@kevinmnye1@HowTheWestWS I just went to Sbux n Fresno, CA. Got their largest ice water, free. My eye glasses broke, and I saw a blurry figure sitting in front of the gas station. I ordered 2 ice waters, delivered to the seated man. -Michaela /1 @MayorJerryDyer@BalderramaPaco
2/ @kevinmnye1@HowTheWestWS The young man (I'm 59) said, "You helped me last yr." He went to Peoples' Church & affiliated school, graduated high school. @fresnostate in Business major, his life fell apart due to schizophrenia. -Michaela cc: @MayorJerryDyer@BalderramaPaco
3/ @kevinmnye1@HowTheWestWS The homeless young man said that he's praying for relief, the voices in his head are constant, alcohol and drug problems. He feels hopeless, worthless. -Michaela cc: @MayorJerryDyer@BalderramaPaco
2/ @MayorJerryDyer@SoniaMDLR I suggest that we attend to homeless peoples' needs: places for rest, food, drink, bathrooms, medical care, storage of belongings. If we do NOT attend to their needs, they will not get vaxxed, in my opinion. Do not place them at Poverello/Rescue Msn.
@Maxwell4Fresno Hi Tyler, Thanks for getting free buses passed in Fresno, CA. Many homeless people are mentally ill, legally entitled to Social Security disability, takes yrs to get, have no funds to get to appts, including for housing. -Michaela cc: @mlfudge@MayorJerryDyer /1
@RebeccaVanderh6@kevinmnye1 2/ The majority of Fresno, CA's homeless have disabling conditions like mental illness, are legally entitled to Social Security disability and other benefits, and aren't receiving them! Just evil, and incompetent, & expensive to system: -hospitalizations, police, courts, jail.
@RebeccaVanderh6@kevinmnye1 3/ It is quite common that even if a person has help, they are denied Social Security disability on the first try. They then have to get a Social Security atty to appeal case at the federal level! Cc: @threadreaderapp unroll , please
@RebeccaVanderh6@kevinmnye1@threadreaderapp 4/ I compare the application process for Social Security disability to making someone with broken bones from a car crash climb Mt. Everest, then tossing them off the cliff if they got to the top. It's the most vicious system. What a cruel thing to do to people with broken brains.
@CarmenGeorge 4/ I've never been so sick, or had the system have to shell out so much money for my healthcare, as in the long wait list for gov studio apt. -Michaela
@CarmenGeorge 5/ I've been hospitalized 2x for food poisoning from transitional homeless shelters for women. The second case of toxins almost caused my liver to fail & I was in the hospital hooked up to IV's. Surgeon said my alarm at whites of my eyes turning yellow and getting care saved me.
@CarmenGeorge 6/ Transitional homeless shelter staff has ridiculed me for wanting to get medical care for yellow eyes. CRMC surgeon told me he was glad that I'd ignored them and yellow eyes were a sign of liver failing from toxins, not processing. Would have died later in week if no care!