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‘Petri dish for disease’: attorney raises alarm of possible Covid outbreak at ‘Alligator Aushwitz’ (www.theguardian.com)

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An outbreak of a respiratory disease, possibly Covid-19, is running rampant through the remote Florida immigration jail known as “Alligator Alcatraz”, according to the attorney of an infected detainee removed from the camp last week.

Eric Lee said he was told by his client Luis Manuel Rivas Velásquez that conditions at the facility had deteriorated significantly since Thursday as more migrants held there by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agency experienced symptoms.

Lee said authorities removed Rivas Velásquez, a 38-year-old Venezuelan man, from the camp after he was diagnosed in a hospital visit last week, then secretly taken to a similar facility in Texas.

Protesters at the gates of the jail in the heart of the Florida Everglades have recorded a number of instances of ambulances arriving and leaving.

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[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 12 points 3 months ago

IDK if it's COVID or bird flu or whatever. But just the constant ambulances don't really even need any kind of superbug. Part of the whole point of places like that is to pack people into overcrowded and dangerous conditions month after month, and not take care of them, so that disease can take care of them "naturally." That way you don't have to explain away any ovens or anything if it goes sideways and you wind up on trial later on.