KM-HQ: November 24, 2020
This came into our newsroom by a member who obtained permission to share it with us from another member, who wrote it, and we felt it best belonged in the Dear Auntie Bear sectio. We hope you agree and can see the importance of such being shared, especially as we enter the "holiday season" that is to do with Thanksgiving and brotherly/sisterly love... least we forget those also suffering and far worse than most of us. Please say a prayer for them and all suffering like them if you would, thanks:
"....A Homeless Couple and Death... This weekend a guy I knew was found dead in a tent by his girlfriend..They have been homeless for about a year together...It's hard being homeless but when your partner dies it is worse than you could even imagine.This is a little of what she had to deal with.. She woke up Saturday to find him dead.. That alone is very traumatic. So she called 911..When the police arrived instead of comforting her they questioned her. Then they went through her stuff.. All this happened while they were loading her boyfriend up to take away..They told her where they were taking his body. But instead of letting her ride with they told her she couldn't be camping there and needed to pack her stuff and leave the area... This woman's boyfriend had just died and all the police cared about was telling her to pack up her stuff and leave..Luckily she had a couple friends there to help her... Later she realized the police had taken his wallet and phone with him..The last of their money was in that wallet along with the food stamp cards they had so she couldn't even eat..She also needed to call his brother and tell him what had happened but couldn't because the number was in phone.. She used someone's phone and called to ask how she can get the stuff released to her was told she would have to wait til Monday to talk with someone... So waited til this morning and called and was told they can only release the stuff to his immediate family.. They don't even know he is dead yet because she can't get his phone..How can she call with no number? So this is what happens when you are homeless and your partner dies... The police don't care.. You get no compassion instead they go through your stuff..Then they ship the body off somewhere and tell you to pack your stuff up and go somewhere else. You don't get any compassion or help from anyone when you try to collect your partner's stuff. And sometimes you don't even know how to contact their family.. Imagine going through this drama right after you lose your partner.. And just imagine if that was your son and he has been dead for three days and she can't tell you about it.. Just imagine that..
( I don't know what he died from but it wasn't drugs. He didn't even smoke pot.. Just so people don't assume things)"
Struggles like these are becoming far to commonplace across the nation and presented to the community in ways of frustration - what do we Do to deal with homelessness in a good medicine way for the people with no other choice, options or resources. It's not a "new issue" contrary to what the masses seem to perceive, it's always been, just not to these levels or extremes, which revealed far before the Covid-29 pandemic, but between the fires and Covid, it's definitely becoming far to blatent to ignore.
Earlier this year, researchers at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health declared "COVID-19 pandemic is likely to kill more than 3,400 people experiencing homelessness across the United States", according to their estimates, it's projected that " COVID-19 pandemic is likely to kill more than 3,400 people experiencing homelessness across the United States" , and they believe "COVID-19 could be responsible for hospitalization of an estimated 21,295 people who do not currently have housing, or about 4.3% of the nationwide homeless population, . You can click and review their report for yourself if you like at your convenience in a report finalized this week here:
Of those likely to be hospitalized nationwide, these researchers predict that "nearly 7,200 or more may require critical care."
Times are harder for our generation in the here and now of today more than we have ever had to endure, but thankfully, we come from long lines of survivors whose ancestors have endured far more and worse than the masses including of we suffering have yet to have to try and endure.
