What kind of pathetic op-ed sewage is this? Lmfao! This is not even close to legitimate journalism! Haha! This woman is an obsessed, frothing at the mouth wacko, who gives not one bit of evidence to support her vague and maniacal assertions (that she’s eager to make about anyone who’s remotely related to harm reduction policies in the city, to any poor soul who is unaware enough to listen to her in the first place as she descends into madness (aka her typical written and spoken rambling, incoherent, lunatic-diatribes, in which she attempts to attack anyone and everyone related to any efforts to reduce harms that could potentially be related to illicit drug use in the city.) DO NOT READ or listen to anything Erica Sandberg writes or says if you want REAL, or ACCURATE info on anything.
FYI, this is humble Advice from an expert in the field Erica speaks & writes opinion pieces about so frequently, without having any real expertise at all. Erica: you’re irrelevant. Until you back up your assertions/allegations/misinformation/lies with evidence, facts and/or science, you will continue to be laughed at and dismissed by most thinking people who know of you and your junk journalism.
I appreciate the conclusion: get involved, make calls, pressure back.
That said, some more data in your writing would be helpful. How long have these folks been in their positions? Do we know how they got them? Which BoS members HAVE pushed back against this?
PS: two small typos, the word “dug” instead of “drug” and “qualify of life” instead of “quality”.
How about you concentrate on the veracity or falsity of Eric’s claims which you accept without question or data to back them up, as opposed to silly typos no one cares about? You come off more as a unaware sycophant and not an astute critical thinker.
Unsurprisingly, since your expertise is in marketing phones? Banks?, you simply know not what you speak of when it comes to the consumption of Fent or Meth. Surgeons use Fent safely for patient pain management every day without those same patients overdosing or becoming “junkies”. Adderall, legal meth for people with various disorders, saves people's lives, including children’s, daily all over the world. But its good to know you draw the line at a paltry $90 Million when it comes to saving lives: https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-mayor-breed-overdose-tenderloin-center-fentanyl-17846320.php
It sure is good to learn that legal drugs used in a hospital by real MDs is safe according to you.
It may be in many or most cases, but you may have heard from people who have published their personal addiction stories relating that it began innocently with a surgery an great resulting pain after discharge from the hospital. Maybe you don't want to look at the whole story?
Respectfully, I disagree with you. You may not agree with her reporting, but it is indeed reporting and accurate according to my follow-up inspection of this subject (using all publicly available City and journalists' information)
If the city was not subsidizing the problem, with taxpayer money, the vast majority of those addicts would have to clean up to a degree, to afford their habits. They'd be more tolerable and less destructive to the society around them. There is a direct absolute correlation between spending more government money, growing government, and all the problems you're observing there. Let's deport illegal migrants, free up available jobs, stop the welfare programs, and watch all these Americans voluntarily return to work and get themselves off the street. They're not your problem, get away from people whom support and utilize government subsidy programs, otherwise you'll eventually be caught in the trap of government dependency too. Taxation is theft. Someone is getting paid a kings share to expand these programs. They don't care about humans, they care about wealth and power.
Erica - You mention three SFDPH people who don't even respect the public enough to give you an interview. They are only three of many bureaucrats who have high impact on quality of life. Many of these highly paid civil employees have no interest in making these problems go away. Maybe it is because these days there is no longer any shame left in our people?
Why would they give Erica an interview? I live in the TL along with many of my friends, and don’t feel slighted at all by their refusal to do so. No offense Erica.
DavidC - I give you credit for at least saying you live in the TL, but isn't your or anyone's opinion/perspective on what happens there with the drug sales and use largely dependent on who they are, whether they are poor and working and raising kids, or something other than that? You sound like you know what goes on in your neighborhood. How comfortable are you with it being so filthy and crime ridden?
You aren't on the payroll of the Homeless or Drug Dealing non-profits are you? It's Ok if you are, you can tell us.
The largest body of impovershed Americans are white people in rural areas. They can make it without resorting to these behaviors, why can't the people there in these urban areas? Answer; The presence of government subsidies turns them dependent. Otherwise they'd be just like rural impovershed people, and make at least reasonably smart enough decisions to keep a roof over their head, have some minimal employment, and some legal, or quasi legal income, one which does far less harm to society around them. Stop making other peoples problems your problem, bleeding heart liberals whom vainly think they are intelligent enough to install central planning systems and solve everyone elses problem, with other peoples money, are a main part of the issue. Let them spend their own money if they are so adamant about helping, and refuse to give them more tax money to implement their nefarious societal controlling schemes. Unless you support what's happening there, it's time to leave. Nothing stops you from packing it up, driving far away, and landing an easy job in a small town, then grabbing a dirt cheap apartment, or even living in a vehicle full time in a more pleasant legal setting like an rv park or that sort of thing. All around this country there are people with excess land whom lease full time living situations for people in tiny campers, tents, or other situations. Special hint; Those locations are not available where government bureaucrats have grown so powerful they have long since imposed excess building density and restrictive regulations. The people of California have merely prepared their own limbs for bondage, and received exactly what they asked for with growth of government voting. When you hand control to someone else, expect continued abuse to accelerate. Leave while you still can.
I'd say you got that right. It's just that those of us who didn't vote for this crap, and don't support it, and aren't the phonies looking to spend OPM on whatever, we - grew up here, and don't want to move. If we ever need to, at least we have that option.
