I read Heather Knight’s long, interesting front-page article on a San Francisco homeless woman’s ongoing struggles with fentanyl.

To get a sense of how negatively people in Alameda County view Pamela Price, visit the Twitter page of the Alameda County District Attorney’s office and read the comments. They’re almost 100% critical. Here’s a representative sample:

When it comes to drug treatment and housing for the Bay Area’s thousands of homeless addicts, the 800-pound gorilla in the room is that many if not most of those offered help refuse it. They simply prefer to remain living in the streets and to continue to use their drugs of choice. And we—civil society—are no closer to figuring out how to deal with this than we were years ago, when the problem first arose.

I find it fascinating that Thao is now promising to end encampments sometime next year. Thank you Mayor Thao! It took you a while, but you’ve finally accepted the advice of the Coalition for a Better Oakland, namely that Oakland must formally put an end to these dirty camps, immediately and forever. We’ve been calling for precisely that for years, but you, and the politicians that support you, resisted. But events have so turned out that even you, in your stubborn embrace of wokeness, have realized that your job, not to mention public opinion, requires you to clean up our city and get rid of these awful slums.

The word “woke” gets a lot of attention these days, but what does it really mean? I think it means whatever the speaker intends it to mean, which can be almost anything. When Ron DeSantis uses the word “woke,” he means something very different from what I mean.