<p class="p1"><span class="s1">With no end to the housing crisis in sight, California’s record-breaking homeless population has created a sanitary crisis that is pushing investors out of the city and threatening public health. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">This week, a Twitter user uploaded a photo of a homeless man pooping in a Safeway aisle. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">“Cleanup in Aisle 3!” tweeted John Dennis, a Republican running against Nancy Pelosi in next year’s primary elections. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">“I publicly warned in 2018 that if we let people violate our streets the homeless problem would get worse. The answer: Arrest, then offer a choice: jail or rehab.” </span></p>
<p class="p1"><strong><span class="s1">If this habit catches on, there’s no telling the effect on grocery chains and their employees.</span></strong></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">The human waste problem is so bad that San Francisco has established a “poop patrol” to respond to complaints. The patrol has received more than 25,000 complaints so far this year. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">“Isn’t it ironic that a city of germaphobes, of exercise-conscious, environmentally conscious…are now in a city that’s awash in human waste?” asks <em>Fox News</em> medical correspondent Dr. Marc Siegel. </span><span class="s1">“Big outbreaks of hepatitis A, rats in the streets feeding off the garbage in sewage, typhus, typhoid fever, rotten bacterial infections, and even the plague may be coming.”</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">To prevent an outbreak of “medieval diseases,” adds Siegel, California must “offer bathroom facilities in temporary shelters, get costs, get food. This is what has to happen.”</span></p>
<p class="p1"><em><span class="s1">Estimates suggest there are roughly 9,700 homeless in San Francisco and about 130,000 in the state.</span></em></p>