Death & Disease: Suicide, Murder, & Reports of Tuberculosis at Occupy Encampments (video)
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on November 11, 2011
Downward spiral: It’s going from bad to worse at the Occupy encampments across the country — death and disease are growing.
From CBS Atlanta, Tuberculosis Breaks Out At Occupy Atlanta’s Base:
ATLANTA (CBS Atlanta) – The home base for Occupy Atlanta has tested positive for tuberculosis.
The Fulton County Health Department confirmed Wednesday that residents at the homeless shelter where protesters have been occupying have contracted the drug-resistant disease. WGCL reports that a health department spokeswoman said there is a possibility that both Occupy Atlanta protesters and the homeless people in the shelter may still be at risk since tuberculosis is contracted through air contact.
“Over the last three months were have been two persons who have resided in this facility who have been diagnosed with confirmed or suspected infectious tuberculosis (TB),” said Fulton County Services Director Matthew McKenna in a written statement to CBS Atlanta. “One of these persons was confirmed to have a strain of TB that is resistant to a single, standard medication used to treat this condition. All person(s) identified as positive have begun treatment and are being monitored to ensure that medication is taken as directed.”
The Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless has indicated that two cases have been made public knowledge to the group, the first coming from someone who contracted the disease in September. The identities of the people who have contracted the disease, however, have not been disclosed by the health department to this point.
From Business Insider, Yesterday At Occupy: A Suicide, A Murder, And Reports Of Tuberculosis:
At Occupy Burlington a man named Josh, 35, said to be a military veteran needing mental health services, shot and killed himself at about 2:20 in the afternoon. He died a few hours later at a local hospital.
There was also a shooting in Oakland where one man died and a reporter filming the incident was injured. Reports vary, but this video below was shot by a man on the scene who says he heard six shots that were prompted by a fight over “a bag of weed.” “It’s gotten really nasty down here, real fast.”
Shooting 30 feet from Occupy Oakland camp
The man in the blue jacket is the reporter who was injured while trying to film the conflict. By all reports this is an incident of Oakland street violence brought to Occupy Oakland.
At Occupy Atlanta there were reports picked up my many media outlets that tuberculosis had hit the camp, but the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports tests showed “No trace of any TB at all.”
As protesters establish themselves and require no identification to gain access to their encampments, violence and crime are inevitable.
And of course, the illegal drug use of the Flea Party continues at the Occupy Whatever camps… reported by CBS Boston, 3 Charged With Dealing Crack; Occupy Boston ‘Deteriorating’:
BOSTON (CBS) – Three people arrested Thursday night inside the Occupy Boston camp have been charged with dealing crack cocaine.
WBZ NewsRadio 1030’s Carl Stevens, who spent the night at the camp a few weeks ago, talked to a man who spends most nights at Occupy Boston. He said things have gone downhill.
“Things have changed drastically. It seems to be deteriorating,” the man told Carl. “A lot of drug use, alcohol use, people getting into fights… It’s deteriorating pretty quick.”
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