Zero board members of the Shore Aquatic Center responded to yesterday's email asking why a program averaging roughly one shower voucher user per day could not be accommodated at facilities already providing shower services, rather than at a public pool primarily serving families and children. Here is today's question sent to the county commissioners and Dr. Berry:
Dear Commissioners and Dr. Berry,
When county officials make definitive scientific claims that are later shown to be incomplete, inaccurate, or not reflective of the broader body of evidence, what process exists to correct the public record and ensure residents receive updated information?
Second, have the commissioners or the Board of Health ever requested a formal presentation of research that challenges or critiques the county's current harm-reduction approach? If not, why not? Given the significant public investment and policy implications involved, it seems important that decision-makers be exposed to both supporting and opposing evidence before reaching conclusions.
Thank you for your time and consideration. I look forward to your response.
When you make definitive claims that are later shown to be incomplete, inaccurate, or not reflective of the broader body of evidence, what process exists to correct the CCWD record and ensure readers receive updated information?
At the BOH meeting last week, you again accused Dr. Berry of lying. You repeatedly claim that Dr. Berry has said that 4PA steals. She repeatedly refutes that claim.
Her words according to you: "I think it's important to acknowledge that some of our supplies are turned in by people who find them are folks who are cleaning up encampments that people still live in. So that cleaning up is actually theft."
Nowhere in that statement does Dr. Berry reference 4PA. Nowhere in that statement does Dr. Berry claim that 4PA is stealing.
Yet, you tell the audience that "members of the public can watch the video themselves" and decide. You say there is a public recording that supports your claim. THIS IS A LIE.
Here is how Dr. Berry responded to your repeated allegation at the BOH meeting:
"It's that I meant I shared the cleaning up <of> encampments that are occupied and taking things that is from those people is theft. I did not say 4PA steals. You added that part in your documentation. You claimed that I was talking about a specific organization when I was not. What I was referencing actually was a cleanup that actually recently happened in Jefferson County. It had nothing to do with 4PA. You assumed that I was talking about 4PA but that wasn't who I was talking about."
You responded: "Okay. Thank you."
End of conversation. And yet, your readers who did not attend that meeting or listen to it later, will have no idea this issue has been settled. Because you did not print a correction.
You were all fired up and ready to get HR involved to "compare the recorded statement to the public record and determine whether the public was provided accurate information."
But where is that commitment, that dedication to accurate information when someone corrects YOU?
Furthermore, Dr. Berry had already sent a response to you via email. So, your entire performance at the BOH meeting was grandstanding, plain and simple.
I think your readers deserve the truth. What will you tell them?
The question is not whether Dr. Berry uttered the words "4PA steals." She did not.
The question is whether readers could reasonably conclude that she was referring to the volunteer cleanup efforts occurring in Port Angeles when she stated:
“I live here. Have kids in PA. I don’t want needles on the ground, so we work hard to get them back. I think it’s important to acknowledge that some of our supplies that are turned in by people who find them are folks who are cleaning up encampments that people still live in. So, that cleaning up is actually theft. It’s taking supplies that someone is still using.”
At the time the statement was made in February, it occurred during a discussion of conditions in Clallam County and Port Angeles. No mention was made of Jefferson County, Port Townsend, or any specific cleanup effort outside Clallam County. Readers were left to interpret the statement based on the context provided.
Last week's Board of Health meeting was the first time I have heard Dr. Berry state that she was referring to an incident in Jefferson County rather than any cleanup effort in Port Angeles. That clarification is certainly relevant and should be part of the public record. Dr. Berry's recent explanation does not change the context in which the original statement was made.
As for corrections, when I determine that I have reported something inaccurately, I correct it. In this case, I do not believe it was unreasonable to connect comments about "theft" during a Clallam County discussion to local cleanup activities occurring in Clallam County. However, readers should also know that Dr. Berry now says she was referring to a cleanup in Jefferson County and not to 4PA. I covered that in the podcast.
That additional context is important, and readers can watch the recording themselves and decide whether the later explanation resolves the confusion of the original statement.
When one looks at the entire spectacle Dr. Berry is the one who has chosen to assign any blame to anything Jake touches. One needs to listen to multiple meetings to pick up on this circumstantial inference she continues to unwisely make.
