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Backwards. FDA will always delay vaccines until too late. In the case of shelter housing in general and in the case specifically of the 209a Monroe Street shelter having COVID vaccines
arrive a month late, having RSV, pneumonia vaccines come Two months later then making elderly and disabled in overcrowded shelter housing with broken toilets blocked access to showers
for months and no ventilation. These shelters will (I'm going to use a double negative here because it makes sense) NEVER NOT going to be grounded zero for infectious disease transmission.
Even when the vaccines arrive WAY LATE, ask any doctor/ health department who gets priority, NOT the shelter folks NOT the homeless, elderly, disabled outside. The delay of vaccines
is not the fault of the shelter contractors, they only control the shelter, overcrowding and non- delivery of hiegene infrastructure (toilets, showers). Ask the NIH/doctor/health department
if it's worth the bother to give vaccines to people who are already chronically ill with pneumonia, bronchitis, whooping cough, RSV, a more deadly flu virus than seen in a decade, and
have almost no way of hiegene matainence in an overcrowded unventilated space. I am absolutely sure doctors will say antibiotics would me more effective at infectious disease transmission
to larger community at this late date. Of course what eventually will happen is all the bugs eventually develope antibiotic resistance. It's a no win situation for the homeless consumers
who can't change their vulnerability or their physical environment or do anything about the lack of toilets and showers. What is within your control: health department could prioritize
homeless for vaccines while shutting down shelters that have high disease and rates. Like I say everyone is sick at the 209a Shelter, it has a kitchen the health department won't certify,
it gets Overcrowded,no ventilation,and hiegene infrastructure breaks down or access is blocked by contractor. Those are the things that you control. Don't Gaslight homeless consumers.
The PTYC could serve 85 people at a time. Has ADA showers toilets. Commercial Kitchen that health department will certify, Moms laundry across the street, handicap parking. Combining
the cost of the building and a fifty year land lease would make the cost of an Urban rest stop/Day Center 12,000 dollars a year or 1000.00 dollars a month. The night by night 209a
Shelter just for the space alone,not including heat or infrastructure maintenance is 2000.00 dollars a month I hear. Do the math. Homeless folks are not a threat to the shoreline
ecology.