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Originally Posted by keep poppin pimples
can you provide some details here? vancouver has a very high standard of living.
so i'm guessing when you say below some third world countries.... you must be comparing a homeless person in vancouver to an average person in the third world? that doesn't make sense
i definitely agree that being homeless and having hiv is pretty shitty, but anytime you compare canada to some third world countries you're talking out of yr ass. i'm not even from a third world country and i've seen plenty of people who would do anything to live as well as a far below-average person in canada (i'm saying 'i've seen' if you take out the actual observation part, i'm assuming the majority of the world population falls into that category)
it seems really sensationalist to me, can you point me to a country where the homeless live well? if no then i don't really see it as canada being shittier than anywhere else, although this particular country at least has the resources to fix those problems, assuming rich pricks ever decide it's worth it, in the third world they can't realistically fix any of their problems, because they're caused mostly by foreign exploitation, and because nato would free the fuck out of them if there was any whimper in the government of perhaps telling the world bank to fuck off
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as i work with the homeless, drug addicted and downtrodden i can say that it certainly sounds as if your 'talking out of your ass'. the hiv rate is astounding in this city as is the hep c infection rate. thanks to places like insite that has dropped, as has the overdose death rate. vancouver has the richest and the poorest.
perhaps you should come check it out and see for yourself before making knee jerk reactions that point out your obvious lack of knowledge on the subject. but hey this is the sy gossip forum.
At an estimated 40%, the HIV infection rate in the Downtown Eastside is the highest in the industrialised world, on par with the impoverished African nation of Botswana.