As I have asserted previously, and some people choose to utilize, the narrative needn't be true or accurate, as long as it resonates with their audience. Further, when these claims of success are stated by our Health Officer, there are never any citations, or references to well-established medical professionals, or widely accepted science. Truly, there are none so blind...
It took she/they a very long time to engineer an excuse about her comment. Did someone have to point it out besides Jeff?
Her comment was taken exactly how it was intended, in the county she was referring to. Backpedaling is a weak persons argument. That she is still spending time on this, shows her lack of leadership skills. Brush it off Dr Barry, get over it, quit trying to make a mule look like a zebra, you aren’t that talented.
GHW you sound like someone is attacking your precious leaders that continue to do more harm than good. Looking at the facts you should be the one that tells the truth. Name what Dr Berry has done to make this a safer community. She has let us down by providing a pathway to more addiction and not dealt with getting people clean. Waiting for what you consider positive results that are not skewed by the hierarchy of your WOKE solutions
It takes a lot of make believe to change the story’s intent of Dr Barry’s comments. See how much time she has spent on this? Her original statement was taken just as she intended it to be. Now with some questions, she/they is back peddling to make it not true.its a petty and minor comment but paints her in the true light of how she feels. Yes, we all should be scared. Did it take her that long to engineer an explanation? Or did it take that long for someone to inform her that she used a poor choice of words? Is she part of Jefferson county? I thought Clallam was being blessed with this angel of mercy.
Once you lose that “loving” feeling for Dr Barry, her flaws just spill out like a cheap romance novel. God, I hate romance novels. She’s in a job that has no place for fiction. Medicine isn’t always black and white , but it cannnot handle the entire color palette mixed in. That is not a reference to pride month in anyway. I dont think she realizes that she appears out of her element. Promoted to level of incompetence and hanging on by a thread. Too bad these “leaders” have to do public speaking. So many witnesses ! This behavior is so egregious to most of us, one more breech of trust, and there’s no going back.
It’s the two faces of Allison Berry. She has obsessed on comments from a while back.
If they weren’t true, a reasonable person would say “these remarks were taken out of context”,
let’s move on.
A reasonable person would do their job not play Monday morning damage control.
Business 101: A cost/benefit analysis showing exactly how much money is being spent on Harm Reduction programs vs. verified success stories of those who have participated in the program, gotten treatment, and remained clean and become functioning, productive members of society. Any CBA must include pro-rated costs of the amount of time Dr. Berry, her staff, and any and all governmental and NGO employees spend on both administrative and actual performance of the program, as well as supplies, vehicle use, etc. Let's see the real numbers; I'll bet they will be staggering. And please, don't cop out by telling me that you cannot put a price on a single person's life. At this point, folks are believing their own eyes, and not the blah-blah from Dr. Berry. And for heaven's sake, no more land transfers to the Jamestown Corporation. Will they ever have enough?
How many clean needles/syringes does the Health Department give out each week or month and how many do they get back in exchange? Exact counts, not estimates. That should be an easy metric to report. Judging by the pictures from 4PA's cleanups there are a lot of needles/syringes not finding their way back to the Health Department. Clean needles are good for the users but dirty needles left on the ground are bad for the public.
On a different subject, in last Friday's CCWD I read how Tim Wheeler refers to the CCWD and its readers as a cult. This is from an avowed Communist, an ideology that is responsible for the deaths of an estimated 100 million people over the last 100+ years. An ideology that has had to be kept in place by force anywhere it has been tried. This from a man depicted in the one photo with a print or painting of the murderous Che Guevara on the wall behind him. Him calling CCWD and its readers a cult is pretty rich.
My first public comment at today's meeting will be on the BIA letter!
Great article, Jeff. Attending in person as part of your brigade was enlightening. The impact of being present in real time is like a punch to the gut. Knowing what this county went thru with COVID lockdowns because of Dr. Berry following the science, no one should ever trust a public official again. Question everything! Dr. Berry should expect tight scrutiny and not the usual carte blanche.
I was there for my first BOH meeting and I stand by my assessment of Dr. Berry...she needs an independent Psych evaluation. The Commissioners are truly at fault for allowing her to act as she does and believe the rhetoric flowing from her mouth. The input from all of us is data for her science.
