Homelessness During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Metcalfs—Joni, 57, and Derek, 60—married in August 1983 and raised four children. When Derek lost his job with the federal government, they eventually ended up living in the streets. Recently, they found permanent housing. https://t.co/1PQDw8ijuV
— Smithsonian Magazine (@SmithsonianMag) August 12, 2020
Health Editor’s Note: One of the precautionary tasks of preventing contracting or spreading COVID-19 is careful, thorough hand washing, done before touching your face, after touching anything that is not in your home, after touching surfaces where another person may have touched, etc. Hand washing should be done several times during the day.
Imagine that you do not have the convenience of a sink, running water, or soap in order to carry out this essential task. Or imagine that you are living in a homeless shelter and find that others who live there have tested positive. How can those who test positive be isolated for the mandatory 14 days when shelters are not large enough to accommodate physical distancing in living quarters? In actuality isolation will be impossible to coronavirus will spread through the facility. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused disruptions to Americans who have roofs over their heads…Imagine how much worse it is for the homeless to negotiate the pandemic world we now live in……Carol
Carol graduated from Riverside White Cross School of Nursing in Columbus, Ohio and received her diploma as a registered nurse. She attended Bowling Green State University where she received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History and Literature. She attended the University of Toledo, College of Nursing, and received a Master’s of Nursing Science Degree as an Educator.
She has traveled extensively, is a photographer, and writes on medical issues. Carol has three children RJ, Katherine, and Stephen – one daughter-in-law; Katie – two granddaughters; Isabella Marianna and Zoe Olivia – and one grandson, Alexander Paul. She also shares her life with her husband Gordon Duff, many cats, and two rescues.
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COVID-19 was the pretext for a total reset of the US economy, throwing thousands of small businesses into bankruptcy and tens of millions of Americans out of work. Not only are they facing eviction and homelessness, but they’ve also lost their health insurance. What out-of-work American can afford to pony-up to see a doctor when they’re sick? Most likely they’ll just add to the grim statistics: Drug abuse, alcoholism, and suicide.
It’s so different in Canada. They are beating this thing. They aren’t running around without masks, hitting the bars and the beaches, and having COVID-19 parties like the Trumpsters here in the USA. And, they have socialized health care and a good social safety net.
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