Apparently, there\u2019s another epidemic ravaging America, and I had no clue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Which isn\u2019t hard, because I cultivate not having a clue, but even this one is surprising to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Who knew \u2026 that fentanyl overdoses are the leading cause of death in \u2019Murrica for those between 18 and 49.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What? Yeh. News<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Makes me wonder if (a) this is a culling, and (b) if the cost of living is just too high (pun? Yahbad)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It seems as though the You Ess of Ayyyy got caught with her knickers in a bunch because neither the administrations of Obama nor Trump nor Biden really understood just how bad our opioid addiction really was\/is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Apparently, once the feds came down really, really hard on Big Pharma (Oxycontin? \u00a0Anyone?\u00a0 Anyone?\u00a0 Everyone!!!) and put the legal manufacturers out of business \u2026 oh look, a criminal enterprise vacuum.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Al Capone in 4K HD, but from China, and more so Mexico.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Did you know I did not know but did you know that Mexico had 26,000 homicides in 2022?
My goodness that\u2019s a lot of bodies.
And directly related to the war for control of the drug trade \u2026 to feed \u2018Murrica\u2019s habit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Guess that gets me back to my original question \u2026 are folks checking out on purpose?
Question #2: Is the Gub\u2019mint letting them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the Land of Fruits and Nuts \/ oh wait, I mean San Francisco \/ in the Land of Fruits and Nuts, members of the \u2026 \u201cunhoused\u201d \u2026 community typically have lots of drug addictions \u2026 no surprise there \u2018cuz how hard it is to be homeless really methinks really, really, really hard, like don\u2019t know how they do it hard, like everyday kind of hard \u2026 but anyhoo LoF&N had outreach centers for the \u2026 \u201cunhoused\u201d \u2026 so they could get showers or a meal or \u2014 get this \u2014 a safe space to get high, so if they overdosed, they could get a dose of Narcan to bring them back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well, surprisenot, funding issues and controversy (over giving addicts a spot to get lit go figure) have resulted in the last of these places to close beginning 2023 \u2026 so the EMTs are saying there will be bodies in the street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rather than helping someone recover from an overdose after the Narcan blast, they\u2019ll just bring sheets to cover the bodies because it will be too late, the drugs will have done their damage, and the person will be all the way dead, instead of mostly almost dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maybe this is the official solution to the homeless crisis \u2026 let \u2018em die, burn \u2018em up (cremation), bury \u2018em deep (potter\u2019s field) \u2026\u00a0 guess dead is cheaper if not better<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(I love how nobody caught the misspelling in King\u2019s \u201cPet Sematary\u201d for the longest time \u2026 man is a genius and a national treasure, even if his movies suck \u2026 \u2018cept the \u201976 Carrie, and Dead Zone \u2026 BTW I will mourn<\/em> when Chris Walken dies \/ so much admire for Frank White & Vincenzo Coccotti \u2026 and \u201cbuckwheats\u201d \u2026 how very horrid)<\/p>\n\n\n\n but as I digress down this rabbit hole, methinks that the problem (people on the streets) is too big to solve at this point, and we (the collective we) have thrown up our hands and given in to the inevitable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We no longer owe a debt of humanity to each other, and soon will eat our young. And our old. And our unwanted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s scary (but not really \u2018cuz FAITH) to think that this \u2026 all this suffering of mankind, womankind, kidkind, serves the LORD because HE is not a respecter of persons, but of faith, and good works, and humility, and grace. <\/p>\n\n\n\n But most important \u2026 charity. {1 Corin. 13:13<\/em>}<\/p>\n\n\n\n More of that, we (the collective we) could heal the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The masters of mankind work to keep us distracted by\/in\/with nonsense.\u00a0 Methinks, however, we We just have to recognize that, and act accordingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The big question:\u00a0 Can we? Will we? Do we really want to? <\/p>\n\n\n\n Or will we (the collective we) choose nonsense?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Apparently, there\u2019s another epidemic ravaging America, and I had no clue. Which isn\u2019t hard, because I cultivate not having a clue, but even this one is surprising to me. Who knew \u2026 that fentanyl overdoses are the leading cause of death in \u2019Murrica for those between 18 and 49. What? Yeh. News Makes me wonder … <\/p>\n
(TikTok? Instagram? Anyone? Anyone? Everyone!!!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(the collective we)
are much stronger
than they
(masters of mankind\/purveyors of nonsense).<\/p>\n\n\n\n