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>"Three years is not a lot of time to give this a chance to work, especially with delays in funding. If you aren't even really providing the programs you said y
by nickff 3y ago
>"Three years is not a lot of time to give this a chance to work, especially with delays in funding. If you aren't even really providing the programs you said you would, then declaring it a failure is a joke. You never gave it a real chance."
This isn't an academic study; if people are dying and the treatment funding is not being increased immediately, keeping this 'experiment' going seems very unethical.
- dumpsterdiver 3y agoAgreed. Without the requisite funding already secured, this policy basically amounts to a half-baked pipe dream. Declaring the policy a failure really isn't a joke. The policy was not implemented as it was proposed (perhaps "imagined" is a better word), and the end result is that it failed. When we talk about "not giving the policy a real chance", what are we talking about exactly? Are we referring to an idealized version of the policy, in which everything goes exactly as it was imagined? Or are we referring to the actual implementation of the policy, in which "everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face" (Mike Tyson quote)?
- chrstphrknwtn 3y agoPeople are disenfranchised all over the United States, dying deaths of poverty, abuse, and alcoholism. Keeping the status quo seems very unethical.
- DoreenMichele 3y agoThe average life expectancy in the homeless population is estimated between 42 and 52 years, compared to 78 years in the general population. https://www.nationalhomeless.org/factsheets/health.html https://www.nationalhomeless.org/factsheets/health.html We need to address our affordable housing crisis and stop acting like it's a personal problem.