Send her away kicking dnd screaming, doesn't matter as long as she's away from here .
Jake Seegers called her out and she couldn't defend that talking point at all.
In the 1920s, the scientific community strictly adhered to uniformitarianism—the belief that the Earth's landscapes were shaped by slow, gradual processes over vast stretches of time. Because J Harlen Bretz's catastrophic flood theory regarding the Channeled Scablands of eastern Washington and the Columbia River basin sounded too biblical, it faced intense resistance and ridicule. Over the following decades, mounting field evidence vindicated Bretz's claims. He lived long enough to see his catastrophist theory universally accepted. In 1979, at the age of 93, Bretz was awarded the Penrose Medal, the highest honor given by the Geological Society of America.
With a background in geology, I often think of Bretz when someone is ridiculed for questioning rock solid science. There is no such thing.
How she can choose not to listen to Stacey, Jake, David (who was so emotional), Jody, Theresa, Jeff and Denise is beyond disgusting. Then to giggle when they talk is 100% unacceptable.
"Rock solid science" can withstand honest questions. Humble, competent leaders would *want* to listen to people who are being hurt by their policies, not respond with endless talking points, deflection, or silence. That's a basic, ethical practice, especially for those whose decisions affect the lives and health of so many others.
The parallels between harm reduction and covid-era policies are hard to miss. They are both ideologically-driven, with a complete unwillingness to examine the "collateral damage," which is tragically measured in human suffering.
I'll limit this comment to two observations about "the science," which you were labeled as "denying" during the covid era if you had the temerity to object to the mistreatment of children, the vax-injured, and people who chose not to take an experimental shot, for which there is no safety net.
#1. It's interesting that the letter about the vaccine mandate for Clallam county restaurants was dated September 2021 because by July 2021, the public health apparatus in WA already knew about "all vaxxed" superspreader events and that it wasn't preventing transmission.
#2. 6-foot "safe" distancing is also referenced in the letter. In 2024, Anthony Fauci admitted before Congress that this "just sort of appeared" and was "not based in science," yet it was used to justify the limiting of school operations and the ability to attend funerals, graduations, and other important life events.
No one could've made all of the right leadership calls in such a time of stress and crisis. But there were opportunities in the moment to listen to suffering people and to pay attention to data that was telling a different story than the talking points. Since then, there's been plenty of time for a "debrief" about what went wrong and how to help those who were impacted, but that hasn't happened either.
It is troubling to see the same people again pushing "the science" and using empathy as a tool of compliance, regardless of the obvious harms to our community.
This was from 2019!!!! It would be really cool if KOMO did a follow up on this report.
I think the issues have WAY exacerbated since this production.
If these are the results of harm reduction almost a decade in, we need to pivot towards something else. The current modus operandi is CLEARLY NOT WORKING!!!
People can find "studies" and call them "facts" all day. The reality is that too often these "studies" are funded by groups that are paying for a specific outcome. This makes them lies. Berry can say one thing but can't change what we are all seeing, on a daily basis, every day. Reality will always speak louder than words.
Dr. Berry is well known on the west end for policies that hurt family owned local businesses. Now her brigade is writing articles that a west end small businesses are actually the producers of large quantities of drugs. But for her passing out free needles I guess we'd all be dead.
A deep dive into the definition of the "harm" we are or intend to reduce would serve. First; what harm are we reducing; harm to the public or harm to the addict and which should be the higher priority ? Second; could a death by overdose be one form of harm reduction ? Consciously or subconsciously, addicts demonstrate the desire to end or change the life they currently live. Harm reduction is a change effort; exclusively. Is it the place of the public to deny a person's chosen path to ending their life ? I know suicide is illegal, yet we allow multiple suicide paths to exist. If death by illicit drugs was a real priority, they would not be accessible. There is some credence to "who's life is it anyway". I'm not advocating any premature end of life, but the end of life as we know it is inevitable. Redundant, but who's harm are we reducing ?
