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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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[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

When super COVID is leaked into the general pop can we name it after the orange turnip?

[–] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 15 points 3 months ago
[–] 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.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

LOL. Duh.

Release the Trump/Epstein files

[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

Concentration Camps are not known for promoting health and wellness.

[–] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 8 points 3 months ago

This feels like the starting point of a zombie novel.

[–] jontree255@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This by design. They want people to die there. Don’t have to build gas chambers if disease does the job.

[–] bathing_in_bismuth@sh.itjust.works -1 points 3 months ago

Ah yes, the old "they want them to die there, that's why all the ambulances are there". Normally I'd say give me what you are smoking but in this case I see it would only make me retarded.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 6 points 3 months ago

Oh, so these nazis don't need gas chambers they'll just let the diseases kill everyone. Great.

Old habits die hard, devils advocate and all, but with ambulances arriving and leaving they are getting a better treatment then most of the US.