Nature has a natural ability to correct things over time. Structures that are abandoned will eventually be reclaimed by the Earth. Angkor Wat is one such example.
Unless something is done, eventually Angkor Wat will vanish. Ignore something long enough and nature will step in. Right now San Francisco and New York are ignoring a major problem.
In July a medical association canceled its meeting in San Francisco
San Francisco’s spiraling homelessness and opioid crisis is starting to drive away business and tourists, and a $40million medical convention has cancelled after its attendees complained they were too scared to walk the streets alone.
DailyMail.com’s shocking photos of San Francisco, on Tuesday, capture a city in turmoil; with homeless people passed out on the sidewalks, shooting up in the streets and begging for survival.
The issue has become so dire that Chicago-based organizers of a five-day, semi-annual medical convention, which attracts around 15,000 people and pumps $40 million into the local economy, have announced they are moving the event to Los Angeles.
They are blaming the appalling state of San Francisco’s streets where open drug use and threatening behavior are now common.
Post-convention surveys also found the city’s rocketing levels of homelessness and people suffering from serious mental illness on the streets, meant some members were afraid to leave their hotel. One board member was assaulted near Moscone Center last year.
And there are fears that this cancellation could be the tip of the iceberg.
Indeed. There are actually “poop map” apps to help visitors negotiate the area.
Homelessness and drug use are rampant. Be careful where you step!
There are more attractions than ever
Outside the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in downtown San Francisco, a woman urinates on the sidewalk and smokes a crack pipe.
Inside her purse are about a dozen used heroin needles. She shoots heroin up to 10 times per day, she says.
About 50 yards away, a man injects another woman in the neck with a needle. She puts her thumb in her mouth and blows on it to make her vein more visible. Her right arm is caked with dried blood.
This San Francisco neighborhood is home to the headquarters of Uber, Twitter and Salesforce. But stroll around here, and you’re also likely to find used drug paraphernalia, trash, and human excrement on the sidewalks, and people lying in various states of consciousness.
Public drug usage and homelessness are not new problems for the city of San Francisco. But residents say the situation has gotten worse in recent years. As of October, 7,500 complaints about discarded needles have been made this year, compared with 6,363 last year. In 2015, the number was less than 3,000.
You can find some seriously good documentation here.
The San Francisco Mayoral alumni list includes some notables, including Dianne Feinstein, Willie Brown and Gavin Newsome. This is their legacy. The city has not had a Republican Mayor since 1964. democrats have utterly failed to learn a basic economic principle.
You continue that which you subsidize.
Plastic straws can see you jailed, but SF hands out nearly four and a half million free needles each year. And now there are “safe injection sites.”
It makes you proud.
The consequence of this squalor and liberal depravity is Hepatitis A, which is already at the edge of a full blown epidemic
California’s outbreak of hepatitis A, already the nation’s second largest in the last 20 years, could continue for many months, even years, health officials said Thursday.
At least 569 people have been infected and 17 have died of the virus since November in San Diego, Santa Cruz and Los Angeles counties, where local outbreaks have been declared.
Dr. Monique Foster, a medical epidemiologist with the Division of Viral Hepatitis at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told reporters Thursday that California’s outbreak could linger even with the right prevention efforts.
“It’s not unusual for them to last quite some time — usually over a year, one to two years,” Foster said.
That forecast has worried health officials across the state, even in regions where there haven’t yet been cases.
Many are beginning to offer vaccines to their homeless populations, which are considered most at risk. Doctors say that people with hepatitis A could travel and unknowingly infect people in a new community, creating more outbreaks.
California is a sanctuary state. That means sanctuary for illegal aliens, already compromised by disease.
It’s quite a combustible mixture.
As democrats continue to exist in denial, don’t be surprised if nature steps in. Meanwhile, people are well advised to stay away.
‘I come from a third world country and it is not as bad as this,’ one tourist told KPIX.
Another said things are so bad you ‘can smell it’.
A report earlier this year by NBC Bay Area journalists found 100 drug needles and more than 300 piles of human feces during a survey of 153 blocks of downtown San Francisco.
If stuck by a used needle, one can be infected with diseases like HIV or Hepatitis. Fecal matter is also not just a smelly nuisance. As it dries, the germs become airborne and if inhaled, can prove deadly – especially for children.
