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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So based on the Days Inn ownership statement and having heard nothing from DC city government (shocking I know), there is actually no reason to expect that there is a behavioral health expert at the hotel or anybody else from the DC department of health. If there had been any sort of DC official present, I have no doubt that they would have at least had access to safe practices which they could refer the hotel to.

This sounds more like a case of DC Government stupidity. What is the quote? Never ascribe to malice what can be plainly explained by incompetence.

If they are using PPE's and cleaning, there isn't much more that can be done. All families are assigned a worker, but they probably are just doing phone check ins. Usually the families have to do things like drug testing, job search, etc. but none of that is probably going on right now and everyone is on survival mode.

No, if it is a quarantine site, there is more that the city can and should do. This days in is not being operated as a shelter. It is being operated as a quarantine site. With that there should come a clear set of DC government guidelines: how long is quarantine valid for, how do I get off of quarantine, how do I reschedule previously committed to appointments?

Look, this is easy stuff. Some people are trying to make it sound difficult but any sort of whole of government solution should have been able to knock out a reasonable solution for the Days Inn in an afternoon.

Whoever mentioned National Guard, they could have figured this out in a couple of hours.

[Anonymous]

Please, DC can barely issue a building permit for a fence much less deal with any complexity.

[Anonymous]

It is alarming they expect hotel operators to run quarantine protocols. They do love "contracting out" tho...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is alarming they expect hotel operators to run quarantine protocols. They do love "contracting out" tho...

Yes, they probably said "Go online and you can find CDC protocols. Good luck."

Then they can brief to whoever listens that they have set up five quarantine sites and sound like a real 'state'.

I wish that we could just get the small things right occasionally. The easy things in this case. That whole 'just do your job axiom'.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just tired of that stretch of CT Ave getting hosed. Ward 3 is a big place to spread around shared sacrifices. What is Palisades doing? What is Spring Valley doing? What is Chevy Chase doing? What is Friendship Heights doing? What is Barnaby Woods doing? Looking at you Mary Cheh.

McLean Gardens got the homeless shelter in a non-transparent process that got rushed through the Council. It’s not just Connecticut Ave. But I take your point. And I just cant get over how folks in those other neighbors love to get on their high horses and lecture others about Ward 3’s responsibly to “share the burden” and “do our part.”

McLean Garden is a private development not a neighborhood so McLean Gardens didn't get the homeless shelter though anyone who reads about DC politics on DCUM knows there is an aggrieved McLean Gardens resident who endlessly posts on DCUM complaining about the shelter site which was picked as part of very legal and normal DC Council legislation and which was then discussed at endless ANC meetings stretching out over a couple of years. But part of the community garden was sacrificed for a parking lot for the police so Ms. McLean gardens keeps on bitching about it.

In any case no idea what either of the PP's are complaining about as Ward 3 really bears very little of the burden of DC's undesirable infra.

Perhaps the Van Ness poster can come back on here to clarify what they are even talking about - UDC has been in Van Ness for almost 50 years and the new student center is a big improvement as is the Park Van Ness building and overall the Van Ness area is much more vibrant than it was 10 years ago.

Same thing with the west end of Cleveland Park where the Giant and Ward 3 homeless shelter is located - aside from the shelter what burden are the sheltered elites in Cleveland Park having to bear?

[Anonymous]

The burden of mismanaged services. An well run, orderly shelter and quarantine site are one thing. Contracted, mismanaged ones have a negative impact on the neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just tired of that stretch of CT Ave getting hosed. Ward 3 is a big place to spread around shared sacrifices. What is Palisades doing? What is Spring Valley doing? What is Chevy Chase doing? What is Friendship Heights doing? What is Barnaby Woods doing? Looking at you Mary Cheh.

McLean Gardens got the homeless shelter in a non-transparent process that got rushed through the Council. It’s not just Connecticut Ave. But I take your point. And I just cant get over how folks in those other neighbors love to get on their high horses and lecture others about Ward 3’s responsibly to “share the burden” and “do our part.”

