Weird Hours- Too often people have to get there a certain time, waiting for hours to get a bed, maybe getting there at 10 pm and not going to sleep till midnight. Often shelters ask you to check out early in the morning. A person can get better sleep in the bushes.
Theft- From other homeless folks but even more often, from shelter workers. A typical set up is for the homeless is for the homeless people to have to put their belongings into a common storage room where shelter workers then plunger what they like, while homeless people sleep. Too often staying in a shelter means loosing money, personal papers, shoes, mementos.
Parasites- Scabies, fleas ( there are human fleas but we are not to that point yet, but dog and cat fleas will stay on a person for a few days and bite ) crabs, head lice.
Disease- From Hepatitis A and B to the current flu, drug resistant TB, to various pneumonia
including the very contagious my coplasm pneumonia, if they are around at all, a shelter is almost designed to make sure every one gets them.
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