西雅圖真正的災難將來自於

遍布街頭的流浪者！

（也許病毒早已在隨著這些不受關注，不受限製的自由人流浪四方。）

 

有多少人呢？  

（2018年）More than 12,000 people were counted as homeless in Seattle and King County this year, a 4 percent increase over last year.

https://www.kuow.org/stories/here-s-how-seattle-and-washington-compare-to-national-homeless-trends 

 

Tent Cities and Seattle's Growing Homeless Population

http://www.seattlemag.com/article/tent-cities-and-seattles-growing-homeless-population

 

 

 

某些官員的態度： at least one city council member are pretending the homeless population isn’t more at-risk for catching and spreading coronavirus than other populations. This thinking is willfully ignorant and flat-out dangerous.

https://mynorthwest.com/1745106/rantz-seattle-homeless-risk-coronavirus/

 

有人這麽看 ：

Coronavirus threatens 'extraordinarily vulnerable' homeless population

King County's homeless are becoming older and sicker, which leaves them more at risk to the novel virus.

 

 

https://crosscut.com/2020/03/coronavirus-threatens-extraordinarily-vulnerable-homeless-population

 

 

 

當地政府的反應

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/homeless/officials-and-shelters-prepare-for-coronavirus-in-seattle-area-homeless-population-as-illness-brings-more-deaths/

As one emergency measure, King County Executive Dow Constantine said at a Monday news conference that the county would set up modular units to isolate patients who do not have a home address. The county had already bought 14 of these units, once used to house Texas oil workers, for its homelessness response.

In addition to the modular units, King County previously contracted with a firm in Marysville to build dormitory-style buildings to house 72 formerly unsheltered people. These buildings are now being included in the county’s quarantine plan for unhoused people, said Sherry Hamilton, communications director for King County’s Department of Community and Human Services.

The county is also buying a motel for patient isolation, Constantine said, though it’s not intended for homeless patients specifically.

 

所有跟帖： 

• 希望能看到行之有效的措施 -纖風- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/04/2020 postreply 04:49:39

• 這個方麵太讓人頭疼了。 -40er- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/04/2020 postreply 04:56:33

• 有統計這些人更易感冒嗎? 這些人住在露天，或許有抵抗力。武漢也有住下水道的流民。 -FollowNature- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/04/2020 postreply 05:02:00

• 唉，怎麽還把新冠當流感 -fuz- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/04/2020 postreply 05:06:19

• 北京有一天突然增加好多確診病例源於一個不被重視的保潔員 -dudaan- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/04/2020 postreply 09:21:35