Infectious disease expert Dr. Lee Riley warned the city was dirtier than some slums in India and Brazil.
‘The contamination is… much greater than communities in Brazil or Kenya or India,’ the UC Berkeley professor said.
impressive. Some might even say “sh*thole.”
Not to be outdone, Bill De Blasio hotly pursues this same strategy for New York City
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to have junkies toss their used syringes into special receptacles has failed to clean up drug-infested parks, and the bins are serving more as suggestion boxes — spreading the message that the city is OK with them shooting up there.
Official statistics obtained by The Post from the first six months of de Blasio’s controversial program show that parks in the Bronx are still littered with dangerous hypodermic needles, with nearly 60,000 found on the ground compared with just 7,000 in Hizzoner’s 44 locked containers.
Even worse, the green metal bins are seen as a welcome mat for druggies to take over the parks, said one addict who openly injected himself in St. Mary’s Park in the Bronx Thursday morning with what he said was a speedball of heroin and cocaine.
“They’re giving permission with that box,” said Javier Martinez, 32.
“Kids don’t come here. They don’t build anything for them like a playground. If they don’t want us doing drugs, why are they putting the boxes here?”
For some reason, Sodom and Gomorrah pops into my mind.
DrJohn has been a health care professional for more than 30 years. In addition to clinical practice he has done extensive research and has published widely with over 70 original articles and abstracts in the peer-reviewed literature. DrJohn is well known in his field and has lectured on every continent except for Antarctica. He has been married to the same wonderful lady for over 30 years and has three kids- two sons, both of whom are attorneys and one daughter on her way into the field of education.
DrJohn was brought up with the concept that one can do well if one is prepared to work hard but nothing in life is guaranteed.
Except for liberals being foolish.
Reminds me of my childhood in the bronx by Fordham Rd, East Tremont… a redhead in the bronx…
They used to write romantic songs about this city, guess that was before the Democrats dragged it down and turned it into the reflections of their minds. A true Democrat Utopia.
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair it might cover some of the stench
San Francisco has a relatively minor homeless population problem, compared with New York or Los Angeles. One of the most significant underlying issues is mental illness, estimated to affect around 45 percent of the nation’s homeless population.
The average monthly cost of an apartment in San Francisco is $3,500.
The closest I have come to experiencing anything like this was a week my wife and I spent in San Antonio for our anniversary. San Antonio is one of those perpetually liberal cities with Democrat mayors, notably Julian Castro, Democrat Presidential candidate. San Antonio is, of course, a sanctuary city, though they are banned in Texas. We were there in the summer; every door stoop smelled like piss. I didn’t see any piles of dung, though.
San Francisco sounds like Venezuela with wealthy spectators.
I spent two days in San Francisco over some 50 years ago when they were still normal
@Greg: Greg, you can always be counted on to toe the left’s party line. I have to go to SF almost every week. There are thousands of homeless, broken people everywhere downtown and it is spilling over into the neighborhoods. The smell of pot is everywhere. There are people openly crapping in makeshift toilets in many places and otherwise, in the street between the cars. The City gives them money and pretends to provide services, but the money goes to the drug dealers and the problem continues to worsen. Over 30,000 cars were broken into last year and there is no enforcement. It gets worse and worse in one of the highest taxed states in the country. The same process is destroying LA, San Diego and San Jose. Diseased broken people who are getting no effective help in the name of civil liberties. It is pitiful, but these folks have rights, don’t they? The right to destroy civilization and that is exactly what is going on.
Disturber
Only visits to SF were on business. The “City By The Bay” was quite nice. Had a lovely hotel room downtown and the restaurants were plentiful and the food delicious. Walking around was delightful. So many nice and unusual sites…
The year was 1983.
I was in San Francisco in 1993 and saw the dirtiest human being I have ever seen in my life. That was down by the piers, not in a mine.
It’s amazing to see the Left’s blindness to the logical consequences of their own policies.
They rewarded it so they got more of it.
I met a contractor in SLC who wasted 40 years trying to convert an old meatpacking plant in SF into condos.
40 YEARS of permits, inspections, fees, the policies shifting from one year to the next, worries about “environmental impacts, etc.
