By Kevin Palmer
In America, the coronavirus outbreak highlights why ignoring those with the least will be a curse to those with the most. The least are the homeless.
Almost 200,000 people are considered homeless in the United States. According to the 2019 Georgia Balance of State Continuum of Care Point in Time Homeless Report there were at least 4,193 homeless individuals. “They are double risk. One is a risk to themselves, the other is a risk to society,” Chunhuei Chi, director of the Center for Global Health at Oregon State University in Corvallis, told The Associated Press.
According to conservative talk radio host, Jason Rantz, “Coronavirus can spread in unhygienic environments. And with homeless individuals lacking access to hand sanitizer, let alone showers, soap, and clean clothes, their encampments can very easily become locations for an outbreak. This becomes especially alarming when homeless individuals ride the bus, visit the public library, sleep near business fronts, and use public restrooms.”
Rantz’s health concern for the homeless demonstrates not all conservative radio hosts are calloused Neanderthals like the one in Augusta, Georgia.
