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Feb 19 7 tweets 4 min read
austerity logic choosing who lives and who will die is a capitalist nightmare, it's awful
this is endgame of the I GOT MINE approach of both the emergency response and the "it's all about me" advocacy grounded in individual experience (which is not social justice or public health, and will not change the system); yes it's neoliberal capitalism
pilot projects aren't victories. they must be a springboard, a launchpad. because
the moral outrage that @SaferVic describes, the recognition that this is not fair, is the moment when changing everything becomes not just possible but necessary.

with #SafeSupply, users decriminalize themselves and thus become political.

that moment.
it's not about individuals but the connections between us and our differences. figuring out -where we are at- in the world is the process of figuring out how to change it so that all of us can be alive
but the system set this up to divide us, to co-opt people, to laugh while we fight each other instead of them, to hoard information and never share anything. to tear us apart although we're already in shreds.

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More from @kwardvancouver

Feb 19
remember when the vaccine was first available and everyone had to find a doctor to prescribe it but most docs said, "no i think you might enjoy it"
so lots of people had to buy bathtub vax on the street and you could smoke it or inject but if the truckers saw you they would honk their horns and throw their children at you. confusing times. remember that
turned out it wasn't homemade vaccine, it was just bacon grease. so everyone died.
Read 6 tweets
Feb 19
% of substances that tested positive for benzos in fent/down samples in vancouver

the red dots are cheque weeks.

let me show you some other horrifying things.

#PoisoningMassacre

alexbetsos.shinyapps.io/DC_BC/ % of substances that tested positive for benzos in fent/down
the @CDCofBC's useless chart in a TABLEAU and no useable data, THANKS.

ok ok.

the pattern of peaks and valleys is striking, yes?

these are 911 calls OD calls attended by ambulances. not deaths, not all events. by week.

bccdc.ca/health-profess…
Illicit Drug Toxicity Deaths in B.C. by month, Jan 2020-Dec 2021.

the average number of humans who died, each of whom were fully human unto themselves, each month in this province was 185.3 in 2021

from @bccoroners data.
www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/bir…
Read 6 tweets
Feb 19
no, they don't.

the managing editor of the vancouver sun is on the board of the Building Community Society
by the way

vanmag.com/At-Issue-Does-…
MacEwan is the former head of psychiatry at st pauls and currently is the psych at the downtown community court. he's also on the board of BCS. and the Odd Squad.

from june 12, 2020. opinion.
vancouversun.com/opinion/dr-bil…
Read 6 tweets
Feb 18
i have a couple comments here and main thing: have you heard or noticed that everyone is dying and everything's fucked up and its the narrow end of the deathspiral and we're not getting out

this petty shit doesn't matter. every NP in the #DTES is fkdup LOOK AROUND
YES everyone could be way less freaked out and weird about media. the history of such interactions is not great, and has been embellished over time. everything is shit, everyone defaults to treating others like shit in order to make one's place in an intricate hierarchy of shit.
EVERYONE IS DYING. OUR LAST SMALL PLACE IS DYING
Read 7 tweets
Feb 17
so the majority of people dying are not eligible for the inaccessible, inequitable #SafeSupply pilot projects anyway? that is a huge failure by every policymaker involved. seriously. WOW. all of them.

maybe try a public health approach

#bcpoli
*public* means EVERYONE
wow this is going to get so much worse, think about it
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