For MANY decades "we" have heard the so-called "government experts" claim that "the science has been settled" on one subject after another, only to later regularly learn that their fake science was a complete fraud all along and therefore NEVER settled at all~! I would have thought that most Americans would by now be well aware that the COVID mandates and vaccines were ALL completely dangerous and deadly Bullshit all along and therefore revealing the horrific Intentional lies and deceptions of these criminals and their evil "settled science" mass murder genocide, but apparently as obvious as they always were, it is STILL too difficult for many to understand~! REALLY??? Why is Berry still in office and running around creating Hell in our community? She should be in prison for her COVID crimes~! Who would be insane enough to believe Berry about the "harm reduction" lies and deceptions at this point? Of course, the public "statistics" that were "cooked" (intentionally rigged like our elections) to make the sleeping sheep believe that the harm reduction attack upon our community was reducing the overdose deaths~! The low information sheep will only remember the fake statistic headline, and unlikely ever realize that it was quickly amended in the governments usual "sleight of hand" to quietly manipulate the numbers back to reflect more accurate numbers that they damn well knew all along and changed Intentionally to trick the sheep into continuing their attack upon them~! I wonder how many more will be slaughtered and how much more destruction will be inflicted upon our community before folks rise up against these local criminals and remove them from office~?
Zero board members of the Shore Aquatic Center responded to yesterday's email asking why a program averaging roughly one shower voucher user per day could not be accommodated at facilities already providing shower services, rather than at a public pool primarily serving families and children. Here is today's question sent to the county commissioners and Dr. Berry:
Dear Commissioners and Dr. Berry,
When county officials make definitive scientific claims that are later shown to be incomplete, inaccurate, or not reflective of the broader body of evidence, what process exists to correct the public record and ensure residents receive updated information?
Second, have the commissioners or the Board of Health ever requested a formal presentation of research that challenges or critiques the county's current harm-reduction approach? If not, why not? Given the significant public investment and policy implications involved, it seems important that decision-makers be exposed to both supporting and opposing evidence before reaching conclusions.
Thank you for your time and consideration. I look forward to your response.
I have not received any responses from the WSMP Board members either. Surprise!
Dear Watchdog,
When you make definitive claims that are later shown to be incomplete, inaccurate, or not reflective of the broader body of evidence, what process exists to correct the CCWD record and ensure readers receive updated information?
At the BOH meeting last week, you again accused Dr. Berry of lying. You repeatedly claim that Dr. Berry has said that 4PA steals. She repeatedly refutes that claim.
Her words according to you: "I think it's important to acknowledge that some of our supplies are turned in by people who find them are folks who are cleaning up encampments that people still live in. So that cleaning up is actually theft."
Nowhere in that statement does Dr. Berry reference 4PA. Nowhere in that statement does Dr. Berry claim that 4PA is stealing.
Yet, you tell the audience that "members of the public can watch the video themselves" and decide. You say there is a public recording that supports your claim. THIS IS A LIE.
Here is how Dr. Berry responded to your repeated allegation at the BOH meeting:
"It's that I meant I shared the cleaning up <of> encampments that are occupied and taking things that is from those people is theft. I did not say 4PA steals. You added that part in your documentation. You claimed that I was talking about a specific organization when I was not. What I was referencing actually was a cleanup that actually recently happened in Jefferson County. It had nothing to do with 4PA. You assumed that I was talking about 4PA but that wasn't who I was talking about."
You responded: "Okay. Thank you."
End of conversation. And yet, your readers who did not attend that meeting or listen to it later, will have no idea this issue has been settled. Because you did not print a correction.
You were all fired up and ready to get HR involved to "compare the recorded statement to the public record and determine whether the public was provided accurate information."
But where is that commitment, that dedication to accurate information when someone corrects YOU?
Furthermore, Dr. Berry had already sent a response to you via email. So, your entire performance at the BOH meeting was grandstanding, plain and simple.
I think your readers deserve the truth. What will you tell them?
Thank you for the comment.
The question is not whether Dr. Berry uttered the words "4PA steals." She did not.
The question is whether readers could reasonably conclude that she was referring to the volunteer cleanup efforts occurring in Port Angeles when she stated:
“I live here. Have kids in PA. I don’t want needles on the ground, so we work hard to get them back. I think it’s important to acknowledge that some of our supplies that are turned in by people who find them are folks who are cleaning up encampments that people still live in. So, that cleaning up is actually theft. It’s taking supplies that someone is still using.”
