Writes Michael Shellenberger in his new book, San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities:įor decades researchers have documented much higher levels of mental illness and substance abuse among the homeless than in the rest of the population. And it is this heartbreaking addiction that fuels much of the homelessness crisis. These are heartbreaking scenes, but scenes we must not turn a blind eye to lest the situation grow worse than it already is. In 2018, this shocking video went viral, showing addicts using drugs at the San Francisco Civic Center BART Station: “They can stay that way for hours.” Said another, “It’s like the land of the living dead.” Michael Shellenberger, San Fransicko, pages 7-8 “We call it the heroin freeze,” said one local. In 2018, footage of dozens of people slumped over in an entrance to a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station, many with needles in their arm, went viral. Only it’s not a virus or a curse turning people into walking shells of their former selves – it’s drug addiction.īetween 20, the number of calls made to San Francisco’s 311 line complaining of used hypodermic needles on sidewalks, in parks, and elsewhere rose from 224 to 6,275. The likelihood of a zombie apocalypse like the ones portrayed in movies and TV shows is slim to say the least, but in the slums of some of America’s largest cities, it seems the apocalypse is already upon us. It’s both fun and terrifying to entertain: How would you survive in a world overrun by decaying, flesh-eating monsters? From “Night of the Living Dead” in 1968 to AMC’s “The Walking Dead,” Hollywood storytellers have been enthralled by capturing the nightmarish fiction of zombies for decades.
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