Where is the love? Candid street shot of a rough sleeper, Bath

            A worker from a Sainsbury's Local Supermarket in Bath city centre (outside which this was taken) comes out for a vape, her eyes glued to her phone, ignoring the obvious to her side as it has evidently become so usual for her.  

Through the window, a security guard is just doing his business, his back turned to the suffering....

There's a living breathing body there under that duvet. 

I am not picking on this lady at all, or the security man, and she or he may well care for this person or others like them at another time, I really don't know and cannot assume just by this scene, and I don't want others to assume either, but nonetheless, this picture captures something of today's society: rough sleeping is so common now everywhere in the UK, that people practically tread over other people's bodies as they go about their business, wrapped up in themselves, heads in their phones on "social media"....

Is this Compassion Fatigue or what?  Or because of the British media demonising the poor which they did relentlessly until the pandemic when they suddenly changed their tune when "normal" people suddenly found themselves falling on hard times? I don't know but it never was as bad as this before.

As the Black Eyed Peas sang, 'Where is the Love'? Or as ex-British PM Boris Johnson sang (of anyone else but the elite): 'Let the Bodies Pile up'.

We also have the ironic, almost slap in the face, juxtaposition of the lottery signs boasting of winning 10k a month adding insult to injury ....

Taken in: UK / England / Bath (show map)

Taken on: February 10, 2023

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