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Medical focus??? Cars??? Fentanyl??
I recently got this quip from a medical newsletter. First of all let me say how important car safety is. Always wear your seat belt. Be very careful driving after dark (especially in rural counties like I live in, where 2-6 people are killed yearly in our county— by running into a black cow, escaped from a pasture with a bad fence… at night!) Of course Drunk driving, buzzed driving, drug induced car accidents are all issues.. So just don’t. Ever.. Please.
Here is the Quip. More information/commentary- below this…
Nearly 43K People Were Killed In Traffic Crashes In 2022, NHTSA Says
The Washington Post (4/20, Duncan) reports, “About 42,795 people were killed in traffic crashes last year, according to an estimate Thursday from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, a sign that a pandemic-era surge in deaths has been slowed but not reversed.” Although “the estimate represents a decline of 0.3 percent compared with 2021,” it is still “an increase of almost 18 percent compared with 2019.”
The AP (4/20, Boak) reports, “The department has adopted a strategy for reducing the deaths, including more than $800 million in grants to help communities with projects in high-crash areas, NHTSA said.” — END OF QUOTE..
Point is, the “Media, the “Medical”media, the “Doctor Media” - heck, your family practice doctor.. have done little to diminish the >100,000 deaths/yr from fentanyl - the drug that is made in China (pricks).. hauled to Mexico and made into candies in pharmacies south of our border..(pendejoes)….. and carried across the border in back packs by the so called immigrants (mules)..and then spread into our city streets. Granted some of the car crashes are due to fentanyl impaired drivers as well. Not to mention your kids or grandkids who happen across a candy at school, taste it and fall lifeless to the ground. Why aren’t our “politically correct” doctors and government more locked and loaded to root out these criminals and murderers.????
Oh, maybe the 45 billion or so in cartel profits feed back into the system. Like Democrats pockets.. just “follow the money”
And I am not going to apologize for my Border Spanish above. It is what it is.
“The department has adopted a strategy for reducing the deaths, including more than $800 million in grants to help communities with projects in high-crash areas, NHTSA said.” These grants and seminars, studies, texts, etc., have been going on for YEARS, at least my entire career, and I participated in them, and taught and wrote much curricula for same; but, every year there’s a new strategy and more money for grants, and the deaths keep piling up every year, just like the “war on drugs” did zero good. Why is that you think? Hint: Follow the money…in car design (lighter cars to meet CAFE stds means more deaths in crashes), infrastructure upgrade expenditures spent on social programs, lobby pressures, etc, and a whole host of social problems, like the war on drugs failure and thus drug and alcohol use in younger and younger populations, fatherless families etc.