Fentanyl Death Rate Soars As US Heads Into Holidays
Fentanyl Death Rate Soars As US Heads Into Holidays
But Pandemics Aren't Created Equally
Well, I hope trick-or-treaters didn’t find razor blades in their apples last night.
But the Halloween myth recently evolved, and there’s a new fear in town.
Instead of dreading sharp objects in fruit, parents have growing concerns about hard drugs such as fentanyl making their way into Halloween grab bags.
The new worry was partly exacerbated by a large drug bust in Los Angeles earlier this month.
According to the Los Angeles County Sherriff’s Office, detectives and the DEA seized approximately 12,000 multi-colored fentanyl pills hidden in candy boxes at LAX airport on October 19th.
But law enforcement says we’re as likely to find fentanyl-tainted treats as we are to find razors in apples.
Or even plain apples, for that matter.
Handing out fruit to young trick-or-treaters is an excellent way to get your house dressed in toilet paper.
Although with Bidenflation, I should have set up a fruit buy-back stand in the neighborhood to save on the grocery bill.
But I digress.
Regardless of evolving urban legends, fentanyl continues to terrorize communities nationwide.
Yet we don’t hear much about it from the establishment media.
So it might surprise you that over 150 people die daily from fentanyl overdoses, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
Other government sources place the number at 175.
As illicit fentanyl is cheap and easy for cartels to produce, they use it to boost the potency of other substances or sell it in pure form.
But since crude opioid producers don’t exactly use accurate manufacturing and testing processes, street drugs are often inconsistent in potency.
That’s a problem, as fentanyl is 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine.
A minor recipe change could mean the difference between life and death for the end user.
Still, drugs generally affect people differently depending on their size and weight.
But for reference, here’s enough fentanyl to kill an average adult-sized human male:
Fentanyl actively destroys American families and communities as I write this, but you wouldn’t know it from watching the establishment media, celebrities, or politicians.
Yet fentanyl is now the number one cause of death for people between 18-45, ahead of suicide, car accidents, and even CV.
With numbers like that, you’d think the media would cover the story in more detail.
Unequal Media Coverage
After a Google search, most news results about fentanyl are from local outlets reporting nearby population increases in jails, hospitals, or morgues.
That’s not the case with national coverage.
CNN reported on fentanyl recently, but only to dispel myths about fears of fentanyl ending up in kids’ candy bags.
While the timing is appropriate for the article, CNN doesn’t touch on the larger issues surrounding the drug crisis.
Meanwhile, in Maine, a local CBS affiliate reported police arrested a man after finding 64 grams of fentanyl in his car, along with 45 grams of heroin ready for distribution.
Here’s another reference, 64 grams of fentanyl is enough to kill over 32,000 people if my math is correct.
According to the DEA, 2 milligrams is lethal depending on body size and drug tolerance.
Recently in three other cases in New York City, casual cocaine users died of an overdose the same day after receiving fentanyl-laced powder from an illegal online drug courier service.
But it’s not just willing drug users falling victim to fatal fentanyl ingestion.
A local Fox affiliate in Minnesota reported last week that a 6-year-old child died after chewing on a fentanyl-laced bill.
First responders tried to revive the child with Naloxone (usually referred to by the common brand name Narcan), a chemical agent designed to reverse opioid effects.
But it was too late for the child.
With kids dying from accidental fentanyl contact, where is the national outrage?
Fentanyl Vs. Other Issues
Since 2020 CV has infiltrated every corner of life for people worldwide, and the mainstream media covered the situation 24/7.
We couldn’t even check the weather without seeing alerts for CV info in our area.
Politicians created CV laws, the government shut down businesses, and celebrities scolded us from their ivory towers.
CV restrictions cost people their jobs, and they split the world.
Yet fentanyl gets little coverage.
Of course, CV did kill many people, and we should have taken it seriously.
But once initial fears turned into asking basic questions and things not adding up, the coverage didn’t evolve.
