teabag09

The California hepatitis A outbreak is on the verge of reaching statewide epidemic status, as cases have spread through homeless tent cities from San Diego north to Sacramento.
California health officials have reported that at least 569 people have been infected with the hepatitis A liver disease and 17 have died since a San Diego County outbreak was first identified in November. Cases have migrated north to homeless populations in Los Angeles, Santa Cruz, San Francisco and Sacramento over the last 11 months.

Although local and state authorities have tried to underplay the risks and severity of the outbreak, the most recent annual totals for cases of hepatitis A in the United States was 1,390 in 2015, according to the Center for Disease Control (CDC). California only reported 179 cases during the same year.

The highly-contagious hepatitis A outbreak may have taken root because of the City of San Diego’s efforts in the run-up to Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game held at Petco Park in July 2016 to push the homeless, and the rampant drug and prostitution trade among them, out of the downtown tourist venues. Those effort included locking public bathrooms and essentially relocating the homeless to the congested tent city encampments that stretch for blocks east of downtown near freeway onramps.

Another explanation may be the city’s decision to ban plastic bags, which deprived homeless people of an alternative means of disposing of human waste when bathrooms were not available.

The last major hepatitis A outbreak was 900 cases and 8 deaths in Pennsylvania in 2003. The infected suffer flulike symptoms and jaundice, but the disease can progress to death. Since 1998, national hepatitis A incidence rates had been “progressively lower each year” due to the development of a “safe and effective hepatitis A v*****es in 1995–1996.”



California homeless advocates have been successful across the state in forcing cities to accept the homeless living in large tent communities on public property. The advocates refer to anti-homeless ordinances as the modern-day equivalent to post-s***ery Jim Crow and Depression era anti-Okie laws that allowed police to disperse people deemed “undesirable” after dark.

The City of San Diego was forced to sign the Spencer Settlement in 2006, which forbids its Police Department from enforcing the city’s “Illegal Lodging Enforcement Guidelines” between the hours of 9 pm to 5:30 am.

California, with 115,738 homeless, now accounts for about 21 percent of America’s total homeless population. Due to legal settlements against vagrancy laws, about 72.3 percent of California’s homeless are unsheltered, usually living in tent cities.

Randy131 Loc: Florida

It would be interesting to know how much the homeless population increased during the Bush recession, from December of 2007, till December of 2008, and then how much the homeless population increased during the entire 8 years of the Obama Presidency and during his economic recovery, which he declared in June of 2009?

A recession is over when the economy shows two consecutive quarters of positive GDP growth, and since Obama declared it in June of 2009, means that the first two quarters of 2009, from January of 2009, the GDPs were in positive growth, meaning that Obama's entire Presidency was during an economic recovery, that lasted for his next 7 1/2 straight years, to the end of his Presidency and the start of Donald Trump's Presidency, and has become even greater since Donald trump became President.

This would tell you whose policies created the most homeless people during George Bush's 13 month recession, or during Obama's 8 years of economic recovery, which would also prove whose policies are the best for the American people. Does anyone out there have these economic statistical figures?

Another question might be is why does California have the most homeless people ratio of it's population than other states? Could it be because they pay the highest amount of individual welfare payments, and since there is no drug testing for qualification of those welfare benefits, the recipients spend most of those welfare payments on drugs, alcohol consumption, and food, in that order, rather on lodging facilities? Some people believe that drug testing for welfare qualification is mean and undignified, but the results of that policy are quite the opposite, and aids in getting many people off of their drug habit, and actually saving lives.

teabag09

Probably has a lot to do with the mild weather and the welfare pay outs and lax restrictions. Mike

Randy131 Loc: Florida

I agree.

boatbob2

because the homeless,(mostly) ,are too damn lazy to go to work,and,they get the freebies in mexifornia, why work?????????????????