So in Toronto, there seems to be a crisis with the homeless population. Overcrowding, lack of space, lack of assistance. It's so bad, activist groups are suing the city. The overcrowding is at a dangerous level, where people are forced to sleep within 2 feet and unable to stay 6 feet apart:

Beds or cots are still only two feet apart, people are in bunk beds, bathrooms aren't being cleaned more"

Unsurprisingly, corona cases are soaring in the homeless population.

2 weeks ago, this article illustrated the terrible conditions in the city's homeless shelters as well, so it's obviously nothing new. You'll see from the headline that the thread of the virus spreading has been talked about for a while. But there are a few interesting quotes here. First from Cathy Crowe, a nurse who works with the homeless:

“This is outrageous,” she told reporters. “As a nurse, I do not understand this.”

Which seems like something is going on.

Now, let's take a look at comments from Mary-Anne Bedard, the City of Toronto’s general manager of shelter, support and housing administration

[Bedard] said moving hundreds of people into hotels is a “very complicated issue.” “There are also significant logistics involved. We have to make sure that there are staff on site, that we have fire and life safety checks done, that we have contracts in place for food and cleaning and linen, and also we have to develop a fairly complicated transportation plan,” she said, adding City staff are moving as quickly as possible.

Is it really that complicated though? To give people hotel rooms or open up an extra shelter space? And then this line, which I think we all know what it means:

“We also want to make sure it’s a tiered response based on people’s vulnerabilities so we’re moving the most vulnerable people first.”

"Tiered response"..."most vulnerable"...I have a feeling this means men being left out, which seems to be what is happening. She's the top authority of shelter and support...and she thinks there are homeless people who aren't vulnerable? I find that concerning, the person responsible for shelter should be concerned that homeless people are being left in such conditions for weeks, not defending the practice.

Then there's this article which I found noteworthy. It was an interview of a homeless man, but look at what he says here:

"Hi, hello, to whoever cares and is in charge my name is Jonus and I'm homeless," he began, adding, "We're not all evil or bad, we're not all out to get nobody and we're right now having a hard time trying to isolate."

What treatment has he had to make him think and say this? Where did these words come from? It sounds like this is conditioned thinking, something that has been repeated to him many times.

This is, like many men's issues, something that is not explicitly stated but requires a little bit of reading between the lines. There definitely seems to be something wrong in this picture.