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2020-04-25 -Short Attention Span Theater-

NYC struggles with growing homeless population amid coronavirus crisis

[FoxNews] As the nation obeys orders to stay home amid the coronavirus crisis, it’s an impossible feat for the country’s homeless population. In New York City, more than 78,000 people, including children, are homeless.

“You have doctors and health professionals saying to stay home. You can’t do that. You can’t protect yourself,” said Giselle Routhier, the Coalition for the Homeless policy director. The New York City Department of Homeless Services is tracking more than 650 COVID-19 cases with 51 deaths so far.

To slow the spread, the city will move people into hotels starting with at-risk seniors and single adults to improve social distancing.

“We have had Bowery Mission Guests who have been in our setting, become ill, gone to the hospital and now gone into a hotel. Now we actually have direct access to the hotel rooms this week for the first time, which will help keep our space safe and healthy,” said James Winans, the Bowery Mission's interim CEO.

The city is reportedly working to make 2,500 rooms available but organizations like #HomelessCantStayHome say it’s not enough. As many New Yorkers steer clear of the subway, the homeless are not. The Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) says the city should handle the growing number of people living in the cars during the pandemic.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 A high risk group, ought to be dropping like flies; herd immunity & the ones who could die of CV already did , maybe of an earlier variant?

Posted by Glenmore 2020-04-25 00:45|| 2020-04-25 00:45|| Front Page Top

#2 Neh, the smell enforces social distancing.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-25 03:43|| 2020-04-25 03:43|| Front Page Top

#3 Why no spike in homeless deaths in SF and LA during Jan.-Feb, when those cities were taking in and circulating literally thousands of travelers, every day, on direct flights from Wuhan and half a dozen other Chinese cities?

Posted by Lex 2020-04-25 03:53|| 2020-04-25 03:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Homeless are outside in the 'fresh' air.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-25 04:14|| 2020-04-25 04:14|| Front Page Top

#5 Their poop kills the virus?

Posted by Lex 2020-04-25 04:20|| 2020-04-25 04:20|| Front Page Top

#6 You ever notice that all those medical experiments with mice involve rodents that have been inbreed for many generations in controlled laboratories and not those big ugly urban f'ers that require a .357 to slow down? Just saying.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-04-25 07:34|| 2020-04-25 07:34|| Front Page Top

#7 If the homeless have really moved into the subways I expect the rate of infection and death to skyrocket. The whole NYC/NJ metroplex is a petri dish with the vacuum tubes of the Mass transit system pumping the virus around constantly.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2020-04-25 11:12|| 2020-04-25 11:12|| Front Page Top

#8 Dr. Calhoun's experiments show what happens. Watch some videos of that time and the overcrowding gets very ugly.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2020-04-25 11:47|| 2020-04-25 11:47|| Front Page Top

#9 #6 That's because the purpose is different from clinical trials.
Clinical Trials: is it efficient & safe to use on general human population?
Animal experiments: what does it do? And for this you need a uniform population.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-25 11:58|| 2020-04-25 11:58|| Front Page Top

#10 ‘They are transporting the virus’: New York City subway conductors say cars have turned into homeless shelters as riders with no face masks use shoes as pillows while leaving behind feces, urine, and piles of trash

Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-25 12:18|| 2020-04-25 12:18|| Front Page Top

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