The liberal paradise of Los Angeles has “102,955 homeless people — nearly double what government officials had previously reported.”
And “skid row” is absolutely FILTHY.
Yeeeah. That’s the face of “compassionate” liberal policies.
Now the people who run the joint are ABSOLUTELY SHOCKED that their city is reporting epidemic levels of typhus fever.
You know who’s NOT shocked? Anyone with eyes.
According to NBC News:
LOS ANGELES — Health officials on Friday reported a typhus outbreak in Los Angeles County and say it has reached “epidemic levels” in the city of Pasadena.
Yum…
Twenty cases have been reported in Pasadena, mostly in the last two months, health officials told NBC News, noting that a normal year would typically only see five infections. The city of Long Beach, California, has 12 cases so far in 2018 — double the normal annual number, said Emily Holman, the city’s infectious disease response coordinator.
The number of cases in the rest of the county since July is nine, which counts as an “outbreak,” Los Angeles County Department of Public Health officials said in a statement. Pasadena and Long Beach have their own health departments even though they exist within the county.
So, with that… “The Pasadena Public Health Department is reporting epidemic levels of typhus fever this year.”
Of course, they’re blaming “fleas” as the official source of the outbreak. And the weather.
“Infection happens when the feces from infected fleas are rubbed into cuts or scrapes in the skin or rubbed into the eyes,” the county health department states on its website.
Health officials in Pasadena are blaming the outbreak on a warm summer and fall and human interaction with animals in neighborhoods that have an “interface” with wildlife in canyons and the Angeles National Forest. They say the disease has nothing to do with homelessness in their high-income city.
HEEEERE’S THE THING.
The people infected haven’t been hanging out in CANYONS and FORESTS.
THEY’VE ALL BEEN HANGING OUT DOWNTOWN.
Some experts, however, say the true culprit is the inhumane conditions the county’s expanding homeless population lives in.
“All of the cases have a history of living or working in the downtown Los Angeles area,” a county health spokeswoman said via email.
DING DING DING.
Something about “canyon flees” isn’t really adding up anymore, is it?
Andy Bales, the CEO of the Union Rescue Mission, which has nearly 1,400 beds for those fleeing or avoiding downtown’s Dickensian streets, said, “The conditions on Skid Row are ripe for even more serious issues than this.”
In 2014, Bales had a leg amputated after he was exposed to flesh-eating bacteria downtown.
But yeah… this totally has nothing to do with the filth littering the streets. It’s all that forest camping. Or something
Bales noted, “There are lots of rats on Skid Row, and there are lots of dogs that belong to homeless people.”
Ergo: Flees.
As long as the libs that run the city keep pretending this is happening because of hot forests…. it’ll continue to spread. Enjoy the Typhus, LA.