‘Hoops for the Homeless,’ Urges Letter to the Editor
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Dear Community Members
As I was listening to Gov. Newsom’s address on Monday, March 30th, he was addressing his homeless solutions. I see a really good solution that could make every single one of us in Humboldt, much much safer during this pandemic.
HOOPS for the HOMELESS- we put up long grow-style hoops, like FIELD HOSPITALS, with tents inside. Tents would be 6-10ft apart. The ideal spot for this is on the land behind the site of the “new” Hospital, Sprowel Creek Rd, [in Garberville] by the freeway. It’s close to services and supplies.
No matter What SAFEGUARDS we observe, if we don’t address RADICAL SAFEGUARDS for the homeless, we won’t be safe. We all know this is true! People that live in town, Garberville & Redway, and those of you who still get mail& groceries here, will also be way more at risk if we ignore a simple, practical solution.Flood your Hospital Board, Planning Dept., SUPERVISORS with calls, emails & letters! Let’s find out who’s willing to show LEADERSHIP in this time!
Thank you,
Mrs. Mark Baker
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Put em in hotel rooms. Get em all. Then if new homeless show up, run em off [edit] Care for “our” homeless and get through this all as one community. Get the fuckin orange baboon to pay for it. The hotels are going to be used for hospital overflow soon so the system will be in place, paid for by the trillions coming down the pike.
I love the Hoops for Homeless idea, just think, cover Rio Dell south to the county line with hoop houses, Each one could house a couple of people( test them for the Wuhan first) They could live in the first 10′ then grow in the next 90′. Then put them to work growing dope, every 3-4 months pull off a harvest and the $$$$ goes to the homeless fund! Just think, no more guys busting out your car window to get dope money, no more encampments with piles upon piles of clothes,tarps,needles ( you have to put sharps collection in the hoop houses) Human crap , dog crap.
It would give them a sense of a contributing member of society, Hell ,it might take care of the “Mental health”issue at the same time. Another plus is that we wouldn’t have to see all those poor little dogs shivering in the rain as the tweeks drag them around with them, The puppies could be curled up in a nice dry corner of the hoop house.
So let’s get this show on the road, All you dope growers need to pony up some of those hoop houses that you no longer need and some seedlings and Make America Great AGAIN!
🕯🌳First of all it’s the Corcoran Virus 19 and your racism is showing. I will agree there are alot of vacant houses and other properties in Humboldt that could be converted for homeless use. Putting a tent inside a another tent is like creating a petrey dish creating an atmosphere for the virus to multiple. 🖖🐸🕯
I didn’t see one word of “racism” willi? Where?
I’m assuming he’s upset that he called it the “Wuhan”. For some reasons liberals think it’s racist to say it came from China. But it’s not to racist to call the flu of 1918 the Spanish Flu. Their logic rarely makes sense but I do find humor in it.
🕯🌳Define liberals? I had the Hong Kong flu in the 70’s. So please clarify?🕯🖖🐸 There all of the Corona strain. 🚑
Mike, the “Spanish Flu” didn’t start in Spain. It was named such because they were the first counrty to say this is a pandemic. Now, most people call it the Flu of 1918. (I believe Boston was the first city to have a flu issue in 1918.) Calling this the Wuhan Flu is rasist.
So it’s not racist to call it the Spanish flu when it didn’t originate from that country, but it is racist to call it the wuhan flu when it did originate from that region? Ironically enough there is a significant chance that the Spanish flu started in Asia. So it should be racist to call it the Spanish flu and not the Asian flu of 1918.
Huh?????
I love it fetus ,problem solved.
🕯🌳Why do you talk to yourself and make it look like two different people. You use to pull the same trick on another blog. 🖖We can smell a “not my potus ” fan fan a mile away. Kind of like you. 🕯🐸
I only am on kym kemp willi. I don’t follow blogs. I don’t have Facebook.i was under government Cheese, other than that, I have no fukn idea what your talking about, neither do most though.
My dad lived in a hoop house back in the 70’s. He said “you can build a house that will get you through the winter in a couple of hours”. Its a great idea.
