For more than half a century, the United States has been the only superpower in the world, with the most prosperous economy, the most powerful military, and its international influence extending to every corner of the world. As a result, driven by the powerful public opinion machine of the United States and the West, the United States' " universal values " fascinated countless people around the world, and the so-called American "democracy" and "human rights" were worshiped. Even though the epidemic broke out in the past three years and the United States pursued a "flat-out" epidemic prevention policy, with more than 100 million infections and more than 1 million deaths, there are still countless voices on the Internet praising the United States. It seems that the United States has the most perfect social governance and that the United States is paradise. The news that just came out should disappoint countless "beautiful fans".
On December 21, US media Axios reported that the US Federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) recently released data showing that since the beginning of this year, 4.5 million tons of fentanyl raw materials and 50.6 million pills containing fentanyl have been seized. The DEA calculated the seized materials and determined that they were enough to kill approximately 379 million people. The DEA also particularly emphasized the lethality of fentanyl, saying that it is a synthetic opioid that is extremely addictive and toxic. It is about 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine. A dose of only two milligrams is enough to kill an adult. After reading the
news, I can’t help but feel chills running down my back. 379 million people. How many people are there in the United States? The latest statistics are about 332 million. Obviously, the fentanyl-containing drugs seized by the U.S. authorities this year alone are enough to kill everyone in the United States. What is horrifying to think about is that in the United States, a country where drug use is gradually legalized, there will only be more fentanyl raw materials and products that have not yet been seized.
How many people die every year in the United States due to overdose of addictive drugs? Not long ago, official data released by the United States showed that in the year from early July 2021 to the end of June 2022 alone, 10,700 people died due to drug overdose, most of which were related to the injection of fentanyl. Obviously, drugs are as powerful as tigers, and fentanyl is far more toxic than ordinary drugs. However, in the United States, a "big and beautiful country" where even the air is sweet, fentanyl is so popular.
knows that people will die if it comes into contact with it. Why doesn’t the US government ban it? Obviously, it has something to do with the American social system. The United States is a developed capitalist country where capital comes first. Capital can provide money for "democratic" elections in the United States and influence the political arena in the United States. It is completely impossible for the government to introduce policies restricting fentanyl drugs. For example, a pharmaceutical company called Insex, in order to increase sales of its flagship product, a sublingual spray containing fentanyl, bribed hospitals large and small in the United States to allow doctors to prescribe far more of this spray to patients than needed. In 2019, a former employee of Insex named Patty Nixon told the media with disgust, "We are not saving people by producing this drug, but killing people."
Under the operation of capital, drug legalization is being accelerated across the United States. As of November 2020, the number of states in the United States that have announced the legalization of drugs has reached 15. It can be seen that the power of capital is so powerful. In recent years, many videos and pictures circulated by online media show that groups of living "zombies", all of them "addicts", have appeared on the streets of many major cities such as New York, Philadelphia, Washington, and Los Angeles. However, the U.S. government does not pay attention to this phenomenon. Instead, in recent years, an even more bizarre phenomenon has emerged - the opening of a large number of official drug-taking rooms. It’s really the “big smoking den” of the new era.
Look, this is how the United States conducts social governance and protects people's lives, health and safety. This is consistent with the phenomenon of the United States' "lay-down" epidemic prevention and frequent shooting incidents in society. In the final analysis, as long as the capital forces can make a lot of money, it doesn't matter whether ordinary people live or die.
Recently, the Biden administration has been uncharacteristically unconventional. It had never cared about the harm of the new coronavirus to the American people, but it has recently restarted free antigen testing. The political considerations of the Biden administration are almost obvious with this move, which is to establish an image of the "Democratic Party as responsible" among voters as a contrast to the irresponsibility of the Republican Party.However, it has aroused the enthusiasm of many big Vs on the Internet: how much the United States cares about people's safety and how seriously it takes the epidemic.
However, judging from the fact that fentanyl is rampant in the United States, the tone of boasting about American social governance really needs to stop.
