City opens new shelters
The city will shortly be opening three new homeless shelters as well as new day centres in parks. If this seems like a lot, remember that the homeless now have to be sheltered individually, not bunked in together as they usually are.
CTV looked into how the Douglas Hospital has had to help its patients face the extra stresses of a pandemic, on top of whatever demons they already cope with.
I see completely conflicting advice on wearing a mask if you have to go out. During the 1 pm press conference, quoted here, Horacio Arruda said it couldn’t hurt, but don’t let a mask make you feel invincible, and keep washing your hands.
Current list of confirmed cases by borough and suburb.
qatzelok 23:05 on 2020-03-31 Permalink
Did it really take a global virus pandemic to make us (society, the community) care about homeless people enough to give them proper, private homes?
Maybe we have been sick for a while with a much worse virus than COVID-19.
jeather 13:38 on 2020-04-01 Permalink
Oh, I don’t think this proves suddenly everyone cares about homeless people, it just proves that everyone is scared that if homeless people are around, outside, they will infect others.
(I do hope that this changes our long-term plans for homelessness — giving housing helps, and it’s also the right thing.)
qatzelok 15:59 on 2020-04-01 Permalink
jeather, what I was getting at is that our new generalized precarity might inspire people to give up on the “Culture of Punishment” that we have been living under for centuries. Virtually every minority or person in trouble is punished, as if this can improve them.
jeather 19:38 on 2020-04-01 Permalink
Oh, I get it, I just am more pessimistic about whether we will move in that direction after this is over.