The decline in U.S. life expectancy is unlike anything seen in a century (2018)

Re:The decline in U.S. life expectancy is unlike anything se... by sunkenvicar on Thursday October 24, 2019 @10:43PM (#21351351)

China has taken over the black market and weaponized it against us. China sends the fentanyl precursors to Mexico. There the fentanyl is manufactured and sent to the US and Canada with the help of Mexican cartels. Our intelligence agencies won’t rule out China is doing this to weaken us. A powerful move against an already over-prescribed society.

Fentanyl is found in lethal quantities in all kinds of street drugs. Not just heroin but in pills labelled “Xanax” and in cocaine powder.

We would respond very differently to these casualty numbers in a shooting war with China. Maybe that is why China is killing us with fentanyl.

I draw the line today with 7,000 deaths/yr in Canada and 40,000 deaths/yr in America. What are your numbers?

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Re:The decline in U.S. life expectancy is unlike anything se... by GordonS on Friday October 25, 2019 @08:38AM (#21354347)

FYI, some people deliberately take cocaine and fantanyl (or other opioids) at the same time (speedballing).

> Our intelligence agencies won’t rule out China is doing this to weaken us

Source please.

TBH your comment sounds a lot like the anti-Chinese propoganda that the US government has been spouting since China became the boogeyman de jour.

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Re:The decline in U.S. life expectancy is unlike anything se... by sunkenvicar on Friday October 25, 2019 @08:57PM (#21360788)

You seem to be deliberately distracting and misinterpreting my point. Something Chinese censors would be doing today.

You have only given a half-pinion because we are still waiting for a number. How many deaths are acceptable?

China makes fake pills from fentanyl: https://www.dea.gov/press-releases/2016/07/22/dea-report-cou...

Fentanyl is a national security threat: https://m.theepochtimes.com/china-is-deliberately-using-fent...

Carfentanyl is a WMD: https://globalnews.ca/news/3108514/lethal-carfentanil-could-...

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