San Francisco has an estimated homeless population of over 10,000. If you try looking up SF homeless deaths due to COVID-19, you'll find a whole lot of nothing. My guess is that the city is trying to hide the fact that almost all 10k homeless have contracted the virus and homeless deaths are in the single digits.
They are young, probably.
They live in wind. Wind may blow it away. It may not transmit well in open places, open air. Supposedly it does, within six feet. But it may not. It may transmit in closed, indoor spaces. I am no expert and do not know.
Their being young would keep their death rate down.
But their living in wind would keep their EXPOSURE down.
I live in San Francisco so I can safely say that many are definitely not young. Most that I see seem to be in their 50s although maybe they're 30-40s and just look weathered.
As for the wind, this article is in reference to the population of homeless that are in homeless shelters provided by various Christian charities as well as city run shelters.
Would you say that the rates of exposure and of death from this virus are pretty much the same whether the person is homeless or not? That being homeless makes no difference? I am just asking. I don't know.
Because they don't have homes to self isolate in. If there's no difference, that doesn't make self isolating look useful.
Of course self isolating isn't useful. It only weakens one's immune system and reduces his intake of vitamin D from Sunlight. The 'rona, like every virus, is not going away, so when one returns from his shell, he is just more likely to contract it and more likely to not be able to fight it off as effectively.
Spez: You didn't think they were trying to protect you when they said to self isolate did you? Even with their bullshit numbers, that was to prevent overcrouding in hospitals (remember)?
Ah, sorry -- government knows best, this is all and only for your safety. I must crush and restrict and control you too keep you 'safe' from my punishment
San Francisco has an estimated homeless population of over 10,000. If you try looking up SF homeless deaths due to COVID-19, you'll find a whole lot of nothing. My guess is that the city is trying to hide the fact that almost all 10k homeless have contracted the virus and homeless deaths are in the single digits.
They are young, probably. They live in wind. Wind may blow it away. It may not transmit well in open places, open air. Supposedly it does, within six feet. But it may not. It may transmit in closed, indoor spaces. I am no expert and do not know.
Their being young would keep their death rate down. But their living in wind would keep their EXPOSURE down.
I live in San Francisco so I can safely say that many are definitely not young. Most that I see seem to be in their 50s although maybe they're 30-40s and just look weathered.
As for the wind, this article is in reference to the population of homeless that are in homeless shelters provided by various Christian charities as well as city run shelters.
As for hard numbers on exposure rates, I don't have any for San Francisco, but there was testing done last month in Boston which revealed that 36% of homeless tested had contracted COVID-19. https://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2020/04/14/coronavirus-boston-homeless-testing
Even if just 1/3 of San Francisco's homeless had the disease, it would likely put the fatality rate right around that of the common cold.
Edit: Total number of SF COVID deaths as of May 4th is 29
Would you say that the rates of exposure and of death from this virus are pretty much the same whether the person is homeless or not? That being homeless makes no difference? I am just asking. I don't know.
Because they don't have homes to self isolate in. If there's no difference, that doesn't make self isolating look useful.
Of course self isolating isn't useful. It only weakens one's immune system and reduces his intake of vitamin D from Sunlight. The 'rona, like every virus, is not going away, so when one returns from his shell, he is just more likely to contract it and more likely to not be able to fight it off as effectively.
Spez: You didn't think they were trying to protect you when they said to self isolate did you? Even with their bullshit numbers, that was to prevent overcrouding in hospitals (remember)?
66% of San Francisco homeless (More now) already have covid antibodies
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6917e1.htm
Ah, sorry -- government knows best, this is all and only for your safety. I must crush and restrict and control you too keep you 'safe' from my punishment
If you're living in a camp or going from shelter to shelter you've basically demonstrated that for whatever reason you can't make good life decisions.
Mandating testing for a communicable disease seems like the least intrusive thing we could do.
I think they don’t want them tested because they would have to pay to house them if they are infected.
no hidden agenda here.
reminder that 3 weeks ago cdc tested a boston homeless shelter, 50% got the virus, 0 showed symptom.
https://www.wftv.com/news/trending/coronavirus-cdc-reviewing-stunning-universal-testing-results-boston-homeless-shelter/ZADQ45HCAZEVJAZA3OTCUR7M6M/