In SLC he bought a property with an old building on it, demolished it then started building all in 2 years!
Will he ever try to help SF get more affordable housing built?
He says he’s too old to try to start.
@Nan G: The wealthy liberals in San Francisco, who created this mess, can avoid it entirely, so they don’t care.
OK, Greg. You’ve made the charge, now explain to us why.
@Bill H, #12:
It isn’t a charge, it’s a simple fact. I didn’t speculate as to why this might be.
I will observe that people generally aren’t willing to pay such large amounts to live in a sewer, so there would appear to be something seriously wrong with that characterization.
@Greg: Because there are parts of San Francisco where cleanliness is maintained. This is for the wealthy liberals. One wonders why these wealthy liberals, who I am sure subscribe to the thought that wealth not provided for the People’s use is wealth wasted, do not contribute MORE to the homeless and cleaning up a once spectacular city? Could they be lying, hypocritical, greedy pigs?
This guy is so convinced that Trump fits the description that he wrote a book about it. He is even more uncivil than Trump, but far more articulate.
We live in sad times.
@Greg: Funny how that moron thinks all the problems began only in the last 2 years.
History proves him so wrong but he might not look at the root of problems he sees, just look for a whipping boy.
Every major city is controlled by Democratic machines. Every such city is deteriorating and has the same problems. Every Democratic mayor thinks the solution is to tax more and spend more yet the problems keep getting worse. There is something wrong with the Democratic perspective. QED
@Disturber: Just take 1 good look at their city regulations, on small businesses. Some one who could make a living by say…fixing stuff general handy man, the unions cant have that, so they pay ie donate to campaign the local pols to slip in a rule maybe 10 rules and/or huge fees to prevent free enterprise competition. Even say they cant work unless they join the union.
So that tax payer moves elsewhere.
@Greg: I didn’t say it wasn’t a fact. I asked YOU specifically WHY an average apartment in San Francisco is $3500.00/month. I have every confidence you can explain it to me.
@Disturber: Cities like San Francisco do everything they can to make the situation worse. Being a sanctuary city, for example, draws poor, destitute illegal immigrants to the city and multiply the tax burden in addition to contributing to the problems. Even when those who know better try to force them to stop killing themselves by luring in and protecting the elements that cause them harm, they follow their liberal instincts to do whatever makes the problems worse.
@Bill H, #19:
Why? I’m no authority on the real estate market, nor do I live in San Francisco.
You should be able to figure out that there might be a correlation between very high average apartment rental costs and homelessness. This does not require specialized knowledge. Only common sense.
@Greg: Right, because if you can’t afford $3500, you have to be homeless. $2500 a month, and you’d be fine..because these people work and have incomes….*sarcasm*…oh wait, they don’t.
No, the cost of rent has nothing to do with homelessness, and it’s pretty pathetic that you just made that up in the moment…to derail the point of the article.
Homeless people can’t afford any amount of rent…not $3500, nor $500. That’s a fact. If they had some place to go, they’d go. That’s a fact.
Any more bogus made up garbage you want to embarrass yourself on?
@Nathan Blue:Offering sanctuary without the ability to house them or give them work or place to be sanitary. Spreading lice and disease. Much of the trash flows through storm drains and wind up along the bay’s shore. More than 70 Bay Area cities from Fairfield to Los Gatos . San Francisco Bay is choked with trash. Every time it rains, trash from freeways and busy state roads, like El Camino Real and San Pablo Avenue, pours through storm drains into creeks ends up in the bay. The plastic recycles end up in Asia where they end up in the ocean. They are an eco hot mess, as always good intentions bad management.
@Nathan Blue, #22:
People could probably make enough money panhandling in cities less expensive than San Francisco to keep a roof over their heads. Consider the following, from an article that lists the 10 least expensive U.S. cities to live in:
A $1,200 per month Social Security check could easily pay the rent in less costly cities, but leave one homeless in San Francisco.
@Greg: You were the one to blithely toss that fact out where it had nothing to do with the article. I naturally assumed you had something of substance to say. I see now that isn’t the case. You failed, Greg, but thanks for playing.
@Bill H, #25:
That someone can’t or won’t grasp the relevance of a particular fact or observation doesn’t mean that it has none.