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America's fentanyl scourge UNCOVERED: Mailed from China, mixed in Mexico, the strongest opioid yet exploded in the pandemic and now kills a person every seven minutes ‐ but officials are powerless to stop it
2022-12-28
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Drug overdoses now kill more Americans than guns and cars combined

  • Such deaths reached 107,000 in the year to January, 2⁄3 of them due to fentanyl

  • Fentanyl packs down small and is easy to mail or smuggle across borders

  • Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel and Jalisco Cartel bring it into the US

  • Many users have no clue they're taking fentanyl, which is often mixed

  • A fentanyl vaccine offers hope and could save thousands of lives each year
Posted by:Skidmark

#18  And Fort Detrick is jealous they didn't come up with this first. Or did they?
Posted by: DooDahMan   2022-12-28 18:22  

#17  Fentanyl helps solve Bill & Melinda's over population problem.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-12-28 17:35  

#16  In this Opium War, Trump came down hard on fentanyl and became the target of our own government. Why would that be?
Posted by: Super Hose   2022-12-28 16:37  

#15  A role reversal of The Opium Wars. The Chinese play the part of the Western powers, and we are the "out of touch" failing Empire. We even have our own Dowager Empress.
Posted by: Sgt.D.T.   2022-12-28 15:56  

#14  Ancient civilizations also tended to dissolve when the leaders started taking bribes from their enemies.
Posted by: Gromble Dribble4342   2022-12-28 12:51  

#13  ^ See: Useless Eaters by the Vomit Pigs...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-12-28 12:28  

#12  Not exactly targeting our most valuable citizens... Posted by: M. Murcek

They have created a non-producing, economically dependent, cross-class liability population drained of initiative and demanding of services.
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-12-28 12:20  

#11  ^ Yes, yes. Rock in a pond, ripples and all that.

Try defying the laws of physics. Try stopping the rock thrower. Try stopping the ripples in the pond.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-12-28 11:22  

#10  Not exactly targeting our most valuable citizens... Posted by: M. Murcek

The citizens targeted cause tremendous turmoil via theft to supply their habit...and the addicts target you

And the funds produced via illicit sales fuel the corruption within our systems

Without any apparent consequence in return to the Cartels or PRC
Posted by: Tennessee   2022-12-28 11:19  

#9  Along with economic dominance, military dominance in the Pacific, an 'all of the above' approach to the destruction of the US.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-12-28 09:28  

#8  The fentanyl scourge has the feel of an asymmetric warfare campaign conducted against us by China.

Not exactly targeting our most valuable citizens...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-12-28 09:09  

#7  Fentanyl vaccine is able to generate anti-fentanyl antibodies that bind to the consumed fentanyl and prevent it from entering the brain...

Uhh... Wow! 😶
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-12-28 09:08  

#6  The fentanyl scourge has the feel of an asymmetric warfare campaign conducted against us by China.
If their intent is destabilization, distraction, and using our own monies and vices to do so...then it is successful. Perhaps they are paying us back for the alleged heroin campaign conducted against them by the Agency over the past decades.

The constant levels of overdose deaths, violence, and corruption here in Tennessee were enough to give me PTSD last year...this is a clear and present danger and it on our southern border and fueled via an apparent proxy war by the PRC.
Posted by: Tennessee   2022-12-28 08:48  

#5  Securing the southern border would go a long way to help
Posted by: DarthVader   2022-12-28 08:14  

#4  ...old story. Ancient cities fell as often due to those inside who betrayed the gates of the city to the invaders.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-12-28 06:50  

#3  EXCLUSIVE: Border, what border? Huge hole is cut in El Paso barrier to let migrants pour through - with desperate crossers also digging holes and using SEWERS to sneak into Texas
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-12-28 06:40  

#2  Warming up! Bidens touch down in 76 degree US Virgin Islands as America recovers from historic blizzard and thousands are left stranded by airport chaos
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-12-28 05:38  

#1  Meanwhile Biden vacations in the US Virgin Island.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-12-28 00:19  

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