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[slimslob]

Since even the extra unemployment insurance is quite small, this is an indication that wages are too low. Maybe employers should look at increasing wages.

An additional $300.00 a week is not that small. For someone working a 40 hour work week that is $7.50 an hour or for a part-time worker, which most unskilled and unqualified workers are it would be equal to the new minimum wage of $15.00 an hour for 20 hours.

In addition if you take that amount over a 52 week year and divide it by 12 months it works out to being $1300.00 a month, which is about what a lot of senior citizens receive a month from Social Security.

[BillyCarpenter]

Drug Overdoses Killed 2x More People in San Francisco than COVID-19


Drug overdoses killed more than 700 people in San Francisco in 2020, while the coronavirus pandemic — which shut down the city and accelerated an exodus — killed fewer than 300, and the overdose death rate is even worse in 2021.


The San Francisco Chronicle reported Saturday:


San Francisco suffered an epidemic in 2020 that was more deadly than COVID-19. Drug overdoses resulted in more than 700 deaths last year, while the communicable disease declared a global pandemic killed fewer than 300 — and 2021 looks to be even worse.


This year’s preliminary tally of 252 accidental overdose deaths from January to April, which is the latest available through the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, suggests San Francisco is on track to surpass 2020 in overdose deaths, which was a record-breaking year itself — 181 people fatally overdosed over the same time period in 2021.


Accidental overdose deaths in San Francisco have risen sharply in recent years. The number of deaths in just the first four months of 2021 exceeds 2017’s annual total of 222. The chief medical examiner’s data shows that overdose fatalities in San Francisco began to skyrocket in 2019, when fentanyl entered the city’s drug supply.


Fentanyl, often manufactured in China, often enters the U.S. illegally through the southern border, where the Biden administration has relaxed law enforcement.


Nonetheless, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) said earlier this month that the amount of fentanyl caught at the border had risen 800% in the past year.


In January, President Joe Biden rescinded an executive order signed by President Donald Trump to allow almost all doctors to prescribe buprenorphine, a treatment for opioid addiction.

[SalesServiceGuy]

Drug Overdoses Killed 2x More People in San Francisco than COVID-19


Drug overdoses killed more than 700 people in San Francisco in 2020, while the coronavirus pandemic — which shut down the city and accelerated an exodus — killed fewer than 300, and the overdose death rate is even worse in 2021.


The San Francisco Chronicle reported Saturday:


San Francisco suffered an epidemic in 2020 that was more deadly than COVID-19. Drug overdoses resulted in more than 700 deaths last year, while the communicable disease declared a global pandemic killed fewer than 300 — and 2021 looks to be even worse.


This year’s preliminary tally of 252 accidental overdose deaths from January to April, which is the latest available through the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, suggests San Francisco is on track to surpass 2020 in overdose deaths, which was a record-breaking year itself — 181 people fatally overdosed over the same time period in 2021.


Accidental overdose deaths in San Francisco have risen sharply in recent years. The number of deaths in just the first four months of 2021 exceeds 2017’s annual total of 222. The chief medical examiner’s data shows that overdose fatalities in San Francisco began to skyrocket in 2019, when fentanyl entered the city’s drug supply.


Fentanyl, often manufactured in China, often enters the U.S. illegally through the southern border, where the Biden administration has relaxed law enforcement.


Nonetheless, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) said earlier this month that the amount of fentanyl caught at the border had risen 800% in the past year.


In January, President Joe Biden rescinded an executive order signed by President Donald Trump to allow almost all doctors to prescribe buprenorphine, a treatment for opioid addiction.

... America's opioid and drug problems never went away because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Some progress was made forcing one of the worst oxycontin offenders, Purdue Pharma, out of business.

... the last statement is misleading.

"In January, President Joe Biden rescinded an executive order signed by President Donald Trump to allow almost all doctors to prescribe buprenorphine, a treatment for opioid addiction."

The Biden administration will allow nearly all providers to prescribe buprenorphine



Biden administration will let nearly all providers to prescribe buprenorphine

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By Lev Facher April 27, 2021





WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Tuesday announced it would move forward with a dramatic deregulation of addiction medicine first proposed by the Trump administration in January.

[skynet]

Also over a year late to the party with nothing constructive to contribute. FronhB's post he was replying to was #6 in the thread, posted 1/27/2020.

Maybe he has read the entire thread and FronhB's post was the only one he thought worth replying to with his insignificant remark.
But I digress.

[Phil B.]

Maybe he has read the entire thread and FronhB's post was the only one he thought worth replying to with his insignificant remark.
But I digress.

no he has followed slim and myself from the canon tech thread where he was called out for breaking forum rules. he seems to be related to bsm2 because he posts 5-9 nasty hate filled comments in a row..copiertech.Mike has been here since 2014 and until the other day had 52 posts ton of red cards and no rep points .. he's now up to 90 comments in just 2-3 days.

he is now the self proclaimed OWNER of ALL canon threads and has told blackcat4866.. Slim and myself we aren't welcome here on ctn! lomfl

[Phil B.]

