GROUND ZERO demand is stop forcing us to break our isolation bubble every single weekday. I am going back to court to stop the potential exposure to COVID-19 to my husband (who has liver cancer diagnosed on September 16, 2019 by UCSF’S Liver Transplant Unit) by way of nurses walking door to door taking vitals with equipment and PPE not changed between patients, while article after article in the media clearly states this virus can be transmitted by medical equipment (this IS being put to court in my lawsuit). Medically support, says all the bureaucratic paperwork ? I asked for Metamucil a week after I got here, unable to leave, and they looked right through me … do you have any idea what it’s like to ask for such an intimate (and essential) product and be ignored? Also, I am completely fatigued of them asking unnecessary questions about illegal drug use every single day – do I look like I am doing cocaine at night? And who needs to know when I took a shower last? Or pooped? Pee this morning? Sleep good? Did you eat? What exactly does any of that have to do with COVID-19? No one tested us UNTIL I asked which was June 14th. Been under County “care” since March 19, 2020. The rules here say we must submit to this indignity in order to stay here.
The 14th amendment of the US Constitution defends one’s right to bodily integrity. Unless you have a swab to stick up my nose (or my husband’s), I am asking that these daily (unnecessary) visits stop. Our qualification for staying in adequate housing cannot rest upon being required to break a high-risk patient’s isolation bubble five times a week.
2. Stop threatening us with forced hospice. The County already filed an Adult Protective Services report on me for not caring for Greg properly when we were forced to abandon the RV on March 19, 2020 (Sherman Island County Park). He wants a dignified death. At home. With me by his side. That’s why we went to court back in March to get a judge to watch over this. Been back twice. He is waiting, I am sure, curious to see how this has worked out. I have already sent an Administrative Claim (rejected) so we are cleared for take-off for an actual lawsuit. This is Elder Abuse under colour of authority. Because it has happened because we are RV dwellers and the County steadfastly has refused any assistance to return us to our home, an RV, still stranded at Sherman Island County Park for 108 days now (July 3rd, 2020 is date of this document was written).
3. I need to have assurances we will not be forced to break quarantine again and be moved. First we were forced to move out of our RV on March 19, 2020 and become dependent on the County for housing in “Project Roomkey”. We had been Shelter-in-Place since mid-February. And we were paid guests at the campground. We had a week paid receipt and no one ever gave a refund, either. Our fuel pump went out. Once in the motel, we were forced to move every 21-days at the motel and already been made to move once, a week after we arrived. This is done in order to avoid bestowing housing rights. And give us a key to the trailer we are in. Staff locks and unlocks the trailers when people have to go out to a doctor visit, etc. The FEMA name of project INCLUDES the word “key”. So where is it?!! When we have to go out anywhere, we have to go physically walk to the office trailer and ASK someone to come lock trailer. Wasn’t that Governor Newsom and FEMA’s whole play to the tax payer? A room key for the homeless???!!! Why is it still on staff’s key ring?
4. I need a notary or two witnesses not in health care so Greg can sign an Advanced Care paper. For a full week I have been asking for this. This gets me in the ambulance. He is coughing up blood for a week. If I decide to transport him, as opposed to the home death he insists on, I should have this option. I am a trained midwife. I know about life and death. And I know we, as a couple, have marital rights. The nurse emailed it over the weekend to the onsite staff. She told me about it yesterday, July 2nd. Been trying for a full week to get this paper. Been to office over and over. Wrote the “Navigator” who sent me a screenshot of mobile notaries. So bring me one! Get them onto the secure campus. I will pay anything they want!
Update: DEMAND MET. Documentation signed by staff on July 4th, 2020
Please note below in the County weekly report just how few people are on campus. So why does it take so long for two people to walk over and sign they witnessed Greg sign a document?
This hunger strike is going be enforced by what we can get done in a courtroom. Ask yourself why the County would rather spend $8000+ in motel vouchers, then move us here to this campus? And further, we were never tested in the motel room to see if we had the COVID-19. I don’t know the answer to that either. But when I was told an Adult Protective Services report had been filed by a county worker who never saw me or even talked to me on the phone, so we drove down and went right to Courthouse door. APRIL 1ST 2020 to yes, a closed court. I gave the paper to a security guard to put in drop box. He is a photo of him going inside with it.
That was the first thing the Park Ranger said when I protested to their plan we would abandon the RV (in need of a fuel pump) at Sherman Island County Park March 19, 2020 and go meekly into “care”.
The RV is, as of July 4th, still there.
