Addicts using CERB money for drugs: Health unit
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They implemented a system to just give out thousands of dollars to anyone who applied.
Of course the junkies were going to scam the system and overdose like crazy. That goes without saying.
I'm just amazed at the response from our government. "Why don't we just say fuck it and set up safe injection sites with a safe supply of free drugs?"
As we all know from pot legalization, that just means the government is going to make really shitty heroin available to a population of junkies who have gotten to love fentanyl-laced heroin, because it's significantly stronger.
Which means that they'll just use government heroin to tide themselves over when they're sick rather than evaluating their life and going to rehab.
Great plan.
As an aside I'm amazed that the health units still think that it's people doing crystal meth that's been laced with fentanyl that's causing those overdoses. I once got in an argument with some dick on reddit who worked in a health unit and was assuring me that no natives were injecting speedballs of fentanyl and crystal meth when I'd seen it with my own eyes.
No one laces crystal meth with fentanyl. Crystal meth is dirt cheap, plentiful and mixing in a downer would make it shittier, not better.
However, the practice of mixing a little coke into a shot to keep from nodding out (causing junkies to overdose once the coke left their system 20 minutes later) has been supplanted by mixing a little meth into a shot which lasts even longer than the heroin high, keeps it active and makes the user feel functional and aggressive.
It is a fucking dangerous mix, and a guaranteed recipe for overdoses.
When I look a Hadju's record I note that her most significant accomplishment is working in a drug public health unit in Thunder Bay and while she's lauded for her efforts there, the opioid problem got far worse. That's how poor our government performs when it comes to drugs.
The public health units still haven't figured out that they've got a nightmare on their hands and they don't understand a thing about the problem that they're paid good money to tackle.
No wonder there's so many fucking junkies these days.
I don't think skilled professionals want the job, especially not under Trudy.
Their options are either continue doing their life's work for a handsome salary or get into government where they'll be surrounded by slimeballs, have to spend an awful lot of time with sub 90 IQ journalists, and on top of that they have to be an MP which means dealing with constituents (and for the most part, the constituents they deal with will be the most unpleasant, stupid, and insane people in their riding.)
On top of all that, they have to be a yes-man to the most privileged man in Canada, a total fuck-up who is only in his positions because he's a part of a political legacy dating back to the most perfidious traitor in the history of Canada?
I have no illusions as to why the government doesn't attract the best in this nation, I have no illusions about that at all.
Absolutely. Politicians desperately cling to their posts because it’s the best paying job they will ever have. Any reasonably competent person will never leave private sector and deal with the government shit show for an ok salary compared to their skill set.
In the delusional minds of the typical LPC voter, they believe that these fucking degenerates will "pull themselves up by the bootstraps" and become the next Justin Beiber or David Suzuki or whoever the fuck these losers worship this week.
They really think this way, and by extension they themselves will have a share in this greatness that will flow from the CERB by supporting it and the politicians that cheerlead it.
People are really fucking mental these days. Really la la land stuff.
Who woulda thunk it
Oh I thought it was just a big coincidence that all these drug tent towns were popping up full of crackheads in Toronto. Absolutely nothing to do with everyone having free money at that particular point in time.
Well... What is your guys solution to the homless problem?
It's all fine and good until they open safe injection sites and encourage the behaviour instead.
Some of them actually hold down jobs though, so if they can keep their addiction in-check, which the free market economy usually does, then they are actually a net-gain for the economy (albeit a small gain, but at least slightly in the positive column).
They get laid off and put on this CERB bullshit, and that's sometimes enough to tip the scales and send these degens off the deep end. Now who will deliver my Chinese food or come and clean my carpets? Addicts can be useful for shit jobs.
If these cock-sucking politicians had simply done NOTHING AT ALL about this china virus, we would have all been much much better off, especially low-life addicts.