Dumpsters overflow with trash, discarded PPE at DC quarantine site On Connecticut Ave

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Right. But only one of the locations is immediately adjacent to a residential neighborhood, across from a preschool and surrounded by multiple small businesses trying to stay afloat. It’s a completely inappropriate location, other than for sticking it to the man.

But we will never know how the city selected the sites as they will never be transparent with their selection criteria.

Capitol Skyline is also in a residential neighborhood and has a private school on the next block. There are many businesses within a 1-2 block radius of it.

I wonder if the issue with using city-owned sites is that they wanted people to have private bathrooms. The Ward 6 family shelter is ready to operate but DHS has postponed moving families in. Since DHS refused to build the shelter with private bathrooms for each family (even though they were repeatedly asked to do so by the ANC, homeless advocates, and others at public meetings) and instead most rooms share a bathroom between two families, it might not be a good place to quarantine people.

On the other hand, it might make sense to put people in hotels while they are awaiting test results and then move to congregate quarantine facilities like the Ward 6 shelter after that. I'm not sure that using the convention center makes much sense though...DC would have to buy or rent beds, people might disturb each other, would there be TVs or other things to do? Hotels do have certain advantages because they're already set up for people to live there. The convention center would also charge for rental, I'd think.

Could DC rent Providence hospital? Too bad they tore down DC general already.

they should move these families in, but leave one room empty between each family, so only one per bathroom. What a waste! Total dumbasses and money wasters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Right. But only one of the locations is immediately adjacent to a residential neighborhood, across from a preschool and surrounded by multiple small businesses trying to stay afloat. It’s a completely inappropriate location, other than for sticking it to the man.

But we will never know how the city selected the sites as they will never be transparent with their selection criteria.

Capitol Skyline is also in a residential neighborhood and has a private school on the next block. There are many businesses within a 1-2 block radius of it.

I wonder if the issue with using city-owned sites is that they wanted people to have private bathrooms. The Ward 6 family shelter is ready to operate but DHS has postponed moving families in. Since DHS refused to build the shelter with private bathrooms for each family (even though they were repeatedly asked to do so by the ANC, homeless advocates, and others at public meetings) and instead most rooms share a bathroom between two families, it might not be a good place to quarantine people.

On the other hand, it might make sense to put people in hotels while they are awaiting test results and then move to congregate quarantine facilities like the Ward 6 shelter after that. I'm not sure that using the convention center makes much sense though...DC would have to buy or rent beds, people might disturb each other, would there be TVs or other things to do? Hotels do have certain advantages because they're already set up for people to live there. The convention center would also charge for rental, I'd think.

Could DC rent Providence hospital? Too bad they tore down DC general already.

they should move these families in, but leave one room empty between each family, so only one per bathroom. What a waste! Total dumbasses and money wasters.

Insulting to dumbasses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Right. But only one of the locations is immediately adjacent to a residential neighborhood, across from a preschool and surrounded by multiple small businesses trying to stay afloat. It’s a completely inappropriate location, other than for sticking it to the man.

But we will never know how the city selected the sites as they will never be transparent with their selection criteria.

Capitol Skyline is also in a residential neighborhood and has a private school on the next block. There are many businesses within a 1-2 block radius of it.

I wonder if the issue with using city-owned sites is that they wanted people to have private bathrooms. The Ward 6 family shelter is ready to operate but DHS has postponed moving families in. Since DHS refused to build the shelter with private bathrooms for each family (even though they were repeatedly asked to do so by the ANC, homeless advocates, and others at public meetings) and instead most rooms share a bathroom between two families, it might not be a good place to quarantine people.

On the other hand, it might make sense to put people in hotels while they are awaiting test results and then move to congregate quarantine facilities like the Ward 6 shelter after that. I'm not sure that using the convention center makes much sense though...DC would have to buy or rent beds, people might disturb each other, would there be TVs or other things to do? Hotels do have certain advantages because they're already set up for people to live there. The convention center would also charge for rental, I'd think.

Could DC rent Providence hospital? Too bad they tore down DC general already.

they should move these families in, but leave one room empty between each family, so only one per bathroom. What a waste! Total dumbasses and money wasters.

Insulting to dumbasses.

That’s no way to refer to DC’s mayor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Right. But only one of the locations is immediately adjacent to a residential neighborhood, across from a preschool and surrounded by multiple small businesses trying to stay afloat. It’s a completely inappropriate location, other than for sticking it to the man.

