Yep. Can’t wear sandals anywhere either for fear of stepping into a used needle and contracting something.

Counter-point: every fourth person wearing Birkenstocks this weekend.

Counter-counter-point, of course you'll see people in open footwear but in many busy, populated areas (especially near where people work) such as around market, civic center, soma you'll see needles and feces everywhere. Open toed shoes near those things is probably unadvisable

That's not a counter-point, it's movement of goalposts.

I stepped on a piece of metal in FiDi and in my limp to the ER to get it removed I thought long and hard about how much I like wearing sandals and what works have happened if that was a needle. I don't anymore in the city.

This is also Fleet Week, when you have people coming in from the suburbs and out-of-town who won't be as prepared.

I don’t understand what this proves other than the individual risk tolerance of every fourth person you saw this weekend.

At this point it's strange how the property price in SF haven't been affected by a homeless population almost as large as the housed population.

I haven't been to SF anytime recent, but upon visiting New York I found that McDonalds there doesn't have _anything_ within public reach, no fountains, no trays, not even napkins, and I imagine that is totally justified judging by the amount of homeless people residing in/around it. It would be a nightmarish place to live and I'm surprised people would pay so much for properties in these environments.

It’s a gold rush town. People put up with a lot when there’s billions to be made.