Mapping San Francisco's Human Waste Challenge
The human waste and needles on the street are intimately related in my mind.<p>Step 1: People start shooting up in public bathrooms, and then passing out on the toilets<p>Step 2: Public bathrooms are closed due to the drug problem found in step 1<p>Step 3: Now everyone begins shitting in the street because public bathrooms are no longer available. And those people shooting up in the bathrooms are also shooting up on the street.<p>In those public bathrooms that remain, you typically see needle disposal containers; sometimes in every stall. In Seattle on Sunday, I went to the bathroom in Macy&#x27;s and every stall had them and I&#x27;m pretty sure 3 of the stalls were occupied by people doing drugs.<p>The obvious answer is supervised injection sites where people can safely shoot up, which would then allow public restrooms to reopen and not be constantly occupied by people with needles. Unfortunately, the republican party at the national level has worked to actively prevent SF from opening these sites. So, the author, a prominent republican, should maybe consider telling his party&#x27;s national apparatus to get out of the way of SF fixing their local problems rather than his weird nonsensical admonition at the end.