The shooting happened after the Department of Homeland Security sent more than 2,000 ICE agents to the Twin Cities in the "largest DHS operation ever."
Unlike in a sane country, this can be damn close to a death sentence. 11% of Americans have diabetes and can just straight up die when they lose access to insulin. Hospitals do not give any service beyond emergency care if you’re uninsured, God forbid you need something like regular dialysis. Homeless services are barely existent and are stretched to the limit already; unhoused people have something like a 3.5x mortality rate. If you spiral and lose your housing you’re statistically taking 20 years off of your life.
And of course some people are still taking that risk. I hope people in a safer position read this as a call to action. If you have stable housing, good health and have transportation to a state capital you’re in a better situation to act than the majority of Americans.
Just to add on for the people in the back:
Unlike in a sane country, this can be damn close to a death sentence. 11% of Americans have diabetes and can just straight up die when they lose access to insulin. Hospitals do not give any service beyond emergency care if you’re uninsured, God forbid you need something like regular dialysis. Homeless services are barely existent and are stretched to the limit already; unhoused people have something like a 3.5x mortality rate. If you spiral and lose your housing you’re statistically taking 20 years off of your life.
And of course some people are still taking that risk. I hope people in a safer position read this as a call to action. If you have stable housing, good health and have transportation to a state capital you’re in a better situation to act than the majority of Americans.
Heck, if you’re managing to live paycheck to paycheck without saddling up on CC debt, then you’re doing better than 50% of the people here.