[JustAnotherFan]

Can't recall the details, but some state or local officials were discussing moving homeless people into hotels.  I'm not sure if that was prophylactic or when they get sick and need to be quarantined.

This is where the lack of testing is going to seriously hurt.  The disease could spread through homeless camps like crazy before anyone notices.  In an ideal world, regular surveillance would be going on in these populations.

Right. Also in an ideal world we would have been working to ensure everyone had a home and sanitation long before a pandemic hit. Instead we had politicians running public campaigns to pass laws to criminalize homelessness or to push the problem down the road. This pandemic has the potential to open our collective eyes to all of the harm that we do to our society by throwing people away.

[JustAnotherFan]

Can't recall the details, but some state or local officials were discussing moving homeless people into hotels.  I'm not sure if that was prophylactic or when they get sick and need to be quarantined.

This is where the lack of testing is going to seriously hurt.  The disease could spread through homeless camps like crazy before anyone notices.  In an ideal world, regular surveillance would be going on in these populations.

Right. Also in an ideal world we would have been working to ensure everyone had a home and sanitation long before a pandemic hit. Instead we had politicians running public campaigns to pass laws to criminalize homelessness or to push the problem down the road. This pandemic has the potential to open our collective eyes to all of the harm that we do to our society by throwing people away.