"The sports facilities are the detention/relocation camps..." ?

Brazil's World Cup Stadiums Reimagined as Affordable Housing
Monday, July 21, 2014
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- Brazil After The World Cup: Images Show What Billion-Dollar Stadiums Could Become
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Now that all the World Cup hoopla has ended and the millions of visitors to Brazil have bid farewell, the question remains: What will a country that spent $4 billion to renovate and build new soccer stadiums do with all that vacant space?

Some of the stadiums will still be used for soccer matches, but others have no obvious niche to fill now that the World Cup is over.

So a group of sustainable urban designers came up with a potential adaptive reuse: Using them as housing for the homeless and the displaced. Designers from 1week1project, an architectural think tank based in Paris and Santiago, say turning those stadiums into apartments for Brazil’s homeless would have the added effect of addressing the negative publicity Brazil generated for its exorbitant spending to upgrade its soccer infrastructure while social services languished -- and while 250,000 low-income people across Brazil were forcibly relocated or evicted from their homes to make way for new construction.

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CFR's Laurie Garrett Discusses West Africa's Ebola ...
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...We're not going to stop this unless we fundamentally get infected people away from the uninfected. It's as simple as that. [French NGO Doctors Without Borders (MSF)] has said, "We don't need a lot of fancy hospitals. What we need is to turn every single stadium and sports arena into a secure location that people cannot escape from, put cots in there, [provide] shade and protection from the rain, bring all the infected people into these spaces, and give them what little care we can." It's not a bad idea. The notion that we are going to build enough hospitals at the pace that we're going, to keep up with the spread, is absolute nonsense...


... Everybody is having a hard time facing up to the fact that something that sounds so morally repugnant is going to have to be the way out of this. Nobody wants to drag people out of their homes and dump them into a baseball stadium. It's been done before, [during the 1918 influenza epidemic], people [were quarantined in] movie theatres and hotels that were commandeered by public health authorities, to stop the spread of the disease.

We've wasted a lot of time focusing on the possibility of a technological solution. It would be nice if in a year, two years, three years from now, we have a vaccine and we have some kind of viable, curative medicine. But we don't now, and we're not going to stop this technologically...

Compare that line about the cots to this one from canada in ww2

BC’s Japanese Internment Camps
July 4, 2013
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...Men drove the family vehicles to a downtown Vancouver stadium, parked, handed their keys over to a white man, and entered the crowded, stinking stadium to wait with thousands of other Japanese to be taken away to camp...

also...


Monrovia soccer stadium to house Ebola centre: FIFA

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September 11, 2014

Geneva (AFP) - A large football stadium in Monrovia will be converted to house two large Ebola treatment units, FIFA said Thursday.

The international football federation said in a statement it was cooperating with the World Health Organisation to transform the Antoinette Tubman Stadium in the Liberian capital for use in the fight against the epidemic ravaging west Africa.

The stadium, which FIFA had donated to Liberia's Football Association, would "serve as the site for two urgently needed large-scale Ebola treatment units," it said.

"Today we can use the power of football to combat the Ebola epidemic," FIFA president Sepp Blatter said in the statement...

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FIFA to dip into solidarity fund to help Ebola-hit associations
12 September 2014
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...FIFA stressed that the additional financial support would "have to be spent in solidarity with a local United Nations (UN) initiative".

The announcement came as it emerged that the Antoinette Tubman Stadium in the Liberian capital Monrovia is to serve as the site for two large-scale Ebola treatment units, having been identified by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as the safest and most effective location...

and where are all these people going to stay?


'Ebola in Latin America could cause mass migration to US'
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Washington, Oct 8 (IANS/EFE): The head of the US Southern Command, General John Kelly, has said that if Ebola reaches Latin America, especially Central America or countries like Haiti, it could lead to mass migration to the US.

"If it comes to the Western Hemisphere, the countries that we are talking about have almost no ability to deal with it, especially Haiti and Central America," he said at a conference in the National Defense University in Washington Tuesday....
..."We're watching what AFRICOM is doing and their plan will be our plan," Kelly said.

might be a bit of a rehash...

SHOPPING MALLS AND SPORTS STADIUMS WILL SERVE AS IMPROMPTU EBOLA QUARANTINE ZONES
08 Oct, 2014 by Dave Hodges
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36,000 baseball fans penned in the stadium in Baltimore as Freddie Gray protests turned violent
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"This month's edition of Army/Aviation is disturbing to say the least."
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^ similar aircraft in this one, go to :42

Published on May 25, 2015
In a scene that could have been pulled from the movie Red Dawn, the Marines of Special-Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force-New York landed on the baseball diamond of the Orange Avenue School in New Jersey.
osprey aircraft at :42, just like this months cover of

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As conditions worsen, Greece promises ship to house refugees
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KOS, Greece (AP) - Locked in a sunbaked football stadium without food, drinking water or sanitation, about 1,000 refugees queued for hours on Wednesday to register with Greek authorities on the island of Kos, which is now at the forefront of a humanitarian crisis sweeping the financially broken country.

After sending police reinforcements, the government promised to charter a commercial ship to house up to 2,500 immigrants on the island where authorities have been overwhelmed by a spike in arrivals.

Alekos Flambouraris, an aide to the prime minister, said the vessel would be used to provide shelter and check documents. More details of the plan were to be announced Thursday, his office said.

The order to charter the ship was given after violence broke out in front of a police station on the holiday island, where migrants were lining up to receive temporary residence documents. A football stadium is currently being used to provide shelter for about 1,000 people.

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Tourist playground meets hectic refugee camp on Greek island
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august 2015

...Saleh said he spent nine hours on Monday waiting fruitlessly with several hundred others to be registered in an old football stadium that is now the island's main processing center. "There were four people doing the registration," he said. "Today there is just one."...

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aug 4 2015

State and municipal employees on Tuesday started preparing a site in Elaionas, western Athens, for the planned relocation of some 500 Afghan and Syrian refugees who have been living in a makeshift camp in Pedion tou Areos park in central Athens.

The 4-hectare plot, which belongs to City Hall, had been set aside for the construction of a soccer stadium.

Turkey Relocates Syrian Refugees to Stadium in Izmir
aug 12 2015
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VIENNA – Turkish authorities began to relocate Syrian refugees, who sleep in parks or the streets of the western province of Izmir, to a local sports stadium where they will wait for a chance to travel to Greece.
Syrian refugees in the city will be moved to the Izmir Ataturk Stadium in the town of Halkapinar before they are again relocated to refugee camps.

Syrian migrants rescued from certain death sent to camps
aug 12 2015
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Authorities rounded up hundreds of Syrians yesterday and Wednesday and bussed them to refugee camps along the Turkish-Syrian border.

A stadium in the city has been allocated as a gathering point for Syrians to speed up the process of their transfer to the camps. Officials checked the IDs of migrants staying outdoors and transferred them to the gathering point.

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