How can the government and the media not be ashamed in the first place?

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Article:

https://www.wbur.org/radioboston/2020/03/26/homeless-coronavirus-pandemic


Let's say, for the sake of argument, that no homeless people die from the coronavirus.  It is already a given that there are going to be fatalities, but let's say for the sake of argument that there won't be.

After however many weeks or months of this situation, with every support service not only for the homeless but for the general population strained past capacity every day, with the ranks of the homeless surging during or for months or years after the virus crisis, what then? Are all of the elderly and disabled homeless people going to remain homeless, just the way they were before this crisis?

Homelessness is already a crisis every day for everyone who is homeless.  The rest of the public doesn't think about that unless it is inconvenienced by homeless people in some way.


Here's another picture from the article:

Maybe Ms. Downie is too timid to stick it to the politicians and other powerful people with access to large sums of money and other resources who don't understand homelessness and who think of homeless people as an irredeemable subspecies whose problems are too unattractive to address, even though many of those problems, such as addiction, domestic and sexual violence and illiteracy are no different from the problems of average male sports stars and other famous people and the people whom they abuse.

Readers can think about whether or not they'd like to sleep in those beds year after year, which homeless people do because there's so little motion through the system.

That picture was taken in the 3rd-floor dormitory of the women's shelter at the Pine Street Inn.  There's a 2nd-floor dorm and a 3rd-floor dorm.  No homeless people are allowed there from 6:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. every day; they have to be in the lobby, sitting at tables where everyone is inches away from everyone else.

That's the far corner of the area shown in the picture.  Usually, there are some bunk beds there for which the top bunks are right next to each other, which is a particularly uncomfortable situation even when there's no virus pandemic.  Most people sleep head to foot from the person in the other bunk when they have to sleep in those beds.  It kind've looks like the shelter hasn't moved those extra close beds away from each other yet.

Incidentally, that's also the corner where the outside of the building has had Apple billboards for several years.  I have mentioned those billboards before, how they block all the sunlight for women in semi-permanent housing in that corner on the 4th floor, how the spotlights that illuminate them for drivers on the highway at night shine directly into the faces of homeless women trying to sleep, how Apple put ad after ad promoting sexual crime on those billboards, from voyeurism that was already (and continues to be) criminally victimizing homeless people in the shelter to child molestation even though there are preschools and elementary schools within walking distance of the Pine Street Inn, whose men's side shelters a high percentage of sex offenders.


Videos that I published at YouTube:

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Since Apple has had publicity for years from those billboards, why doesn't it donate a few millions dollars now to ease the congestion and save some lives?

Apple can also stop hacking my phone.  Apple has some nerve, pretending that it cares about privacy.