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San Francisco reported 730 overdose deaths last year, on a population of around 800k.
Nearly one in a thousand known to be dead from drug overdoses.
That makes Covid look pretty fucking manageable.
Nearly one in a thousand known to be dead from drug overdoses.
That makes Covid look pretty fucking manageable.
40 minutes (34 in radio and psychiatry!) on addiction and overdoses this morning, after endless programming about the Rona for the past year.
Our rulers do not actually care. https://mobile.twitter.com/KQEDForum/status/1387800438867599363
Our rulers do not actually care. https://mobile.twitter.com/KQEDForum/status/1387800438867599363
This segment is GOOD. But it’s being given the same priority as puff interviews with politicians who already get too much press.
KQED is still giving shit-tier interviews with that Pelosi biographer than it is to the mostly preventable deaths of nearly one resident in a thousand in its home city, in a public health crisis that has been nationally dire for over a decade.
713 deaths, not 730? I don’t want to exaggerate the severity, and I may have underestimated the population.
It’s still objectively worse than Covid in San Francisco.
It’s still objectively worse than Covid in San Francisco.
This is why I’m pissed about the Covid coverage and the culture that has grown up around it. Every smug asshole preening about abiding by “quarantine“ or “lockdown” or, God help us, “cottagecore” is in a MUCH better place to get adequate treatment than junkies or tweakers.
They won’t even devote an entire hour to drug overdoses.
Covid gets this level of coverage because it does not spare the moneyed. That’s all. Junkies and tweakers are local color we see on BART, and boy does Brian Watt miss riding on BART.
They’re now interviewing a fucking epidemiologist about how she went outside without a mask yesterday.
I’ve been wearing masks around strangers THIS WHOLE FUCKING TIME. I first learned about it from the Chinamen on the 1-California.
This segment isn’t bad in absolute terms, but we’ve heard enough of this shit already.
There is NO FUCKING WAY San Francisco would be suffering so many fatal overdoses without business shutdowns. The commuters who used to keep users alive are gone from the BART concourses on Market.
Much of that drop in travel would have happened regardless, but turning the Financial District into a ghost town for a year has gotten a large number of people killed.
Many people have used these exercises as an excuse to hole up at home, shut out all disagreeable information about the world, and be waited on by servant day laborers.
This has gotten people killed, but enough about that, let’s talk about nudge theory and outdoor masks.
This has gotten people killed, but enough about that, let’s talk about nudge theory and outdoor masks.
They have a fucking epidemiologist telling us to stop wearing masks outside to reverse the social norms again.
Fuck off. Outdoor mask use around strangers still seems like a reasonable, prudent practice, and we’ve already been lied to about this shit.
Fuck off. Outdoor mask use around strangers still seems like a reasonable, prudent practice, and we’ve already been lied to about this shit.
“Don’t be frightened to do what’s right by the science” and go around outside unmasked.
No. This is still not about science. This is a fucking mass psychological experiment.
No. This is still not about science. This is a fucking mass psychological experiment.
THERE IS NO SCIENTIFIC REASON *NOT* TO WEAR MASKS OUTDOORS! STOP MISLEADING THE PUBLIC!
There’s something to be said for not mutually freebreathing all over random strangers all day for no particular reason. Some of us have been trying to have this conversation about sex for a while. Masking up around strangers outdoors is still not a bad idea ffs.
They just have to fucking complicate everything. Are ordinary laypeople calmly following the mask guidelines with an abundance of caution? They’re disrespecting the science.
I cannot fucking believe Monica Gandhi just accused everybody who’s still wearing a mask outside of disrespecting science. It’s goddamn disgraceful.
The tone of these authority figures is entirely out of line. They cannot resist an opportunity to scold, condescend, shade the truth, or complicate straightforward guidance.
It’s the same impulse that produces means-testing.
It’s the same impulse that produces means-testing.
Routine outdoor mask use calmly, very simply, very elegantly communicates that it’s prudent not to breathe all over each otherfor no fucking reason and get sick. That’s why we just got to hear about how it’s superstitious because of some new aerosol dispersion studies.
San Francisco of course has a large Chinese immigrant population. Many San Franciscans were already routinely wearing masks outdoors last year when this shit got popping.
I’ll trust any random Chinese grandmother over Monica Gandhi.
I’ll trust any random Chinese grandmother over Monica Gandhi.
Gandhi explicitly said it’s time to reset social norms about mask use so we can smile at each other again.
No. This isn’t epidemiology. It’s marketing psychology. They’re running a psychology experiment on the general public without subject consent or institutional review.
No. This isn’t epidemiology. It’s marketing psychology. They’re running a psychology experiment on the general public without subject consent or institutional review.
These PMC assholes get antsy whenever the masses start using common sense to follow their most reasonable guidance in a consistent,
effective, unburdensome manner. They react by muddying the waters to tell the little people they’re actually doing it all wrong.
effective, unburdensome manner. They react by muddying the waters to tell the little people they’re actually doing it all wrong.
A habit of wearing a mask around outdoor crowds will probably carry over to indoor crowds. But that’s too easy and straightforward, huh. That gives the peons too much autonomy.
The horny-for-rules paypig nerds who give KQED money must have been waiting for dispensation to walk around outside unmasked. It really whips that Monica Gandhi ministered to them in a way that further delegitimizes mask use across the board among the skeptical.
Attn: @AmateurExpertOp Confirmed means-testing proxy in this thread.
