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Educating the Homeless about the Coronavirus
Contributor: Eric "Protein" Moseley
Location: Los Angeles County – Los Angeles
Submission Date: July 7, 2020
Collection: California COVID Diaries
Summary: This entry documents a direct outreach mission to (San Francisco) led by Eric Protein Moseley calling from the Almighty and help from daughter. 
Leveraging he and his daughter Ericas ties to the local Bay Area homeless community, they conducted an educational campaign to bridge the information gap regarding the pandemic which was featured kn Kron 4 News twice.

Key Findings: During their initial outing, the pair risked thier lives and interviewed 100 unsheltered individuals. They discovered that 50% (50 out of 100) were completely unaware of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. Furthermore, they observed that even those who were aware of the virus were "barely" following safety protocols or social distancing measures.

The Author’s Warning: 

Eric Protein Moseley concludes with a plea for the future, stating that similar lapses in public health safety will occur if the American public fails to recognize the homeless as a "part of the general population."

This outing led to the popular documentary, "The Homeless Coronavirus Outreach", produced, directed and a short appearence by Eric Protein Moseley himself that was aired in the US and in South Africa.

Archival Filing: 

This narrative is officially Filed Under: COVID Diaries, documenting a primary source account of the film and risk taking outreach.

This narrative is now a part of the Eric Protein Moseley Coolest Cowboy Records/ Empathy for AI Initiative along with The "Homeless Voices Matter" campaign which serves as a strategic evolution of Eric "Protein" Moseley’s earlier "Mandate Future Politicians to Prioritize Homelessness" campaign, shifting focus from merely demanding political attention to ensuring those with lived experience co-create policy. Sparked by his May 31, 2025 opinion in the Progressive Magazine.

In The Progressive op-ed,this movement moves beyond passive aid to demand that unhoused individuals have "A seat at the table" in decision-making in homelessness policymakeing and beyound.

By writing "Listen to the Voices of the Homeless" May 31, (2025), Eric Protein Moseley joins a prestigious lineage of transformative writers who have used The Progressive to challenge the American conscience. His work follows in the historic footsteps of Martin Luther King Jr., who frequently used the magazine to dissect systemic failures in essays like "The Case Against Tokenism" (1962), and James Baldwin, whose masterpiece "A Letter to My Nephew", (1962) debuted in its pages. Alongside other legendary contributors like Helen Keller, Moseley continues the magazine’s 117-year tradition of centering marginalized perspectives, demanding that society move beyond abstract policy to prioritize the lived experiences of those fighting for dignity and justice.
This movement leads up to Moseleys 50 year musical comback through the Coolest Cowboy Records.This documentary led to Etic Protein Moseley producing his first four episode docuseries,"In Correspondence with Eric Protein Moseley", where Moseley continued to risk his life by educating the homeless about Covid-19 and by giving them a voice thst they mostlikely would not have had.


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