I just had a little back-and-forth with a guy on Reddit yesterday, who told me how safe supply saved his life. He has a job, he has a wife and siblings who love him. He got prescribed painkillers after a surgery and almost lost everything. And now he’s got his life back.
So frankly, 🤷♀️. I’m kind of sick of politicians trying to tell me that people aren’t worth saving.
I really wish that PG RCMP via Wright had come to the table with statistics instead of an anecdote from one person (who may very well be experiencing the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon, where someone notices things once they start thinking of them - the reason I began seeing Nissan Muranos everywhere once I bought one for myself, statistically the same number of Muranos were driving the streets in town and I just happened to be paying attention to them more). And of course, news and politicians are going to cling to that statistically-unfounded anecdote instead of sharing the actual, much smaller, numbers of safe supply prescriptions being diverted to the illegal market. UGH >:(
But they're legal, addictive, people smoke outside my office during their breaks (and still have to be reminded to shuffle away from the doors and air intakes), and cigarettes injure and kill people and we collect taxes on their sale, and pay for that healthcare through taxes when smokers need it. And people *still* smoke, a fairly significant number depending where you live in Canada and in BC, and the number is much higher up here in central and northern BC. Smoking is more significant than open drug use, Todd. There were an estimated 322,000 smokers in BC in 2020. Vilifying doesn't seem to be helping given that smoking rates stopped declining a few years ago and plateaued.
I just had a little back-and-forth with a guy on Reddit yesterday, who told me how safe supply saved his life. He has a job, he has a wife and siblings who love him. He got prescribed painkillers after a surgery and almost lost everything. And now he’s got his life back.
So frankly, 🤷♀️. I’m kind of sick of politicians trying to tell me that people aren’t worth saving.
I really wish that PG RCMP via Wright had come to the table with statistics instead of an anecdote from one person (who may very well be experiencing the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon, where someone notices things once they start thinking of them - the reason I began seeing Nissan Muranos everywhere once I bought one for myself, statistically the same number of Muranos were driving the streets in town and I just happened to be paying attention to them more). And of course, news and politicians are going to cling to that statistically-unfounded anecdote instead of sharing the actual, much smaller, numbers of safe supply prescriptions being diverted to the illegal market. UGH >:(
"vilifying cigarettes"
But they're legal, addictive, people smoke outside my office during their breaks (and still have to be reminded to shuffle away from the doors and air intakes), and cigarettes injure and kill people and we collect taxes on their sale, and pay for that healthcare through taxes when smokers need it. And people *still* smoke, a fairly significant number depending where you live in Canada and in BC, and the number is much higher up here in central and northern BC. Smoking is more significant than open drug use, Todd. There were an estimated 322,000 smokers in BC in 2020. Vilifying doesn't seem to be helping given that smoking rates stopped declining a few years ago and plateaued.
ugh.