I was in San Francisco for about 1 hour last year before I saw multiple people asleep on the sidewalk downtown in the middle of a Sunday afternoon. I was there

I was in San Francisco for about 1 hour last year before I saw multiple people asleep on the sidewalk downtown in the middle of a Sunday afternoon. I was there about 16 hours before I watched a woman, a block from OpenAI, step out of a tent (in a row of tents and tarps) and squat immediately front of her tent, take a dump, and go back into her tent before I could walk 20 feet. Never in my 33 years of life at the time had I thought I'd witness such a thing, that's when I realized what I assumed was a police horse barn somewhere nearby (we have mounted police, and hansom cabs, in downtown Indianapolis) was the smell of human feces and urine, not road apples and hay. Then I started looking where I was walking and noticed brown smudge after brown smudge after brown lump. Saw a decent one outside of YC's SF office too maybe halfway down the block. Homeless people have to use the restroom, if they're homeless they don't have a toilet and are probably going to do it on the sidewalk or in an alley. This is how disease spreads.