We are almost at the end of a lawsuit Mayon v Bosman #C18-00168 Contra Costa County (self-represented also) with our ex-landlord because he had no permit to operate a mobilehome park in such an environmentally suspect neighborhood as zip 94509. For example, an unremediated Superfund site just 2000′ away, leaching lead and 27 other Prop. 65 chemicals into the groundwater.
5. An actual written-down plan. What happens next? All we personally know is what we hear on TV. But in here, people are being given two-weeks in a room, then turned back out like wormed cattle to free-range. What exactly is the plan a high-risk older couple like us? No more vagueness. The money being given to County isn’t vague at all. I am going to scream Sunshine Act at the top of my lungs. Millions are being spent. For what? Run down motels and a STAFF who themselves must hate to hand out that sorry excuse for food. Yet the governor talks about rewarding the Country. 😤For WHAT? I can’t even get a pair of signatures from staff without daily badgering for a full week. County worker sent me a SCREENSHOT when she knows damn good and well this is a restricted campus.
6. I need a one-time ride to Antioch to collect my mail from my box. I have the legal papers waiting there for me pertaining to the lawsuit filed in March over this horrible violation of our bodily integrity and housing rights, not to mention our privacy. Apparently some sort of ride service is available for us, a shuttle, but when I ask staff, no one knows a thing. I have certainly not been offered it. Uber is $150 plus $$$ more for their wait time. We live on an SSI couple’s check. Not completely without resources.
7. I need a tube of super glue. No one out here will do a damn thing. I broke my denture. I can’t leave. No one brings anybody anything unless you ask over and over. Don’t get me wrong, super nice and friendly, but except for daily documentation and throwing a bag of food a pig would reject, there is no valid input out here.
UPDATE: Day #1 … … … Steve the manager was in when I walked up, showed him my broke dentures and he immediately agreed the superglue was a necessary item and said he was on his way to go fetch supplies. I reiterated the need for the witnesses because if he waited much longer Greg wouldn’t be coherent.
UPDATE: Day #2 … … … twice promised by Steve the manager, three times by Celeste in which the last time she told me someone named Daniele had some and she would bring it. These are my dentures. This is very demoralizing. And when I smile at my husband, trying to cheer him up, he startles every time to see I am missing a tooth.
UPDATE: #3 About 2pm an older thin black man named Daniel knocked on the door and told me that people pay him to go to store and buy them stuff. I am stunned. I have been here since June 14th, that’s 17 days and I am just now finding out about Daniel??? That’s who Celeste meant when she said Daniele. I misunderstood her. Well, I had no cash to give him. I ran out of cash a week ago. Everything I do to get food and pot in here has been PayPal and Zelle. I just told him that was okay I would have to wait, but thank you. He asked what my need was and I showed him my denture, smiled actually. He shuddered just like my husband. I had to laugh at this point who cares, right? I am dying in a fucking refuge camp in the Cali’s Capitol. Well, long story short, Daniel says I will get it for you, don’t worry about no cash. An hour later, the dark-headed woman in shorts from the office, the one I had asked three days in a row to send me two staff members to witness Greg sign power of attorney over to me, she is at the door, taking out one of the two tubes of Superglue to give me, all smiles. I saw Daniel bought the good brand, too, which made me inordinately happy. I am soooooo giving him a twenty dollar tip next time he is on campus. That is, if I can ever get somewhere there is an ATM. How on earth are people coping out here??? Well, the dark-headed woman apologized for not coming by yesterday with it, and asked if I needed anything else. I came within a hair’s breath of saying, yeah a ride to the post office so I can mail a complaint to the court about how long it took you folks to walk over here and give me a simple signature. That’s some real class-A arrogance y’all got working here. But I didn’t say that. I just thanked her. And seriously, I appreciated getting it. Three days for Superglue and a week for two witnesses to saunter over and sign a paper that lets me get in Ambulance and hopefully the ER. Damn. I am losing my touch.
Demand #7 met July 5, 2020
8. Someone needs to be assigned to each resident, someone who is accountable to that person’s supplies. No, not a case manager. Onsite or actually stopping by, but someone with a damn clipboard saying what is missing? People have no help out here. They plead with the food delivery people, who rotate. Or yell at people walking by. One of the new residents knocked on my door a couple days ago begging to be told how to adjust the AC which was too cold. The stress we have been forced to endure for the past 108 days has been unbearable. It has definitely contributed to his current ammonia-impacted condition. Stress is deadly to someone already ill. Add a pandemic. Then make them homeless and force “services” that don’t exist on them. Yeahhhhhh, just two days ago, I saw on TV how Gov Newsom plans to “reward” the counties enrolled in Project Roomkey now evolving into Project Homekey. Oh yeah? Hold my beer. We are gonna talk about that. Nearly 300 motels already bought and 1.3 billion set aside to support this obscene warehousing of the most vulnerable. Read my last three texts to the “Navigator”, again let me reiterate, this is the point person for the county.
