<story><title>Last year, more people in San Francisco died of overdoses than of Covid-19</title><url>https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/05/15/last-year-more-people-in-san-francisco-died-of-overdoses-than-of-covid-19</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>baby</author><text>I live here and to anyone who doesn’t know san francisco this might help explain why I am not surprised (and probably anyone living here isn’t as well):&lt;p&gt;- Everybody wears a mask here. Everyone. Even vaccinated people and children. It’s taken extremely seriously. And I’m not even talking about social distancing. Everything has been closed since the beginning of the virus and indoor dining is merely re-opening.&lt;p&gt;- san francisco has the largest homeless population I’ve seen in the world (and I’ve traveled and lived in a bit everywhere in the world including many poor countries). On top of that, drug is hitting homeless people hard. It’s extremely common to see someone shooting themselves with a syringe here.</text></comment>
<story><title>Last year, more people in San Francisco died of overdoses than of Covid-19</title><url>https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/05/15/last-year-more-people-in-san-francisco-died-of-overdoses-than-of-covid-19</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dehrmann</author><text>For an article that doesn&amp;#x27;t focus on SF, that&amp;#x27;s an odd headline, and not a big surprise for anyone who&amp;#x27;s seen the Civic Center Bart station: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=5gT5NULvRSk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=5gT5NULvRSk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;SF is an oddity because of its homeless problem, open-air drug market, not being too concerned with either, but being incredibly concerned over covid, so this outcome isn&amp;#x27;t surprising.</text></comment>