I said when this first struck the world scene that China was responsible and that it was noticed by them before Jan 15th when they talked about it. #ChinaLies


Damning US intelligence says researchers at Wuhan lab hospitalized with COVID-like symptoms in fall 2019

Three researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology became sick enough with COVID-like symptoms in November 2019 that they required hospitalization, according to a damning American intelligence report.
The intelligence, which was first reported by the Wall Street Journal on Sunday, adds weight to the Wuhan lab leak theory, which suggests the COVID-19 pandemic originated inside China's only Biosafety level-4 laboratory.

This is the same lab that Fauxi gave our tax dollars to!

The intelligence is particularly significant because it suggests COVID-19 was spreading in China much earlier than China has admitted. China's communist government traced patient-zero to a man who became sick on Dec. 8. But if researchers at the Wuhan lab were hospitalized one month prior, the virus was likely spreading even earlier than previously believed.
One official familiar with the intelligence described it as "of exquisite quality."
"The information that we had coming from the various sources was of exquisite quality. It was very precise. What it didn't tell you was exactly why they got sick," the official told the press.
Another official told the press that while the intelligence was potentially significant, it needed further corroboration to be definitive.
The intelligence corroborates a fact sheet released by the State Department in the final days of the Trump administration, which cited classified intelligence and suggested COVID-19 may have escaped from the Wuhan lab via infected researchers.

That report said, "U.S. government has reason to believe that several researchers inside the WIV became sick in autumn 2019, before the first identified case of the outbreak, with symptoms consistent with both Covid-19 and seasonal illnesses."

China's Foreign Ministry bucked the intelligence, and continued to suggest COVID-19 originated in the United States.
"The U.S. continues to hype the lab leak theory," the foreign ministry told the press. "Is it actually concerned about tracing the source or trying to divert attention?"

China's communist government has infamously refused transparency with investigations surrounding the pandemic's origins.
"The Wuhan Institute hasn't shared raw data, safety logs and lab records on its extensive work with coronaviruses in bats, which many consider the most likely source of the virus," the press noted.

China has pointed to wet markets in Wuhan as the source of the pandemic.

A spokeswoman for the National Security Council reiterated concerns about the pandemic's origins, but declined to comment further.
"We continue to have serious questions about the earliest days of the Covid-19 pandemic, including its origins within the People's Republic of China," the spokeswoman said. "We're not going to make pronouncements that prejudge an ongoing WHO study into the source of SARS-CoV-2. As a matter of policy we never comment on intelligence issues."

The Wuhan lab leak theory has been widely denounced as a conspiracy theory despite a lack of evidence disproving the possibility.
In fact, aside from equally plausible origination theories, only the World Health Organization has said it was "extremely unlikely" COVID-19 came from the laboratory. But their conclusion came after a rushed investigation in which access to critical data was tightly controlled by Chinese authorities.
Indeed, 18 high-profile scientists published a letter this month calling for more investigations into the lab leak theory, saying, "Theories of accidental release from a lab and zoonotic spillover both remain viable."
The group even responded to the WHO's conclusion, which they rebuked because, as they explained, the WHO did not give the Wuhan lab leak theory "balanced consideration," writing, "Only 4 of the 313 pages of the report and its annexes addressed the possibility of a laboratory accident."
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the White House chief medical adviser, also said this month that he is no longer convinced COVID-19 originated naturally.

#ChinaLiesAboutEverything

[bsm2]

Omg Conspiracy Nuts today

HOOK LINE AND SINKER


DID YOU RUN OUT OF TISSUES YET?

[copier addict]

In addition if you take that amount over a 52 week year and divide it by 12 months it works out to being $1300.00 a month, which is about what a lot of senior citizens receive a month from Social Security.

Exactly!! And if you say this is a lot of money you are either lying or you got ripped off at you last job.

[BillyCarpenter]

Exactly!! And if you say this is a lot of money you are either lying or you got ripped off at you last job.

I keep trying to explain to you that you're simply not that bright. But the problem with "slow" folks is that they don't know that they're "slow".


Back on topic: A "lot of money" is relative. Isn't it? To Bill Gates, a million dollars is chump change. To a liberal free loader, $1300.00 per month is a "lot of money."

[copier addict]

I keep trying to explain to you that you're simply not that bright. But the problem with "slow" folks is that they don't know that they're "slow".


Back on topic: A "lot of money" is relative. Isn't it? To Bill Gates, a million dollars is chump change. To a liberal free loader, $1300.00 per month is a "lot of money."

$1300 is not even close to a lot of money, whether one is a liberal or a conservative. Employers need to pay people a living wage. Obviously you are getting underpaid if you believe $1300 per month is a lot of money. Go talk to your boss a ask for a raise boy! Stand up for yourself.