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> Humanity seems to be faring reasonably OK. Have you heard of the Opium Wars? Including perhaps the one China is waging against the US right now? Tens of thou
by m0zg 5y ago
> Humanity seems to be faring reasonably OK.
Have you heard of the Opium Wars? Including perhaps the one China is waging against the US right now? Tens of thousands of deaths every year - nobody is even aware.
- betwixthewires 5y agoYeah I am aware of all that. A lot of people are aware.
- m0zg 5y agoSo according to your own post above, 93331 opioid deaths in 2020 in the US alone qualifies as "doing OK" then? To me it sounds like something ought to be done about the situation. Such as, perhaps, imposing crippling trade sanctions on China and enforcing the US/Mexico border security at the very minimum, as well as making an example of large scale opioid peddlers like the Sacklers.
- betwixthewires 5y ago> So according to your own post above, 93331 opioid deaths in 2020 in the US alone qualifies as "doing OK" then? No. But humanity all things considered is doing fine with drugs available outside a hospital, which was the statement I was replying to. I never made anything like a statement that "people dying is fine."