McLean Garden is a private development not a neighborhood so McLean Gardens didn't get the homeless shelter though anyone who reads about DC politics on DCUM knows there is an aggrieved McLean Gardens resident who endlessly posts on DCUM complaining about the shelter site which was picked as part of very legal and normal DC Council legislation and which was then discussed at endless ANC meetings stretching out over a couple of years. But part of the community garden was sacrificed for a parking lot for the police so Ms. McLean gardens keeps on bitching about it.

In any case no idea what either of the PP's are complaining about as Ward 3 really bears very little of the burden of DC's undesirable infra.

Perhaps the Van Ness poster can come back on here to clarify what they are even talking about - UDC has been in Van Ness for almost 50 years and the new student center is a big improvement as is the Park Van Ness building and overall the Van Ness area is much more vibrant than it was 10 years ago.

Same thing with the west end of Cleveland Park where the Giant and Ward 3 homeless shelter is located - aside from the shelter what burden are the sheltered elites in Cleveland Park having to bear?

One the shelter opens the men can hang out all day at the entrance to the Giant Giant. Win-win for them and Giant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just tired of that stretch of CT Ave getting hosed. Ward 3 is a big place to spread around shared sacrifices. What is Palisades doing? What is Spring Valley doing? What is Chevy Chase doing? What is Friendship Heights doing? What is Barnaby Woods doing? Looking at you Mary Cheh.

McLean Gardens got the homeless shelter in a non-transparent process that got rushed through the Council. It’s not just Connecticut Ave. But I take your point. And I just cant get over how folks in those other neighbors love to get on their high horses and lecture others about Ward 3’s responsibly to “share the burden” and “do our part.”

McLean Garden is a private development not a neighborhood so McLean Gardens didn't get the homeless shelter though anyone who reads about DC politics on DCUM knows there is an aggrieved McLean Gardens resident who endlessly posts on DCUM complaining about the shelter site which was picked as part of very legal and normal DC Council legislation and which was then discussed at endless ANC meetings stretching out over a couple of years. But part of the community garden was sacrificed for a parking lot for the police so Ms. McLean gardens keeps on bitching about it.

In any case no idea what either of the PP's are complaining about as Ward 3 really bears very little of the burden of DC's undesirable infra.

Perhaps the Van Ness poster can come back on here to clarify what they are even talking about - UDC has been in Van Ness for almost 50 years and the new student center is a big improvement as is the Park Van Ness building and overall the Van Ness area is much more vibrant than it was 10 years ago.

Same thing with the west end of Cleveland Park where the Giant and Ward 3 homeless shelter is located - aside from the shelter what burden are the sheltered elites in Cleveland Park having to bear?

McLean Garden has existed since the Second World War. Exactly which neighborhood would you say it is a part of then?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is alarming they expect hotel operators to run quarantine protocols. They do love "contracting out" tho...

Yes, they probably said "Go online and you can find CDC protocols. Good luck."

Then they can brief to whoever listens that they have set up five quarantine sites and sound like a real 'state'.

I wish that we could just get the small things right occasionally. The easy things in this case. That whole 'just do your job axiom'.

Will someone halfway competent please run against this inept, vapid, sleazy mayor? Please!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just tired of that stretch of CT Ave getting hosed. Ward 3 is a big place to spread around shared sacrifices. What is Palisades doing? What is Spring Valley doing? What is Chevy Chase doing? What is Friendship Heights doing? What is Barnaby Woods doing? Looking at you Mary Cheh.

McLean Gardens got the homeless shelter in a non-transparent process that got rushed through the Council. It’s not just Connecticut Ave. But I take your point. And I just cant get over how folks in those other neighbors love to get on their high horses and lecture others about Ward 3’s responsibly to “share the burden” and “do our part.”

McLean Garden is a private development not a neighborhood so McLean Gardens didn't get the homeless shelter though anyone who reads about DC politics on DCUM knows there is an aggrieved McLean Gardens resident who endlessly posts on DCUM complaining about the shelter site which was picked as part of very legal and normal DC Council legislation and which was then discussed at endless ANC meetings stretching out over a couple of years. But part of the community garden was sacrificed for a parking lot for the police so Ms. McLean gardens keeps on bitching about it.

