Unhealthy, terrible living conditions, overcrowded, demoralized, vulnerable.... and yet? This issue is so obvious. And I completely forgot about it for such a long time. 1047 homeless people died out of 52,765, in Los Angeles, in 2019. In 2020 in L.A., less than 1000 died. By 2021 the population is estimated at 161,548.
If you try to find out how many how many covid deaths there are in 2021 so far among that population, the figure is mysteriously absent in online articles. It appears to me that the homeless people in Los Angeles have not cooperated with the pandemic death toll very well at all. If you go to L.A now after not being there for a few years, the place swarms with street dwellers like a stirred up ant colony. It is like WW Z without the zombies.
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I've had the same thought. My view is that the homeless are de facto quarantined. If you think about it, you have to realize that the key question is how a homeless person would ever catch the virus. There are two possibilities: (1) from another homeless person, or (2) from a non-homeless person. The first possibility simply begs the question, so the key question is (2): infection from a non-homeless person. Now...how would that happen? What non-homeless people are in common contact with homeless people? Damn few, in terse words. No ordinary person wants contact with homeless people. But it was only ordinary people who went abroad and brought back the virus. They spread it among ordinary people. But no ordinary people want to have contact with the homeless. Thus, de facto quarantine. Plus, they are loaded up with so many drugs anyway, their body chemistry is probably out of whack even for a virus to invade. Makes sense to me. We have plenty of them, and they are seemingly immune.