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'Inside San Francisco's open air drug market that proves why city's woke effort to connect homeless addicts to rehab is NOT working - as users shoot up, pass out and scatter their needles
2022-01-26
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • The new linkage center, aimed at connecting homeless addicts with rehab facilities, opened on January 18

  • The center is located at 1172 Market Street at the United Nations Plaza in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco and is equipped to serve up to 100 people at a time

  • Photos taken by DailyMail.com show an illicit drug consumption site that is now littered with needles and crowded with addicts shooting up in broad daylight

  • San Francisco never approved the creation of a supervised consumption site at the linkage center and the site is in violation of state and federal laws

  • The open air drug market was first reported on by journalist Michael Shellenberger, who said in his Substack blog that he'd witnessed a drug deal and blatant drug use at the site

  • The center is part of Mayor London Breed's Tenderloin Emergency Intervention plan to address public drug use and overdose deaths in the neighborhood

  • Breed generated national news media coverage last December when she announced the crackdown on open air drug use in the downtown Tenderloin neighborhood

  • In addition to helping connect people with service, the center will also help people living on the streets get access to basic things like food, water, bathrooms, showers and laundry

  • The center operates seven seven days a week between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., with limited staff due to the impact of COVID-19. However, the center will expand to operate 24 hours a day and 7 days a week
Related:
Tenderloin: 2021-12-25 San Francisco leaders approve mayor's emergency plan to combat crime, drugs in Tenderloin area
Tenderloin: 2021-12-21 Dems Admit Reality Too Late
Tenderloin: 2021-12-18 San Fran Mayor Breed: State of Emergency in Tenderloin District
Posted by:Skidmark

#14  A literal shithole.
BINASH. More like ALSH.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2022-01-26 06:48  

#13  What's the word?
Thunderbird.
What's the price?
90 twice.
Who drinks the most?
(We're not going there)
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-01-26 06:24  

#12  Cognoscenti prefer Tito's

Mad Dog for the faithful.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2022-01-26 06:23  

#11  Homeless COVID Remedy [insert doctor's illegible scrawl stating the following:]

Inject intravenously Communal HighHorse Supplement 7x daily
Take bowel movemts 2x daily & smear shoes + trousers w/ same
Assume semi-supine position on a warm concrete purpose for at least 6hrs of sunshine daily
Empty urethra frequently. H2O one's habitat thoroughly 6x daily.

Optional: early morning + evening application of MassMommy Scream Therapy. Add obscenities as desired for extra effect.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2022-01-26 06:21  

#10  
survived because he drank Sterno.

Cognoscenti prefer Tito's
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843   2022-01-26 06:15  

#9  Ironically, Michael Crichton saw it coming. The old man in Andromeda Strain survived because he drank Sterno. The baby survived because it never stopped crying.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-01-26 06:10  

#8  Correction: No virus can possibly compete with that.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843   2022-01-26 06:07  

#7  Have the good people of the SF Bay Area been secretly using their own special Homeless COVID Remedy?

Squeeze

Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-01-26 06:06  

#6  
Homeless COVID Remedy

Start by checking that stuff the "homeless" leave all along the sidewalks of San Francisco. No virus can possibly with that!
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843   2022-01-26 06:06  

#5  Funny you should ask, M.

Early in the scamdemic, curious minds at Stanford and elsewhere noticed that, despite San Francisco being full of Chinese and shuttling thousands of Chinese and others directly from SFO to Wuhan and other Chinese cities each week -- despite this direct exposure to the virus, far from wiping out the homeless, not a single case of COVID among the army of homeless in SF was registered.

Curiouser and curiouser: hardly any of the SF Bay Area's other residents were dying, either. The fatality rate remains one of the lowest of any major city in the advanced world.

Have the good people of the SF Bay Area been secretly using their own special Homeless COVID Remedy? Curious minds want to know.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2022-01-26 06:02  

#4  It would be interesting to know what the vaxx rate is among the cohort that will inject anything. The COVID case rate? The "die with / of COVID rate? I mean, it's not like IV drug abuse compromises the immune system.

/snark
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-01-26 05:36  

#3  It's literally an enormous camp, a squatters' village, of plastic homemade shanties 'housing' a city-within-a-city of deranged and wretched addict-bums.

With police sentries at the entrance.

It's150m away from, and directly facing across a flat little park with its pretty little arcade of pollarded Paris Tuileries-style style plane trees, the seat of government for the other city, San Francisco's City Hall.

This is where tourist buses roll up. Where Governor Brylcream, Madam Pelosi and other worthies literally rolled out a red carpet last month for the wedding of the Getty oil fortune heiress.

The Republic of Shit, Heroin Needles and Tourette's Screamers.

Welcome to Dystopia.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2022-01-26 05:31  

#2  They voted for this.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-01-26 05:06  

#1  A literal shithole.

California used to be a proud Republican stronghold. Ronald Reagan came from California. Now look at it. Shit and dirty needles on the sidewalks.
Posted by: Sheter the Lesser9291   2022-01-26 05:03  

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