September 8, 2011
16. Newblog2011: 09/08/11 The Boston Public Health Commission Shelters
The conditions at the shelters run by the Boston Public Health Commission CANNOT be allowed to continue. Last night, I stayed at the shelter in Quincy. There weren't enough blankets and pillows for every person there to have one of each, or one of either.
That's just the beginning of it. G-d only knows how old the mattresses are (No Code--I can't avoid talking about the mattresses at the Boston Public Health Commision shelters anymore. They are a never-failing source of excruciating back pain that starts around 3:00 a.m. and slowly goes away, in stages, throughout the day. So far, I haven't spent more than one night at a time at one of those shelters; I can still feel the pain from last night,).
The mattress are misshapen, plastic lumps.
As I've said before, at least half of the beds are inches away from each other, which is a serious health hazard, and, at the shelter in Quincy, there are no doors on the stalls of any of the restrooms. That is DEGRADING.
The entire place is decrepit. it is exactly like anyone's fear of what a homeless shelter looks like.
I realize that much of society doesn't view homeless people as human beings, or believe that anyone who is homeless ought to feel anything but gratitude simply not to be outside at night. The Boston Public Health Commission shelters are tangible examples of society's beliefs about the homeless.
Some of the food I've had there so far has been good. Some of it has been ok, and some of it I wouldn't touch.
I'm again getting repetitive, continuous messages from Weebly that interrupt my ability to write here, and I'm having trouble publishing what I wrote.
I wrote that last sentence a few minutes ago. This was another instance in which I saved what i had written on the screen here to my e-mail account, then logged off the computer at the time limit for the computer, logged back on, got the essay out of my e-mail, and put it here to publish it.
Copyright L. Kochman, September 8, 2011 @ 8:16 p.m.
16. Newblog2011: 09/08/11 The Boston Public Health Commission Shelters
The conditions at the shelters run by the Boston Public Health Commission CANNOT be allowed to continue. Last night, I stayed at the shelter in Quincy. There weren't enough blankets and pillows for every person there to have one of each, or one of either.
That's just the beginning of it. G-d only knows how old the mattresses are (No Code--I can't avoid talking about the mattresses at the Boston Public Health Commision shelters anymore. They are a never-failing source of excruciating back pain that starts around 3:00 a.m. and slowly goes away, in stages, throughout the day. So far, I haven't spent more than one night at a time at one of those shelters; I can still feel the pain from last night,).
The mattress are misshapen, plastic lumps.
As I've said before, at least half of the beds are inches away from each other, which is a serious health hazard, and, at the shelter in Quincy, there are no doors on the stalls of any of the restrooms. That is DEGRADING.
The entire place is decrepit. it is exactly like anyone's fear of what a homeless shelter looks like.
I realize that much of society doesn't view homeless people as human beings, or believe that anyone who is homeless ought to feel anything but gratitude simply not to be outside at night. The Boston Public Health Commission shelters are tangible examples of society's beliefs about the homeless.
Some of the food I've had there so far has been good. Some of it has been ok, and some of it I wouldn't touch.
I'm again getting repetitive, continuous messages from Weebly that interrupt my ability to write here, and I'm having trouble publishing what I wrote.
I wrote that last sentence a few minutes ago. This was another instance in which I saved what i had written on the screen here to my e-mail account, then logged off the computer at the time limit for the computer, logged back on, got the essay out of my e-mail, and put it here to publish it.
Copyright L. Kochman, September 8, 2011 @ 8:16 p.m.