At the time the statement was made in February, it occurred during a discussion of conditions in Clallam County and Port Angeles. No mention was made of Jefferson County, Port Townsend, or any specific cleanup effort outside Clallam County. Readers were left to interpret the statement based on the context provided.
Last week's Board of Health meeting was the first time I have heard Dr. Berry state that she was referring to an incident in Jefferson County rather than any cleanup effort in Port Angeles. That clarification is certainly relevant and should be part of the public record. Dr. Berry's recent explanation does not change the context in which the original statement was made.
As for corrections, when I determine that I have reported something inaccurately, I correct it. In this case, I do not believe it was unreasonable to connect comments about "theft" during a Clallam County discussion to local cleanup activities occurring in Clallam County. However, readers should also know that Dr. Berry now says she was referring to a cleanup in Jefferson County and not to 4PA. I covered that in the podcast.
That additional context is important, and readers can watch the recording themselves and decide whether the later explanation resolves the confusion of the original statement.
Her statement that it was in reference to JeffCo was a head fake, IMO.
Given enough time anyone can change their story to fit previous actions or comments.
She’s starting to smell like a politician!
Who else is cleaning up camps/encampments that the public was aware of during this time other than 4PA?
It wasn't the first time Berry has insinuated clean ups are theft either
When one looks at the entire spectacle Dr. Berry is the one who has chosen to assign any blame to anything Jake touches. One needs to listen to multiple meetings to pick up on this circumstantial inference she continues to unwisely make.
As I have asserted previously, and some people choose to utilize, the narrative needn't be true or accurate, as long as it resonates with their audience. Further, when these claims of success are stated by our Health Officer, there are never any citations, or references to well-established medical professionals, or widely accepted science. Truly, there are none so blind...
It took she/they a very long time to engineer an excuse about her comment. Did someone have to point it out besides Jeff?
Her comment was taken exactly how it was intended, in the county she was referring to. Backpedaling is a weak persons argument. That she is still spending time on this, shows her lack of leadership skills. Brush it off Dr Barry, get over it, quit trying to make a mule look like a zebra, you aren’t that talented.
GHW you sound like someone is attacking your precious leaders that continue to do more harm than good. Looking at the facts you should be the one that tells the truth. Name what Dr Berry has done to make this a safer community. She has let us down by providing a pathway to more addiction and not dealt with getting people clean. Waiting for what you consider positive results that are not skewed by the hierarchy of your WOKE solutions
It takes a lot of make believe to change the story’s intent of Dr Barry’s comments. See how much time she has spent on this? Her original statement was taken just as she intended it to be. Now with some questions, she/they is back peddling to make it not true.its a petty and minor comment but paints her in the true light of how she feels. Yes, we all should be scared. Did it take her that long to engineer an explanation? Or did it take that long for someone to inform her that she used a poor choice of words? Is she part of Jefferson county? I thought Clallam was being blessed with this angel of mercy.
Once you lose that “loving” feeling for Dr Barry, her flaws just spill out like a cheap romance novel. God, I hate romance novels. She’s in a job that has no place for fiction. Medicine isn’t always black and white , but it cannnot handle the entire color palette mixed in. That is not a reference to pride month in anyway. I dont think she realizes that she appears out of her element. Promoted to level of incompetence and hanging on by a thread. Too bad these “leaders” have to do public speaking. So many witnesses ! This behavior is so egregious to most of us, one more breech of trust, and there’s no going back.
It’s the two faces of Allison Berry. She has obsessed on comments from a while back.
If they weren’t true, a reasonable person would say “these remarks were taken out of context”,
let’s move on.
A reasonable person would do their job not play Monday morning damage control.
But, hey, that would be a reasonable person.
You do understand Berry is anti recovery while 4PA is about recovery. So in her mind they are against her.
Business 101: A cost/benefit analysis showing exactly how much money is being spent on Harm Reduction programs vs. verified success stories of those who have participated in the program, gotten treatment, and remained clean and become functioning, productive members of society. Any CBA must include pro-rated costs of the amount of time Dr. Berry, her staff, and any and all governmental and NGO employees spend on both administrative and actual performance of the program, as well as supplies, vehicle use, etc. Let's see the real numbers; I'll bet they will be staggering. And please, don't cop out by telling me that you cannot put a price on a single person's life. At this point, folks are believing their own eyes, and not the blah-blah from Dr. Berry. And for heaven's sake, no more land transfers to the Jamestown Corporation. Will they ever have enough?
