How to Help the Homeless in a Quarantine
For James Winans, the message to the public about how to deal with the COVID-19 outbreak is clear, but troubling: “‘Stock up at home, stay at home, work from home’—as if everyone has a home.”
As interim CEO of The Bowery Mission in New York City, Winans knows how unreachable many of these guidelines are for those in homelessness, and this poses serious dangers, not only to those he and his staff serve, but to the greater public.
As the outbreak upends our daily lives, many believers likely haven’t realized how this crisis is playing out for their neighbors on the streets—or that there are ways they can help.
The Reality
Some reasoned that Italy’s older-than-average population made them especially vulnerable to the virus. But as Newt Gingrich pointed out in Newsweek on March 13:
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