https://www.mass.gov/news/baker-polito-administration-announces-field-medical-station-details-new-support-for-health
Are new, temporary shelters for these victims being created or planned? If not, what is the plan? To arrest all of the abusers and keep them in jail until the coronavirus has run its course? I can tell you right now that even if that weren't a violation of the abusers' rights, most of those victims aren't going to press charges, especially if they know their attackers and even more so if they need their attackers' unemployment benefits. Even fewer are going to press charges since jail is a closed environment where social distancing is impossible and the virus is an issue.
Having someone to talk to when you're being beaten and/or raped every day for months is better than nothing, but if there are no plans to provide additional, temporary shelter for victims then it's an exercise in futility.
Also, is someone expecting the police to run all over the state answering 9-1-1 calls 24/7 when nobody is going to press charges and there's nowhere for the abusers to go even if their victims do press charges? Where are the abusers going to go? The homeless shelters, which the state is trying to figure out how to evacuate?
What about victims who are brought to the hospitals, thus exposed to the coronavirus?