How many clean needles/syringes does the Health Department give out each week or month and how many do they get back in exchange? Exact counts, not estimates. That should be an easy metric to report. Judging by the pictures from 4PA's cleanups there are a lot of needles/syringes not finding their way back to the Health Department. Clean needles are good for the users but dirty needles left on the ground are bad for the public.
On a different subject, in last Friday's CCWD I read how Tim Wheeler refers to the CCWD and its readers as a cult. This is from an avowed Communist, an ideology that is responsible for the deaths of an estimated 100 million people over the last 100+ years. An ideology that has had to be kept in place by force anywhere it has been tried. This from a man depicted in the one photo with a print or painting of the murderous Che Guevara on the wall behind him. Him calling CCWD and its readers a cult is pretty rich.
It's ignorant.
Ignorant, brainwashed, or lying?
Probably all three
Bureaucracy is a cult!
“Harm Reduction” is tantamount to giving alcoholics a ride to the bar then patting yourself on the back for reducing the number of DUIs.
My first public comment at today's meeting will be on the BIA letter!
Great article, Jeff. Attending in person as part of your brigade was enlightening. The impact of being present in real time is like a punch to the gut. Knowing what this county went thru with COVID lockdowns because of Dr. Berry following the science, no one should ever trust a public official again. Question everything! Dr. Berry should expect tight scrutiny and not the usual carte blanche.
Good morning Jeff and Doggers,
I was there for my first BOH meeting and I stand by my assessment of Dr. Berry...she needs an independent Psych evaluation. The Commissioners are truly at fault for allowing her to act as she does and believe the rhetoric flowing from her mouth. The input from all of us is data for her science.
Send her away kicking dnd screaming, doesn't matter as long as she's away from here .
Jake Seegers called her out and she couldn't defend that talking point at all.
Thanks all and have a great one.
I need mental floss from hearing her again today🥴
She really is very hard to listen to with the giggle in her voice. Especially regarding a truly life and death situation.
In the 1920s, the scientific community strictly adhered to uniformitarianism—the belief that the Earth's landscapes were shaped by slow, gradual processes over vast stretches of time. Because J Harlen Bretz's catastrophic flood theory regarding the Channeled Scablands of eastern Washington and the Columbia River basin sounded too biblical, it faced intense resistance and ridicule. Over the following decades, mounting field evidence vindicated Bretz's claims. He lived long enough to see his catastrophist theory universally accepted. In 1979, at the age of 93, Bretz was awarded the Penrose Medal, the highest honor given by the Geological Society of America.
With a background in geology, I often think of Bretz when someone is ridiculed for questioning rock solid science. There is no such thing.
How she can choose not to listen to Stacey, Jake, David (who was so emotional), Jody, Theresa, Jeff and Denise is beyond disgusting. Then to giggle when they talk is 100% unacceptable.
By the way GREAT JOB all of you!
"Rock solid science" can withstand honest questions. Humble, competent leaders would *want* to listen to people who are being hurt by their policies, not respond with endless talking points, deflection, or silence. That's a basic, ethical practice, especially for those whose decisions affect the lives and health of so many others.
The parallels between harm reduction and covid-era policies are hard to miss. They are both ideologically-driven, with a complete unwillingness to examine the "collateral damage," which is tragically measured in human suffering.
I'll limit this comment to two observations about "the science," which you were labeled as "denying" during the covid era if you had the temerity to object to the mistreatment of children, the vax-injured, and people who chose not to take an experimental shot, for which there is no safety net.
