Medieval Diseases Are Infecting California’s Homeless

Medieval Diseases Are Infecting California’s Homeless(theatlantic.com)

24 points by endofcapital 7 years ago | 7 comments

wycs 7 years ago |

California has some of the worst municipal governments in the country. Shockingly poorly governed. Live a year in Singapore. Live a year in San Francisco. Your opinions on many things will change.

Hearing the performative compassion of San Francisco‘s politicians and the results: streets covered in human shit, crazed heroin zombies colonizing them, a pathetic protest culture pushing zoning legislation that extracts rents from everyone; one is reminded of this Kipling poem: http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_copybook.htm

wjossey 7 years ago | |

As someone who lives in LA, I have to agree. Really poor local government structure. Our city council just 10-2 voted to authorize the city attorney to settle a lawsuit which will now restrict the city’s ability to cleanup homeless encampments as well. So, might be getting worse, not better.

I recently moved to Encino, which has its issues but our homeless encampment is hidden down by the dam. When I lived in Beverly Grove, I had people sleeping on my sidewalk, and clusters of people setting up camp in the alleyways 100 yards from my house.

What was remarkable was the volume of trash that accumulated, along with broken glass and hypodermic needles. It was absolutely jaw dropping.

It’s truly not compassionate to let people live on the steets. The city and the state must expand conservatorship and start getting these people the help they need.

yyyymmddhhmmss 7 years ago | | |

It’s not a mistake. The tech industry wants low regulations, so they gut the government. Simple process, really.

marsrover 7 years ago |

I actually saw a YouTube video about this the other day. Apparently rats are running rampant around several California cities due to the amount of garbage and feces that are littering the streets.

I turned to my wife and said that this is how the new bubonic plague is going to start. Low and behold the video then cuts to talking about the medieval diseases mentioned in this article.

As far as I can tell, we don’t have any issues like this in Atlanta. What makes California towns so special? Is it the weather? The policies?

Whatever it is, it’s another reason I don’t want to live there.

loriverkutya 7 years ago | |

The bubonic plague was not caused by the rats.

wjossey 7 years ago |

Dr Drew Pinsky (yes, not just a “loveline doctor”) was calling this out over a year ago. One of his children contracted typhus prior to the big outbreak last year, which led him to talk more about the issue.

https://drdrew.com/2018/dr-drew-warns-plague-threat-los-ange...