Most of those homeless folks are institutionalized in a very real, albeit virtual way. They're being held in chemical restraints and they're being continually m

Most of those homeless folks are institutionalized in a very real, albeit virtual way. They're being held in chemical restraints and they're being continually monitored by clinicians when they do mandatory check-ins and doctor visits. The clinicians are also alerted, and swoop in, upon word of legal trouble or health crises. The effects of medications will encourage patients to act out, decompensate, commit acts of self-harm and violence upon others. The strategy is to get them jailed or cause serious bodily harm/death, because... Well let's just say that the incentives are perverse. Whereas lunatics of old wore visible chains and straitjackets, and were mercifully housed, fed, and clothed, now they are largely on their own, sink or swim; hope some other human family member cares enough to pick up the pieces.