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I’ve been in SF for a week.

I first visited SF in 1966, and I’ve been here many times since over the years. It’s still America’s most beautiful city, visually.

However, it’s deterioration, which has accelerated over the past ten years, is really astonishing.

Yes, there’s sh*t in the streets, but they are keeping up by cleaning overnight. But the number of psychotic people wandering the streets has never been higher. No shoes, open sores, constant babbling - it’s like a scene out of a horror movie.

And it’s dirty - really dirty. And I lived in Brooklyn in the 1970s. It’s worse than that.

Going back to the White Mountains Saturday. Can’t wait.

But the number of psychotic people wandering the streets has never been higher. No shoes, open sores, constant babbling - it’s like a scene out of a horror movie.

Ideas on why it is so prevalent now?

What is wrong with us as a country that we can’t take freedom away from our mentally ill who can’t function? Even with drug addicts among them. We need to keep them somewhere safe, NOT ON OUR STREETS! it isn’t good for us or them. This is really a poor way to care for our mentally ill. They need to have their freedom curtailed the way ad adult with special needs or a parent with severe Alzheimer’s is. We can’t let this keep happening.