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[spike at rainier66.com]

From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
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>…I do wonder just how many of the homeless really want to change.  If their addiction is strong, like as in heroin, and they are getting their fixes, they may put up with any conditions to keep things like they are.

>…Do the mentally ill, such as thousands of them in SF, get any treatment at all?  Spike?

 

bill w

 

I don’t know.  I am far from an authority on that Billw.  I now go into SF only to take a group of scouts hiking thru from the BART station to the wharf to catch a ferry to Angel Island, and even then, I keep everyone close and by sturdiest lads outboard.

 

You offered heroin as a strong addictive, but from what I hear, fentanyl is as bad to make new addicts and it is waaaaay less expensive, practically free now, the supply steady and inexhaustible.  I suspect it will put heroin out of business soon.  No need to grow all those poppies when fentanyl can be made in a lab with commonly-available constituents.  This cannot be controlled: fentanyl does not need to be made in Mexico.  

 

I don’t know much about the brand of mental illness not related to addiction.  I know less than Sam Cooke on that.  

 

I will offer an opinion: it is possible to house everyone and feed everyone, but not in the cities.  They pose a threat to the non-addicted mentally stable homeful.  The homeless, mentally ill and the addicts will need to be exported to safe housing way the heck out such as Termo California.  There is water there, plenty of room to set up Quonset huts by the thousands.  The cities have not been good for the mentally ill and addicts.

 

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