shall we do with them, you might ask? One proposed solution (which sounds suspiciously like original AC's idea) would be to remove those folks from society [wikipedia.org].
Original AC is showing us what he wants us to become.
I'd much rather see us (*gasp*) house the homeless and treat the mentally ill and those with substance abuse issues (those groups overlap significantly). Not only would those steps get rid of most of the stuff original AC finds unpleasant, it would also allow us to re-integrate many people into our society and economy, making things better for everyone.
Problem solved. I'm just waiting on various mayors, governors and Federal officials to call and ask me what they should do. But I won't hold my breath..
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr