The Real Pandemic

[squirrel]

While we are talking pandemics -

It was announced this week that more people, aged 18-45, died of Fentanyl overdoses in 2020 than covid, car accidents, cancer, + suicide combined.

The drug has taken 100,306 from April 2020 to April 2021. This represents a 28% increase between April 2020 and April this year (2021)

[manwitaplan]

While we are talking pandemics -

It was announced this week that more people, aged 18-45, died of Fentanyl overdoses in 2020 than covid, car accidents, cancer, + suicide combined.

The drug has taken 100,306 from April 2020 to April 2021. This represents a 28% increase between April 2020 and April this year (2021)

And not one news network to report. Thanks for sharing.


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[meltingfeather]

I’ve been saying this since the onset. Instead our solution was to shutdown gyms, even beaches and ski mountains. There was even a mother who was arrested for taking her child to a park, my god the audacity of that woman!

No, the solution must come from big pharma and they haven’t formulated a slim pill that isn’t basically meth. And they don’t really want to cure anything. There is WAAAAAY more money in giving statins, blood pressure meds and all the new meds for various auto immune disorders that our toxic diet is causing…

Fee for service healthcare and crazy money in pharmaceuticals… two big factors in my mind.

[brokeno]

Tortillas

[glen]

I am not at all trying to run anyone down that is not in good health habits. Actually just the opposite. I’ll gladly help anyone that wants it. It is a slow journey that people either make a choice to do or not to do. The best advice I can say is start winning small battles - drink tea, coffee, water only and start walking 15 minutes a day. Many folks would be amazed at what just this small life adjustment will do for them. I’m guessing many would drop 10-15 pounds or more in a year.
If anyone wants or needs help taking small steps and needs someone to help with it shoot me a PM.

[Ætheling]

Was at the Woodlands Memorial Hospital last week doing pre op stuff for a minor outpatient surgery I have this week. Save for the vast majority of the Doctors and Nurses everyone else in that hospital was obese. The patients only see others that look like them, unhealthy, so they must think it is the norm. The doctors and nurses must know that the hospital and medical system exists in at least the majority of its form to basically treat ailments caused by their obesity but no one questions anything or says anything.

[Throwin Darts]

There’s a Taco Bell thread on around the campfire. Guys ordering $15 worth of dog crap tacos and a giant soda and it’s the most normal thing ever. No wonder everyone is fat

[WItoTX]

Correct OP. Add to that, getting the correct amount of sleep and proper dietary supplements. If folks ate right, performed light exercise, slept and supplemented what they didn't get in their food, big pharma would collapse.

[camoclad]

An agreeable position and thread OP

[Ætheling]

I wonder if it's coincidental that Texas also is the world's eighth largest economy.

There is a direct correlation between GDP and obesity in countries so it would seem fair that it would extend between states. Many people do not realize how wealthy this state is if they haven't visited others. We have so much opportunity here compared to the rest of the nation.

[PondPopper]

There is a direct correlation between GDP and obesity in countries so it would seem fair that it would extend between states. Many people do not realize how wealthy this state is if they haven't visited others. We have so much opportunity here compared to the rest of the nation.

There are fat people in middle Neb. and western Nebraska, in the middle of BFE, so that analogy is out.

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Was at the Woodlands Memorial Hospital last week doing pre op stuff for a minor outpatient surgery I have this week. Save for the vast majority of the Doctors and Nurses everyone else in that hospital was obese. The patients only see others that look like them, unhealthy, so they must think it is the norm. The doctors and nurses must know that the hospital and medical system exists in at least the majority of its form to basically treat ailments caused by their obesity but no one questions anything or says anything.

Sounds like EMTs you see rolling up in an ambulance these days.

[OleTomTalker]

Seems one of the problems is that our mindset of getting/buying something to reach our goals instead of giving up things to reach our goals.

Look at what a huge industry the supplement stores and products have. Most the time we'd rather buy a pill or drink mix to get where we want than give up something...

Same with Rx industry too...

[Ætheling]

There are fat people in middle Neb. and western Nebraska, in the middle of BFE, so that analogy is out.

Those states still have GDPs that are higher than most of the world.

[ThisLadyHunts]

There is a direct correlation between GDP and obesity in countries so it would seem fair that it would extend between states. Many people do not realize how wealthy this state is if they haven't visited others. We have so much opportunity here compared to the rest of the nation.

Have never heard of the obesity/GDP correlation. Very interesting.

As for inherent opportunity in this state? No matter how you feel about any of our state-level elected officials, it is their collective (and forward-thinking) pro-business stance over the last 20 years that has placed us in such a fortuitous economic condition. Of course, with the good also comes the bad and I consider the erosion of our state identity and the culture by which we identify to be the greatest loss.

Whether one thinks the economic prosperity we enjoy is worth the price, of course, is up to each of us.


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