Coronavirus: Hotel housing for rough sleepers – but how do B&B users self-isolate?
Endangered: People who sleep on the streets are more likely to catch coronavirus, and more likely to have respiratory conditions that make them vulnerable to serious harm if they do catch it.
This may strike fools as foolish but the wise will understand.
People who live on the streets are as likely to catch the coronavirus as anybody – more so, as they have no way of isolating themselves and the virus can be airborne.
They are more likely to have underlying health conditions including respiratory diseases, which could make the effect of coronavirus on them far more serious.
And if they remain on the streets, they are equally likely to transmit the virus to many more people.
Soup kitchens and day centres have been closing with little or no warning.
So the Mayor of London’s office is to be applauded for booking rooms with the Intercontinental Hotels Group to ensure that homeless people have space to self-isolate.
The Big Issue has taken its vendors off the streets; supporters will be asked to provide funding online for the duration of the crisis.
But there are concerns over families who have been placed in temporary accommodation like bed & breakfast establishments by councils that could not find permanent homes for them.
That’s a fault of Tory governments, of course; council houses have been sold off without enough cash being provided for replacements to be built.
And Tory policies are likely to have put people in need of accommodation in the first place – because of the Bedroom Tax or wage depression, or other policies that clamp down on the vulnerable.
So again we see that Tory short-sightedness has endangered people.
Source: Coronavirus UK: Rough sleepers will be housed in central London hotels | Metro News
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