Drug addicts alcoholics and the homeless

[Riders]

This may be a weird question but with shelter in place orders, how are the homeless doing? they have no choice but to around other people, they sleep in the same places as other homeless and take care of each other?

For that matter what about drug addicts and alcoholics on the street? Many women sell themselves to buy drugs. Most men are not going to pay for sex with a stranger right now. If they can not sell stuff steal and turn tricks, will many of them die from withdrawal?

They live in such a way that they help each other shoot up and get to dealers houses etc. I would think this is a disaster for them.

But What about the massage parlors and escort businesses, I hear they have all closed down too. Are the homeless shelters running out of places yo put people. They are usually overcrowded with people 3 or 4 in one room or a bunch of folks on cots. They have to share the same shore, they can't really practice social distancing there. Has anyone heard from the shelters on how they are doing?

If this thing starts spreading through homeless and drug addicts, we are headed for some crazy stuff? Any opinions?

 

[Spirit of Light]

I am sure those who run the homeless shelters are doing their best to make people safe. And those who are in need of help because they are homeless do need someplace to go. so the shelters are better than nothing.

 

[The Hammer]

This may be a weird question but with shelter in place orders, how are the homeless doing? they have no choice but to around other people, they sleep in the same places as other homeless and take care of each other?

For that matter what about drug addicts and alcoholics on the street? Many women sell themselves to buy drugs. Most men are not going to pay for sex with a stranger right now. If they can not sell stuff steal and turn tricks, will many of them die from withdrawal?

They live in such a way that they help each other shoot up and get to dealers houses etc. I would think this is a disaster for them.

But What about the massage parlors and escort businesses, I hear they have all closed down too. Are the homeless shelters running out of places yo put people. They are usually overcrowded with people 3 or 4 in one room or a bunch of folks on cots. They have to share the same shore, they can't really practice social distancing there. Has anyone heard from the shelters on how they are doing?

If this thing starts spreading through homeless and drug addicts, we are headed for some crazy stuff? Any opinions?

Here in WA, that is exactly what is happening. The homeless are getting sick, and some are dying in the streets. Many of the shelters up here are closed due to social distancing measures.

 

[Mindmaster]

I am sure those who run the homeless shelters are doing their best to make people safe. And those who are in need of help because they are homeless do need someplace to go. so the shelters are better than nothing.

If I were homeless the last place I'd want to be is a homeless shelter. Literally, just a big virus incubation tank.

 

[Sunstone]

@Riders, going to a homeless shelter risks your health even in the best of times because something is always going around. If it's not one disease, it's another. But right now, it must be several times worse, given both how infectious and how deadly this virus is.

 

[sun rise]

Homelessness is a disgrace. Families too often become homeless because they can't afford housing or for other reasons. Even the mentally ill and the addicted deserve better than to be discarded by society.

 

[Howard Is]

I am sure those who run the homeless shelters are doing their best to make people safe. And those who are in need of help because they are homeless do need someplace to go. so the shelters are better than nothing.

Generally speaking, there are always way more homeless people than there are beds for them.
That is certainly true where I live.

 

[dybmh]

This may be a weird question but with shelter in place orders, how are the homeless doing? they have no choice but to around other people, they sleep in the same places as other homeless and take care of each other?

Yesterday, the city of Portland in a news conference reported that outreach is being done in Homeless camps encouraging groups who are currently together to stay together. Community centers and an abandoned minimum security jail are also being converted to shelters.

 

[Riders]

So the Dallas mayor made an announcement about the jails tonight. He said 4 inmates in Dallas gave come down with it. They have a prison hospital they said. He said they do keep them in separate jails so this is 6 feet apart or more. But they do socialize and have been told when they are out of the jail they just have to go by social restrictions.

He said they ere putting another place and I can't remember if it's a new jail or prison hospital that going up on top of the Dallas court building.

It still does not solve the problem of drug addicts and alcoholics living on the street. They will still steal to survive and try to prostitute and not to go into the homeless shelters. They cant bring their alcohol or drugs in there.