Posted on 04/27/2016 7:06:16 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
BALTIMORE - The immense new CVS dominates the corner of Pennsylvania and West North avenues.
It's a contrast that shows what's changed and what hasn't in the past year, since Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man, died of injuries sustained in police custody, unleashing days of protests.
But if 2015's protests emphasized police brutality and race relations, the absence of more stores like CVS that are easily accessible to people in impoverished, predominantly black neighborhoods underscores Baltimore's other persistent inequities.
Scarcity defines life in Sandtown-Winchester, the 72-block neighborhood where Gray lived for part of his life. Its roughly 9,000 residents are underserved by primary care doctors, by supermarkets that sell healthy food and by full-service retail pharmacies where anyone can pick up a prescription, buy a bottle of aspirin and a few groceries all in the same trip.
No major retail pharmacies have outlets inside Sandtown. CVS, the closest to a real grocery store, is near but outside the neighborhood, as are Keystone and Care One, which don't offer the same variety. Total Health Care, a local community health center, operates two pharmacies on the neighborhood's border, but they also lack the non-medical variety of a CVS or Rite Aid.
Joseph, Total Health Care’s pharmacy director, said CVS and Keystone likely serve the most people in the area. But they aren’t enough, she added.
"If we had as many pharmacies as we had liquor stores, it would provide us more opportunity to educate, and promote health and wellness, as opposed to alcohol and cigarettes," she said. "You ride down the streets and what do you see? Abandoned home, abandoned home, abandoned home and liquor store. Bringing that CVS back says a lot for the city."
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Yep, blame the crackers for refusing to do business in Rat-controlled ghettos that will get burned down.
first post, best post. lol.
Cry me a river
It’s really none of the public’s business. If the locals thought this was important...they’d treat it that way. Obviously, on a scale of one to ten....it’s marginally a one. So get over it, and drive another twenty minutes to a drug store that remains open (for the time being). If it gets robbed big-time....well....add another thirty minutes onto that.
“If we had as many pharmacies as we had liquor stores”
Supply and demand.
A couple of police sharpshooters could put an end to that.
To those who didn’t understand the picture:
“Quit burnin’ ‘em down, bitches!”
Thank you.
CC
Lets see. If that is 72 blocks that is likely to be 9 blocks by 8 blocks or so. From the center of such an area it is at about 4 blocks to the edge of the area. That does not seem too far to walk to get out of the "underserved" area and into the "properly served" areas. In a car it would take at most five minutes. Your 20 minute estimate is probably very generous!
In today’s liberal world there is no real solution possible.
Liberals want it the way it is.
This mess can be fixed, but not as long as liberals control the narrative as any “fix” would include holding individual accountable for their action, and in today’s world that is just so RACIST!
Many liberal policies are by designed to keep this segment of the population down.
No discipline in schools.
The great Society of the Federal Government becoming the bread winner of the family.
Ever increasing minimum wage so that the first step out of poverty is moved further out of reach.
There is little chance for someone (white or black) who does not have the ability to read, write, and talk (in normal English and without attitude or profanity)
The great society took the man out of the family (remember a man at home and no money for you). No man, no discipline.
Increase minimum wage. Where does anyone learn how to work and hold a job? Back when minimum wage (and lot fewer restriction on hiring and firing) a business could take a chance on an individual and if it did not work out, kick them to the curb. Today that is almost impossible.
Even the military is no longer a road out of poverty, with out a high school diploma you are not going to get in.
Drug stores matter?
Who knew?
Whiffs of a cargo cult mentality.
This is a sick, primitive culture, unable to look inward, and able to find fault with everyone but themselves.
It's just more of the same ol' same ol' Gibsmedat.
Us pros just call it "The Gibs".
I wish there was a way for neighborhoods to attract the pharmacies they want. Baltimore tried one strategy a year ago, and it doesn’t seem to have worked as well as expected.
... until it's burned down. Then, a giant smoking hole will dominate the corner of Pennsylvania and West North avenues.
Too many liquor stores? Simple solution. The local residents can stop patronizing them and they will leave. Lack of supermarkets selling healthy food? Michelle Obama should come in and demand that the local supermarkets stop selling unhealthy food.
Too many liquor stores? Simple solution. The local residents can stop patronizing them and they will leave. Lack of supermarkets selling healthy food? Michelle Obama should come in and demand that the local supermarkets stop selling unhealthy food.
Nearest pharmacy to me is 3 miles and there ain't no public transportation or sidewalks.
My voting district is 97% White so it must be White Privilege that I can call the pharmacy and ask them to DELIVER the prescription which I'm sure CVS did, at least until they couldn't find anymore drivers because they keep getting robbed and shot.
I see Kaiser doesn’t allow comments on the article, probably a wise move.
Russell Simmons and Jay-Z are worth a BILLION dollars. Why don’t they open some drugstores and supermarkets in da hood? What could possibly go wrong with that investment?
Venezuela Imposes 2 Day Work Week To Save Energy
Substitute Baltimore or any democrat run city instead of Venezuela
Artificial shortages and rampart crime.
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