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Apr 12, 2022 17 tweets 6 min read Read on X
they were not "lost", they were killed by drug policy and political indifference

#bcpoli
#SocialMurder
news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2022P…
the government let six people under 19 die in february.

www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/bir… Image
the provincial government is CHOOSING to let this continue indefinitely Image
THE BEST PLACE ON EARTH map of province, color code...
this is a supply chain issue. Post-mortem toxicology resu...
"Preliminary data suggests that the proportion of illicit drug toxicity deaths for which illicit fentanyl was detected (alone or in combination with other drugs) was approximately 76% in 2022 and 85% in 2021."

it would be more accurate to say fentanylS
alexbetsos.shinyapps.io/DC_BC/_w_86662… Image
this is rather confusing. but.

it is never discussed how many people who used cocaine have died as a result of the substance (or pipe) being cross-contaminated.

could be thousands of people.

and they go on about opioid use disorder and never look at the facts. top drugs involved among il...
the point is that people don't know what theyre consuming; its composition or potency. KNOWLEDGE is whats prohibited.

thats why these deaths are poisonings.

you can't over-DOSE if you can't know your DOSE.

unnatural, yes. poisoned by policy failures. political deaths. Image
you are pretending to be in charge but have no power or budget

Dix, Farnsworth, Eby, Henry, Horgan.

this is a supply issue, its not about addiction

“It’s heartbreaking to see the 174 lives lost in February due to the toxic drug crisis."

really. really.
news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2022M…
IF YOU DON'T REPLACE THE ENTIRE ILLICIT DRUG SUPPLY WITH REGULATED SUBSTANCES IT WILL ONLY GET WORSE, AND MORE AND MORE PEOPLE WILL DIE. FOREVER.

could someone mention that “This morning, I will be ma...
the Death Panel Review found that 73% of decedents used daily, and 13% occasionally (14% 🤷?)

"treatment beds" wouldnt save the 22 people who died in february who used drugs once in a while. a regulated drug supply, with no prescription required would.
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there isnt a finite population of people who use drugs! people start, stop, experiment, re-start all the time! LIKE AT THE TAIL END OF A PANDEMIC AS THEYRE ABANDONED BY GOVERNMENT IN A MASS TRAUMA, MASS DISABLING, MASS CASUALTY EVENT

if not for the toxicity, i'd recommend drugs.
people will use drugs because YOU failed, @bcndp. you failed to protect people. you failed to mitigate harm. you lied. and you failed your duty to the public.

every death is a policy failure. YOUR policy, YOUR failure.

for example
WHY HAVENT YOU ADDRESSED CHEQUE DAY Image
(people will use drugs because you broke the health system and everyone is going to quit because of the moral injury you have committed upon them,

and nobody has a doctor anyhow)
it is going to get worse and you will pretend its not happening because you believe This will never be a ballot issue

so you have let thousands of people die

its accountability time yes it is
because otherwise this will get worse and the government is poisoning the future, right now, today, killing six more people, today, day 2,190 of this emergency

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More from @kwardvancouver

Apr 12, 2022
"THIS IS A PLANNING ISSUE TOO!"

Decriminalization is about the right to the city.
if you care about cities, you need to understand the ways in which they cause harm - and reduce it. you can use your positions to help people stay safe. planners can literally create space for excluded people from your discourse. @Jay_Pitter explains this
i keep asking and its a real question, what are cities for?
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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.
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% 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, 2022
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
Read 7 tweets
Feb 19, 2022
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…
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