In any case no idea what either of the PP's are complaining about as Ward 3 really bears very little of the burden of DC's undesirable infra.

Perhaps the Van Ness poster can come back on here to clarify what they are even talking about - UDC has been in Van Ness for almost 50 years and the new student center is a big improvement as is the Park Van Ness building and overall the Van Ness area is much more vibrant than it was 10 years ago.

Same thing with the west end of Cleveland Park where the Giant and Ward 3 homeless shelter is located - aside from the shelter what burden are the sheltered elites in Cleveland Park having to bear?

Wow, you are EXACTLY the kind of short sighted person that the DC Govt needs in order to further its ineptitude. This thread is not so much about a location as it is about policy and execution. What is the policy that allowed a secret quarantine site to be established and what are the terms that it is being operated under. This was spelled out clearly above with people even plainly asking about the locations of other sites. But your desire to agitate forced you to your same tired old tropes and trying to turn this into an 'elites of Cleveland Park' argument.

People love throwing loaded language around when they have no argument. So go ahead, don't question how this program is being run. Apparently the city does not want to answer any questions anyways, because yesterday they took the opportunity to clarify nothing.

Bottom line is that there are five contracted quarantine sites being operated BY hotels in the city providing a 'safe' space for those that don't have other options. Nobody has any additional information about these sites, including, our elected representatives. There are some of us who feel that if this is worth doing, it should be done properly in a manner consistent with the cities overall COVID strategy. If we cannot do the little things properly is there any reason to believe that the larger parts of the COVID strategy are being run any more coherently? Mary Cheh even mentioned in her statement that this is a matter of trust between the City and it residents, even its elected representatives.

But you go ahead. Instead of holding the city accountable, go ahead try to turn this into some sort of Ward 3 vs the city argument where you get to take shots at communities that have existed for 70 years because they are 'elite'. I am sure that you will feel better about your perceived 'social re imagining'.

[Anonymous]

None of this should be in Ward 3.

[Anonymous]

PP has distilled this to a basic question that the city has not yet answered.

Where are the five quarantine sites, how are they being operated and how are they accountable to the city?

Those questions should take any decent public affairs section five minutes to answer. Going on day two now.

Let's keep the Ward Vs Ward infighting to the other threads.

[Anonymous]

The Director who participated in the ANC meeting last night did an admirable job of putting a botched plan into the most positive light. I don’t envy him, but he seems like a great public servant.

There are many troubling questions still unanswered though. For example, what happens when one of the 140 patients decides to leave? They are not under arrest, so there does not appear to be any reason why they can’t just walk out the door.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Director who participated in the ANC meeting last night did an admirable job of putting a botched plan into the most positive light. I don’t envy him, but he seems like a great public servant.

There are many troubling questions still unanswered though. For example, what happens when one of the 140 patients decides to leave? They are not under arrest, so there does not appear to be any reason why they can’t just walk out the door.

Yes, this is interesting. The quarantine is really only in name only, which is why the locations should be publicized. The quarantined persons are still being allowed to commute to other medical appointments and such rather than being helped to schedule Tele medicine or reschedule non critical appointments.

Therefore all we have really created is a very densely populated potential Corona virus setting of people walking to the Supermarket and other local points of interest.

The residents around the five 'quarantine' sites need to know that beyond the standard measures they are taking, they are in an oculous with potentially a higher concentration of Corona vectors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Director who participated in the ANC meeting last night did an admirable job of putting a botched plan into the most positive light. I don’t envy him, but he seems like a great public servant.

There are many troubling questions still unanswered though. For example, what happens when one of the 140 patients decides to leave? They are not under arrest, so there does not appear to be any reason why they can’t just walk out the door.

Yes, this is interesting. The quarantine is really only in name only, which is why the locations should be publicized. The quarantined persons are still being allowed to commute to other medical appointments and such rather than being helped to schedule Tele medicine or reschedule non critical appointments.

Therefore all we have really created is a very densely populated potential Corona virus setting of people walking to the Supermarket and other local points of interest.

The residents around the five 'quarantine' sites need to know that beyond the standard measures they are taking, they are in an oculous with potentially a higher concentration of Corona vectors.

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