#1. It's interesting that the letter about the vaccine mandate for Clallam county restaurants was dated September 2021 because by July 2021, the public health apparatus in WA already knew about "all vaxxed" superspreader events and that it wasn't preventing transmission.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/washington/article_229643ae-8bcb-11ed-ace4-37629989c8f7.html
#2. 6-foot "safe" distancing is also referenced in the letter. In 2024, Anthony Fauci admitted before Congress that this "just sort of appeared" and was "not based in science," yet it was used to justify the limiting of school operations and the ability to attend funerals, graduations, and other important life events.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/fauci-it-sort-of-just-appeared-that-six-feet-is-going-to-be-the-distance/
No one could've made all of the right leadership calls in such a time of stress and crisis. But there were opportunities in the moment to listen to suffering people and to pay attention to data that was telling a different story than the talking points. Since then, there's been plenty of time for a "debrief" about what went wrong and how to help those who were impacted, but that hasn't happened either.
It is troubling to see the same people again pushing "the science" and using empathy as a tool of compliance, regardless of the obvious harms to our community.
A threat because Dr. I know everything Berry is actually wrong.
I think I posted this before but FAFO is coming for all these people and their Grant grifting enterprises!
https://youtu.be/h52wODvtZG8?is=va7ut4WZewPufb58
https://youtu.be/WijoL3Hy_Bw?si=Yy5U2o2POWG0Xr2l more of the same, closer to home.....from KOMO news
Thanks Ruth!
I'm not even half way through it and it doesn't surprise me one bit.
What we're doing isn't compassion.
This was from 2019!!!! It would be really cool if KOMO did a follow up on this report.
I think the issues have WAY exacerbated since this production.
If these are the results of harm reduction almost a decade in, we need to pivot towards something else. The current modus operandi is CLEARLY NOT WORKING!!!
People can find "studies" and call them "facts" all day. The reality is that too often these "studies" are funded by groups that are paying for a specific outcome. This makes them lies. Berry can say one thing but can't change what we are all seeing, on a daily basis, every day. Reality will always speak louder than words.
This science seems about as rock solid as the investigative reporting in this article: https://salsapicanteclallamcounty.substack.com/p/made-in-beaver
Dr. Berry is well known on the west end for policies that hurt family owned local businesses. Now her brigade is writing articles that a west end small businesses are actually the producers of large quantities of drugs. But for her passing out free needles I guess we'd all be dead.
Yet we all know the facts of a major distributor operating out of the casino. Salsa can't even make up a good lie about the local drug trade.
A deep dive into the definition of the "harm" we are or intend to reduce would serve. First; what harm are we reducing; harm to the public or harm to the addict and which should be the higher priority ? Second; could a death by overdose be one form of harm reduction ? Consciously or subconsciously, addicts demonstrate the desire to end or change the life they currently live. Harm reduction is a change effort; exclusively. Is it the place of the public to deny a person's chosen path to ending their life ? I know suicide is illegal, yet we allow multiple suicide paths to exist. If death by illicit drugs was a real priority, they would not be accessible. There is some credence to "who's life is it anyway". I'm not advocating any premature end of life, but the end of life as we know it is inevitable. Redundant, but who's harm are we reducing ?
For MANY decades "we" have heard the so-called "government experts" claim that "the science has been settled" on one subject after another, only to later regularly learn that their fake science was a complete fraud all along and therefore NEVER settled at all~! I would have thought that most Americans would by now be well aware that the COVID mandates and vaccines were ALL completely dangerous and deadly Bullshit all along and therefore revealing the horrific Intentional lies and deceptions of these criminals and their evil "settled science" mass murder genocide, but apparently as obvious as they always were, it is STILL too difficult for many to understand~! REALLY??? Why is Berry still in office and running around creating Hell in our community? She should be in prison for her COVID crimes~! Who would be insane enough to believe Berry about the "harm reduction" lies and deceptions at this point? Of course, the public "statistics" that were "cooked" (intentionally rigged like our elections) to make the sleeping sheep believe that the harm reduction attack upon our community was reducing the overdose deaths~! The low information sheep will only remember the fake statistic headline, and unlikely ever realize that it was quickly amended in the governments usual "sleight of hand" to quietly manipulate the numbers back to reflect more accurate numbers that they damn well knew all along and changed Intentionally to trick the sheep into continuing their attack upon them~! I wonder how many more will be slaughtered and how much more destruction will be inflicted upon our community before folks rise up against these local criminals and remove them from office~?
Sincerely, Mike
I want to boop Bradley in the nose or walk up behind him on a cold day and flick his earlobe. Holy Cow!!!! what an ignorant comment.