[txsoftwaredev]

One issue is having an open border that allows trafficking of deadly drugs.

"Between 2020 and 2021, nearly 79,000 people between 18 and 45 years old — 37,208 in 2020 and 41,587 in 2021 — died of fentanyl overdoses, the data analysis from opioid awareness organization Families Against Fentanyl shows."

We also push vaccines during a pandemic that was primarily killing the obese in the greatest numbers but no mention of exercise and a reasonable diet.

[chmod775]

>One issue is having an open border that allows trafficking of deadly drugs

By this logic the US should have higher life expectancy than the countries it's being compared to.

>We also push vaccines during a pandemic that was primarily killing the obese in the greatest numbers but no mention of exercise and a reasonable diet.

When you're trying to explain differences you should focus on things that are actually... different. Obesity, maybe. Vaccines, not so much.

[txsoftwaredev]

My point was the messaging from the various "authorities" in the US. They only pushed vaccines, they never said that it's time to focus on your weight and exercise.

[corrral]

Saying "lose weight" doesn't work. Ask some doctors—once their eyes stop rolling, they'll tell you how rarely counseling patients about weight loss has any effect. Further, it certainly won't help much when you're dealing with a timeframe best measured in months.

[notch656a]

It's not the accessibility of deadly drugs as much as the unknown variability in the drugs addicts use, causing them to unexpectedly overdose. One could make a compelling argument these drug deaths are actually because the borders aren't freely open to wholesale lab produced narcotics.

[loudmax]

The War on Drugs has to be one of the biggest blunders of the 20th century. Attempting to block fentanyl at the borders is a fool's errand and blaming Mexico for supplying US demand is misguided and unjust.

The reason the pandemic is winding down is thanks to the vaccines being pushed. Exercise and a healthy diet was Michelle Obama's pet cause, but that didn't get picked up during the next administration.