The Dept of Homelessness just shared that two guests of MSC South Shelter, which is in my district and the largest shelter in Northern CA, tested positive for COVID-19. This is a disaster, and getting more dangerous by the hour. No more delay. Move people into hotel rooms, NOW.
Predicted, sure, some even started freeing inmates, but that was a reaction to the fact that jails are the perfect "incubator" for the virus, with 40 guys literally stacked up per room.
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Our mass incarceration system, with world record high portions of covid positive patients, are a perfect incubator for this virus. Which is why many public defenders and lawyers are correctly identifying it as a epicenter.
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The word epicenter comes from seismology, it means literally "above the center. When bastatrdized to use for a pandemic, one would still expect it to mean"center". The majority of infections did not come from prisons, not even close. "The" epicenter implies one only. l
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