But we will never know how the city selected the sites as they will never be transparent with their selection criteria.

Capitol Skyline is also in a residential neighborhood and has a private school on the next block. There are many businesses within a 1-2 block radius of it.

I wonder if the issue with using city-owned sites is that they wanted people to have private bathrooms. The Ward 6 family shelter is ready to operate but DHS has postponed moving families in. Since DHS refused to build the shelter with private bathrooms for each family (even though they were repeatedly asked to do so by the ANC, homeless advocates, and others at public meetings) and instead most rooms share a bathroom between two families, it might not be a good place to quarantine people.

On the other hand, it might make sense to put people in hotels while they are awaiting test results and then move to congregate quarantine facilities like the Ward 6 shelter after that. I'm not sure that using the convention center makes much sense though...DC would have to buy or rent beds, people might disturb each other, would there be TVs or other things to do? Hotels do have certain advantages because they're already set up for people to live there. The convention center would also charge for rental, I'd think.

Could DC rent Providence hospital? Too bad they tore down DC general already.

they should move these families in, but leave one room empty between each family, so only one per bathroom. What a waste! Total dumbasses and money wasters.

Insulting to dumbasses.

That’s no way to refer to DC’s mayor.

“Dumbass” is simply inaccurate.

More like “corrupt dumbass”?

[Anonymous]

Did we ever hear how the statistics are worked for the quarantine sites. As far as where are the numbers counted in the DC Corona Virus Statistics. https://coronavirus.dc.gov/page/coronavirus-data

I would assume that if I telemedicine with my Doctor (Mine is in MD) and then get referred to a testing site (I'd go to the closest to my house so in DC) that my statistics would be counted in DC and that information would be taken from some paperwork I filled out at the testing location. Maybe they would then bounce that off of a medical insurance verification pull that they could do instantly at the testing site.

But how would it work in the case that I were homeless? How would the data be accounted for or verified? Or is the whole thing just kind of an 'honor' system where we are self reporting our own data.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I want to know why a quarantine site is located in Ward 3 in the first place. If you look at a map of the city, those zip codes have the lowest rate of infection. So why move all these people to Ward 3? Why not contain it?

Because it is an empty hotel.

Empty before the quarantine started? I didn't realize that. Are they planning to close or remodel it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I want to know why a quarantine site is located in Ward 3 in the first place. If you look at a map of the city, those zip codes have the lowest rate of infection. So why move all these people to Ward 3? Why not contain it?

Because it is an empty hotel.

Empty before the quarantine started? I didn't realize that. Are they planning to close or remodel it?

NO THE HOTEL WAS OCCUPIED AND THE GUESTS WERE FORCED WITH NO NOTICE TO RELOCATE TO ANOTHER HOTEL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I want to know why a quarantine site is located in Ward 3 in the first place. If you look at a map of the city, those zip codes have the lowest rate of infection. So why move all these people to Ward 3? Why not contain it?

Because it is an empty hotel.

Empty before the quarantine started? I didn't realize that. Are they planning to close or remodel it?

NO THE HOTEL WAS OCCUPIED AND THE GUESTS WERE FORCED WITH NO NOTICE TO RELOCATE TO ANOTHER HOTEL

IT HAPPENED ON GOOD FRIDAY.

[Anonymous]

Any updates on the current occupancy rates of the 5 DC quarantine shelters?

Here are the old figures from two weeks ago (Two of the four hotels were empty):

1. Ivy City Hotel at 1615 New York Ave NE, 42 Occupancies 12 Vacant
2. Hotel Arboretum at 1917 Bladensburg Rd NE, 71 Occupied and 19 Vacant
3. Days Inn at 4400 Connecticut Ave NW, 143 Occupied and 7 Vacant
4. Capitol Skyline Hotel at 10 I St SW, 0 rooms occupied 203 rooms vacant
5. Fairfield Inn at 2305 New York Ave NE, 0 rooms occupied and 126 rooms vacant

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I want to know why a quarantine site is located in Ward 3 in the first place. If you look at a map of the city, those zip codes have the lowest rate of infection. So why move all these people to Ward 3? Why not contain it?

Because it is an empty hotel.

Empty before the quarantine started? I didn't realize that. Are they planning to close or remodel it?

NO THE HOTEL WAS OCCUPIED AND THE GUESTS WERE FORCED WITH NO NOTICE TO RELOCATE TO ANOTHER HOTEL

IT HAPPENED ON GOOD FRIDAY.

Jay-sus! That sounds mishandled