There are still people wearing masks alone in their cars to this day.
I’m not saying we shouldn’t have thoroughly covered CV.
But while we lose over 150 people a day to fentanyl to include children, it makes one wonder why news stories are scarce on the national level.
Fentanyl vs. Guns
The worst mass shooting in the US was the 2017 Las Vegas massacre, where 58 people lost their lives to a maniac posted up in Mandalay Bay, firing down on concertgoers.
Following the incident, as with any mass shooting, politicians cried for gun control, and celebrities called for sweeping gun legislation while they enjoyed armed security and escorts.
Recently, before I heard the official story about Uvalde, what told me that something had happened was Stephen King’s tweet that said, “GUN CONTROL NOW!”
That shooting claimed 17 victims, mostly children.
As deserved, the story received massive coverage.
People wanted answers, but unfortunately, many didn’t want honest answers.
They only wanted to use the event to push political goals.
As terrible as The Mandalay Bay and Uvalde shootings are, their combined victim count is only half of the daily lives lost to fentanyl, according to the CDC.
Yet fentanyl doesn’t come close to gun violence in media coverage.
Fentanyl vs. MAGA Republicans
President Biden said the greatest threat to our country is the MAGA Republicans.
Now let’s suppose white people in the Appalachian Hills were pumping fentanyl into American streets as they did with Moonshine.
In that case, I’m sure the DEA would have it shut down in a day while politicians used the story to convince voters that whites and MAGA Republicans are the greatest threat to our society as children fill hospitals and morgues for white profits.
But unfortunately for DC and the media, drugs like fentanyl mostly come across our unsecured southern border, not from white trailer parks.
That’s not to say there’s no far-right threat.
The recent Buffalo, NY supermarket shooter expressed racist messages before entering the store, and Dylan Roof had racial motivations for committing the Charleston, VA, church shooting.
But the numbers show that most violence comes from the far left, such as Nicholas Roske, that broke into Justice Kavanaugh’s house with restraints and weapons, and the guy that ran over 18-year-old Cayler Ellingson for “being involved with a Republican extremist group.”
The police found no evidence to support the killer’s motive, not that it would have mitigated the crime.
But violence aside, the establishment media continues to tell us that everything and everyone is racist.
And the media should cover real racism, but we didn’t hear a peep about fentanyl killing people across the country and destroying communities.
Why is that?
Inconsistencies in Reporting the Underlying Issues
I watched a short piece from Today after their team spent a day with the San Fransisco Fire Departments’ special overdose task force to get a close look into the fentanyl issue.
As the crew zipped around the city on back-to-back calls, reviving fentanyl victims, the team asked questions, but they didn’t ask about the origin or how to stop the poison from reaching Americans.
Instead, they pondered how racism played into the problem.
The reporters suggested fentanyl overdoses increased among minorities, which may be true.
Especially in a city that privately supplies drugs and designated places to get high.
But mainstream media coverage of underlying causes vastly differs between major issues.
At the beginning of CV, we couldn’t ask about the virus's origins.
Doing so would get you banned from social media or possibly fired from your job.
And we don’t see calls for underlying issues with gun violence, either.
We cant talk about potential reasons for the increased violence, such as over-medicating, the negative effects of social media, childhood abuse, the breakdown of family structure, or lack of purpose in young people in the 21st century as we ship jobs overseas.
The establishment’s solution is to ban weapons for everyone, including law-abiding citizens.
The “gun problem” has nothing to do with guns and everything to do with culture.
The same goes for fentanyl.
We can’t talk about the underlying causes because that would force people to realize that open-border policies are to blame for illicit drugs killing Americans from all walks of life.
And an honest conversation would shine a light on the soft-on-crime Democratic policies that encourage criminals to commit crimes.
Why are these “pandemics” approached differently?
Why doesn’t the media search for the truth?
If you could get a member of the media or a politician to give you an honest answer off the record, they'd probably tell you this:
