The Pine Street Inn's Twitter has yet to mention these statistics. It is advertising job openings without informing the public of the danger levels.
To serve its own needs, the Pine Street Inn is luring uneducated, unskilled people to apply to work in these environments. It has very low standards for hiring and will not hesitate to allow applicants to assume that "all precautions have been taken" means that it is low risk to work at Pine Street Inn shelters during this epidemic.
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Governor Baker is not a bad guy, but people who don't personally know these environments do not understand. It's not possible to maintain social distance in homeless shelters.
I don't recall Lyndia Downie saying "It is impossible to maintain social distance at Pine Street Inn or any homeless shelters. This needs to be treated as an emergency evacuation situation for every homeless shelter in the state and probably in the country." Since she is the President and CEO of the Pine Street Inn, and the Pine Street Inn is the most well-known, most funded and most praised homeless services provider in Massachusetts, that's what she should have said to make it clear to everyone.
She's not the only one.
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Please recognize that this is how organizations that provide services to the homeless operate. They do not say "Our facilities and services are totally inadequate, and it's no better anywhere else." The euphemisms, generalizations and feel-good stories have continued even as the ravages of this epidemic among the homeless have begun.
You know why? Because if thousands of homeless people die, only other homeless people and some of the providers who worked with them will grieve them or even notice.
Ingratitude was never fueling my anger. Ingratitude is not the problem.