What kind of pathetic op-ed sewage is this? Lmfao! This is not even close to legitimate journalism! Haha! This woman is an obsessed, frothing at the mouth wacko, who gives not one bit of evidence to support her vague and maniacal assertions (that she’s eager to make about anyone who’s remotely related to harm reduction policies in the city, to any poor soul who is unaware enough to listen to her in the first place as she descends into madness (aka her typical written and spoken rambling, incoherent, lunatic-diatribes, in which she attempts to attack anyone and everyone related to any efforts to reduce harms that could potentially be related to illicit drug use in the city.) DO NOT READ or listen to anything Erica Sandberg writes or says if you want REAL, or ACCURATE info on anything.
FYI, this is humble Advice from an expert in the field Erica speaks & writes opinion pieces about so frequently, without having any real expertise at all. Erica: you’re irrelevant. Until you back up your assertions/allegations/misinformation/lies with evidence, facts and/or science, you will continue to be laughed at and dismissed by most thinking people who know of you and your junk journalism.
Wow - a real expert! How that harm reduction going there brave anonymous expert?
Pure garbage. No evidence needed for Erica! lol!
I appreciate the conclusion: get involved, make calls, pressure back.
That said, some more data in your writing would be helpful. How long have these folks been in their positions? Do we know how they got them? Which BoS members HAVE pushed back against this?
PS: two small typos, the word “dug” instead of “drug” and “qualify of life” instead of “quality”.
How about you concentrate on the veracity or falsity of Eric’s claims which you accept without question or data to back them up, as opposed to silly typos no one cares about? You come off more as a unaware sycophant and not an astute critical thinker.
*Erica
Unsurprisingly, since your expertise is in marketing phones? Banks?, you simply know not what you speak of when it comes to the consumption of Fent or Meth. Surgeons use Fent safely for patient pain management every day without those same patients overdosing or becoming “junkies”. Adderall, legal meth for people with various disorders, saves people's lives, including children’s, daily all over the world. But its good to know you draw the line at a paltry $90 Million when it comes to saving lives: https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-mayor-breed-overdose-tenderloin-center-fentanyl-17846320.php
It sure is good to learn that legal drugs used in a hospital by real MDs is safe according to you.
It may be in many or most cases, but you may have heard from people who have published their personal addiction stories relating that it began innocently with a surgery an great resulting pain after discharge from the hospital. Maybe you don't want to look at the whole story?
Great piece Erica. The more we get educated on these issues, the better informed are our arguments for change in this town.
Thank you for your concern for our City.
Erica’s piece has nothing to do with education-at all.
Respectfully, I disagree with you. You may not agree with her reporting, but it is indeed reporting and accurate according to my follow-up inspection of this subject (using all publicly available City and journalists' information)
Erica is not “reporting” she’s opining while making wild data-less claims. Put your critical thinking hat on and you’ll understand what I mean.
If the city was not subsidizing the problem, with taxpayer money, the vast majority of those addicts would have to clean up to a degree, to afford their habits. They'd be more tolerable and less destructive to the society around them. There is a direct absolute correlation between spending more government money, growing government, and all the problems you're observing there. Let's deport illegal migrants, free up available jobs, stop the welfare programs, and watch all these Americans voluntarily return to work and get themselves off the street. They're not your problem, get away from people whom support and utilize government subsidy programs, otherwise you'll eventually be caught in the trap of government dependency too. Taxation is theft. Someone is getting paid a kings share to expand these programs. They don't care about humans, they care about wealth and power.
🤢 is this really even reporting ?
Once again, I respectfully disagree with you. Enough on this? I will not respond further, so save your time and move on with someone else. Thanks
Erica - You mention three SFDPH people who don't even respect the public enough to give you an interview. They are only three of many bureaucrats who have high impact on quality of life. Many of these highly paid civil employees have no interest in making these problems go away. Maybe it is because these days there is no longer any shame left in our people?
Why would they give Erica an interview? I live in the TL along with many of my friends, and don’t feel slighted at all by their refusal to do so. No offense Erica.
DavidC - I give you credit for at least saying you live in the TL, but isn't your or anyone's opinion/perspective on what happens there with the drug sales and use largely dependent on who they are, whether they are poor and working and raising kids, or something other than that? You sound like you know what goes on in your neighborhood. How comfortable are you with it being so filthy and crime ridden?
You aren't on the payroll of the Homeless or Drug Dealing non-profits are you? It's Ok if you are, you can tell us.
The largest body of impovershed Americans are white people in rural areas. They can make it without resorting to these behaviors, why can't the people there in these urban areas? Answer; The presence of government subsidies turns them dependent. Otherwise they'd be just like rural impovershed people, and make at least reasonably smart enough decisions to keep a roof over their head, have some minimal employment, and some legal, or quasi legal income, one which does far less harm to society around them. Stop making other peoples problems your problem, bleeding heart liberals whom vainly think they are intelligent enough to install central planning systems and solve everyone elses problem, with other peoples money, are a main part of the issue. Let them spend their own money if they are so adamant about helping, and refuse to give them more tax money to implement their nefarious societal controlling schemes. Unless you support what's happening there, it's time to leave. Nothing stops you from packing it up, driving far away, and landing an easy job in a small town, then grabbing a dirt cheap apartment, or even living in a vehicle full time in a more pleasant legal setting like an rv park or that sort of thing. All around this country there are people with excess land whom lease full time living situations for people in tiny campers, tents, or other situations. Special hint; Those locations are not available where government bureaucrats have grown so powerful they have long since imposed excess building density and restrictive regulations. The people of California have merely prepared their own limbs for bondage, and received exactly what they asked for with growth of government voting. When you hand control to someone else, expect continued abuse to accelerate. Leave while you still can.
Mr. Yesterday -
I'd say you got that right. It's just that those of us who didn't vote for this crap, and don't support it, and aren't the phonies looking to spend OPM on whatever, we - grew up here, and don't want to move. If we ever need to, at least we have that option.