9. I need Goodwill Industries, Cal Expo and the County to figure out where my car can be parked in here and accessible 24/7 to me, since there is no transport to hospital for me to go with him in the ambulance. All day today (July 3rd, 2020), a tube of superglue. Do you know what it’s like to have a broken denture and no access to your own damn car to go get Superglue. Let me say this again, I have a car that has NOT been allowed in the campus (staff cars are). And second, my husband can’t be left alone. I literally can’t be off trying to get a jumpstart my car, wait for AAA, get its nearly flat tire filled back up. Just to go get some superglue from a gas station. There is nothing in walking distance. Not that will get me back to Greg before he needs me. Why am I not allowed my car? That’s a valid question.
10. Emergency phone numbers need to be provided. An emergency exit map. How things work. Security ? A single truck up front. Cops roll thru real dlow few times a day. That’s for the FEMA inmates. I need to be able to reach someone. Nurse told us of reports of trailer break-ins yesterday. I can hear people out wandering all night. It’s not very restful. Security rolls through in a truck every so often. I need to be able to call someone. The nurse gave me her personal cell phone number, and she gave me the ambulance service’s direct number. But why doesn’t the County hand out these numbers?
11. Food. Oh my God. The food. And as a devote Christian, I am not taking the Lord’s name in vain. See this page for a pictorial display of the last two weeks. Hook up the stoves. All along I have demanded a kitchen so as to continue the special diet per the nutritional specialist at UCSF’S Liver Transplant Unit back Sept 16, 2019 when we found out about the cancer.
Why is FEMA paying for Great Plates for people in houses, but we don’t get it? Give that AND SOME STAPLES. Milk, cereal, bread, sugar, peanut butter, jelly, a damn egg.
This new rule that staff put out on a small slip of paper was the last straw and is why I chose a hunger strike as my mode of communication.
12. Arrange an address to receive packages for the FEMA/ Project Roomkey inmates. Given the horrible food, I need to be able to receive a bi-weekly meal kit. I am SSI for mobility issues, so it’s a valid ADA issue to have to chase down food delivery trucks, carrying a wheeled suitcase.
13. Toilet paper delivered daily. It’s a given need. Why do I have to ask repeatedly every three days?
14. Cleaning supplies. There is not so much as a roll of paper towel. Need to get dish washing liquid, spray, sponges, a broom, a mop in ALL the trailers.
NO BAGS ARE PROVIDED.
15. Linens. This trailer (and the first one) had in it upon arrival: 1 set of sheets, 2 plastic covered pillows, a scratchy red cross blanket, 1 towel, 1 washcloth. That is all provided in two plus weeks hete. Yet Goodwill Industries is running this. Trust me, the one one they have is linens. My husband has thin blood (common in end-stage liver disease) and a chronic bleeding issue. When I put the sheets (and my own blankets brought from home) in the twice-weekly laundry service, what do I use in the interim?
Nah, because it’s day #3 of asking for damn Superglue.
Basics like soap, shampoo, and such. But also give things like when I desperately needed Metamucil before I convinced Safeway to deliver out here. Asked nurses. No response. Went to office twice. Nobody answers. I can’t be away from Greg. He BLEEDS at moments notice. The liver disease makes it that way.
16. I need a kitten. Or two. Comfort. Service animals. I am losing my mind from sheer loneliness. If you have a pet, no Project Roomkey for you. What about the animals? Do they just get abandoned? What is wrong with these people?
17. Fix the damn cable. This is worse than jail out here.
18. My husband needs to be allowed to smoke his medical marijuana inside the trailer. He can’t sit outside on a bucket in the direct sun. Allow me to have my trailer’s awning extended so I don’t have to be in the sun when I go outside to smoke MY medicine without every male out here coming over to see if I need anything. As a female, I need to smoke inside in privacy too.
19. Real ant problem in this trailer and last. Husband got bit by spider. See photo. Wasp nests under trailer.
20. RV dwellers must be acknowledged and included in “Project Homekey”. I need my home back!!! This was taken the day we were forced to abandon it at Sherman Island county park. It’s still there. It needs a full pump and a roof. Two front tires. Let me out of this FEMA death camp! Give me back my life. This is what I had.
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21. Last, but not least, the Governor must agree to modify his next Sheter-in-Place at all campgrounds allowing them to stay open because. After all #GypsyLivesMatter
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