Covid situation is dire among homeless
The Covid situation is getting bad among the homeless and I’m inclined to ask why the public health folks didn’t see this coming.
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Kate
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Chris 20:16 on 2021-01-03 Permalink
Why/how do you conclude they didn’t see it coming?
Kate 16:06 on 2021-01-04 Permalink
Chris, please read this Ricochet piece (also linked above). In short: the authorities have to know that the homeless have, for starters, nowhere to go to self-isolate. Many can’t handle the requirements of isolation because of drug or alcohol addictions or because they have deficits making it difficult for them to get a handle on what they need to do, or some combination of the two.
This is not news, but public health seems to be scrambling after the problem rather than planning ahead in the full knowledge that this part of the populace needs to be looked after. Now, whether that’s the fault of the health people, or because looking after the homeless is expensive and they never get enough funding from the government in time to do what’s needed, I don’t know, but I suspect the latter is a big factor.
I think in retrospect the fumbling of all the pandemic measures will be seen as a tug of war between science and politics, between the medical folks seeing what needs to be done and the politicians wavering over making the necessary hard decisions. This issue with the homeless is only one aspect of that tug of war.