What about the homeless etc?

BBC article says their gov't says maybe the homeless need to "self isolate"

 Proposed new laws, reportedly giving the police the power to arrest anyone with the virus not self-isolating indoors, will be published this week. She warned rough sleepers could be "disproportionately affected" by this.

but what about homeless shelters? How do hotels ventilate their air (Legionier's disease was because the water in the air conditioner was contaminated, but could air from one room go to another room, as happened in SARS?)

will the disease spread likewise through crowded apartment buildings and slum housing?

What about those in prisons?

And then there is the problem of the military.

This StrategyPage article from Feb has a lot of stuff about China, including this snippet about those well publicized hospitals that they constructed: but the military couldn't or wouldn't staff them.

February 19, 2020: In Hubei province, two new field hospitals the army created in record time (less than ten days near Wuhan, the provincial capital have not been used much, if at all...

It turned out that the army was unable to deliver all the military medical personnel to staff in both hospitals. Some of the soldiers who built the hospitals came down with the virus and army leaders realized that their medical personnel would be needed at army hospitals if the virus hit a large number of military personnel or immediate family.

and keep medical personnel in your prayers, because if China's experience is repeated, a lot of them will catch the disease:

Wuhan could not spare any medical personnel because over 3,000 local doctors and nurses had come down with the disease and most were still being treated while over a hundred had died. Most of these medical casualties were in Hubei and Wuhan.

in the meanwhile, here in the Philippines, Manila is sealed off.
except for urgent errands.

How urgent it it?

Large gatherings like church services, movies and cockfighting are prohibited 

(italics mine)

you know it's serious when men can't go to the local cockfights.

also offices are closed:

and most government work in executive department offices is suspended until April 14. School closures, originally up to April 12, were extended up to April 14.

people with mild symptoms that test positive will be kept at home in quarantine.

the gov't is following the Chinese model on isolating communities.

following the Korean model that relies on testing and isolating those who test positive is a problem because of the lack of tests and the one week delay in getting results.

other reasons to worry: 

The poor are often in close contact with each other in small houses. And unlike the USA, where food can be stored in freezers etc. most people here shop for food every day in the local palenke. (which is often "open air", so presumably less dangerous than the indoor grocery store, but probably less hygienic).

My maid's godmother in Manila died (she's been very sick from a stroke) and she claimed it was Wuhan flu, but I personally doubt it. There are the usual viruses going around: we have been asked for money to help neighbors asking for donations for sick kids with asthma/bronchitis. And with the "tag init", i.e. hot season, the deaths from high blood pressure get worse.

Sigh. 

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update: The food kiosks and Palenke are open but the Monday morning Palenke vendors are not here (i.e. shut down the big market).

presumably the larger stores for groceries etc are still open.