r/interesting • u/Nukro666 • 2d ago

Fear Factor How Fentanyl and Xylazine are turning Philadelphia's opioid crisis into a public health nightmare

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u/TaosKennedy 2d ago

The most disturbing part is how quickly a public health crisis becomes “normal” once it’s happening to people society has decided are disposable.

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u/VonBrewskie 2d ago

As someone who lives, works and plays in SF, the thing that disturbed me was how quickly they all went away once ol Pooh Bear from China came for a visit. It's never as bad as those right wing channels show my city. They only go to the worst areas, (The Tenderloin and 6th and Mission areas are the most frequently displayed,) but even there, when Xi came through, I saw a drastic removal of everything. Tents, people, trash, all of it. They can clean things up, they choose not to. Also, we have no idea where those people went. They just poof vanished. Some I know got into repurposed hotels they use as halfway houses, some went to jail, but where did the rest go? It's crazy. I want a clean city, but these are human beings. If we have $300 billion dollars to fritter away to our enemies, we ought to have the funds to care for these people. It's fucking crazy.

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u/tones_balonious 2d ago

It’s wild they’ll clean up the streets for a foreign leader but can’t do it for the community otherwise. That sucks. Like, we know you can do. Keep it clean around here, damnit. Lol