Every grower knows how to create proper air flow in a hoop house. But maybe individual tents , open air, would be better. Save the hoops for other purposes, such as a field station, where only 2-3 ppl were inside, keeping basic supplies together , or possibly even making basic food to take out. Maybe even have a small staff of national guards to keep it efficiently running? Not for policing, just for having someone who knows these skills…I don’t like calling this a war, but that’s what the ppl in charge are calling it, so…lets make it safer, at least.
Hopefully this solution would appeal to the homeless, but self isolating is what we all need to do, appealing or not.
“Every grower knows how to create proper air flow in a hoop house. ‘
Of course they dont. Half the hoops I see have inadequate airflow.
Curious, how many homeless have been infected or hospitalized ?
What is interesting is the idea that mentally ill people can’t be held against their will unless it is proven they are a danger to themselves or others (by which the law means serious bodily injury) while people can be held against their will for violating a stay at home order without requirement to establish they are a danger to anyone at all. Illegal drug sellers, who certainly are endangering others routinely, are not taken into custody lest they get the virus.
Yep. Who said homeless want to be housed? From what I hear on the streets,it infringes on there freedoms! What they really want is more laws passed to enable “their “ behavior, plain n simple. Free needles, cheap drugs, unpunishable thievery laws and places to defecate and throw there trash. That’s what they want…… “You can give a homeless man a fish and he will eat for a day, buy a homeless man a fishing pole and he will trade it for drugs.”
11% of those that can access any test?
🕯🌳May sound funny but a Mash type setup were they all like to hang out(by or behind the Mall) run by the National Guard would be great. 🖖🐸🕯
So house homeless but not restain their movements? In response to pandemic? Really? What would that do but offer a place for those without self control to spread disease, especially among themselves. Such ideas are always predicated on the objects of such attention being willing to cooperate when every bit of history points out that lack of ability or desire to cooperate is the problem in the first place.
The minute the government takes any such action, it would have obligated itself to minimum standards of facilities, health care, policing, etc. Or law suits and accompanying public outrage would follow.
“No matter What SAFEGUARDS we observe, if we don’t address RADICAL SAFEGUARDS for the homeless, we won’t be safe.”
I’m just not sure I agree with this. Of course the homeless need help at this time, and that can only make us all safer, but I question the degree of contact between the homeless and the housed.
They certainly have the capacity to take way more than average resources at a hospital. It’s hard enough to deal with the mentally ill or drug addicted without adding contagion to the mix.
The trouble with trying to help is that the only help that is mostly acceptable is free handouts with no restrictions on behavior so that, after help is provided, the same number of people fill the same spaces anyway. It is not a problem to be solved without compulsion. Only compulsion is not permissible.
Well, I think they should just use the old school building, and the space out behind it, as a permanent homeless campground, as well as the courtyard at the dilapidated old hospital…
There’s never gonna be a new hospital there, anyway, and the old one is only about 12% of a hospital, as it is…
Homeless Heaven, a much better use for the SHCHD space… Take it up with the JPH Board, right away!
Why so negative, ex-employee? You should focus your energy inward to understand your failed life better.
Well, let’s talk about the failed life of SHCHD instead… Abusive HR folks, nasty and incompetent Admin, a parade of employees in and out, useless managers and mainly “mid-level” providers, nasty staff members and the most provincially backwards mess of a healthcare operation, almost anywhere in California!
Also failing, the approach to “Privileged to serve”, since SHCHD only serves itself, and the approach to policy and procedure, since SHCHD can’t seem to follow it’s own policies and procedures, and, the consistent failure to deliver critically needed services according to the wishes of the population of the district: In short, the summary failure of the Southern Humboldt Healthcare District…
So actually, the spaces currently used by SHCHD would be better utilized, by designating them a “Homeless Camp”, and, the folks in the camp could then be patients of the district! Or should I say, the ONLY patients of the district, since nobody else ever goes there for services, or gives a damn about SHCHD…
I see Estelle is getting herself out there on virus related formats.
If Bushnell were really serious about running/winning she should get herself
out there now also, show what SHE has in a crisis?
🤣😂🤣. Ironically Scavenger’ s won’t even touch dead tweekers. They think it’s poisoned meat.