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How pharmacy deserts are putting the health of Black and Latino Americans at risk
STAT ^ | Nov. 10, 2023 | By Anika Nayak

Posted on 11/12/2023 2:17:55 PM PST by thecodont

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To: thecodont

This is a real problem. The people who live in those neighborhoods should be very upset with the defund-the-police crowd, the DAs not prosecuting vandalism and theft, and most of all at the thugs who make doing business in the ‘desert’ undoable.


61 posted on 11/12/2023 3:53:06 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I read that whole article waiting for even one sentence on criminal behavior, i.e., theft as in shoplifting and shrinkage by employees being a driving force for these chains to close in the ghetto. Silence. It was deafening. And obviously clear. Just like the grocery stores......


62 posted on 11/12/2023 4:13:18 PM PST by john drake (Lucius Accius-Roman,170 BC - "oderint dum metuant" translated "Let them hate so long as they fear")
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To: thecodont

The leftist media (but I’m just repeating myself) just have to drag race into everything, don’t they.


63 posted on 11/12/2023 4:18:00 PM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: thecodont

How long before some Democrat introduces a bill to have Medicare provide pharmacies in the inner cities for marginalized communities because this is problem that only the Federal Government can solve?


64 posted on 11/12/2023 4:18:09 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: xp38

So then tell the “poor” people to stop stripping the stores bare! The “oppressed” people who have to drive a half hour are suffering because of the thieves in their midst.

What will the government do? Open “free” drug dispensaries? Paid for by the people who DIDN’T shoplift.


65 posted on 11/12/2023 4:18:14 PM PST by I want the USA back (Democracy dies when you take away from those who work and give to those who won't. Khrushchev.)
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To: thecodont
Abraham Lincoln understood these people...
“Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.”
Rob, steal, plunder and pillage the stores, then the stores leave. Whoever would have thought that?

Then they complain about no stores. Maybe these complainers should have thought about that when they were spawning and raising uncivilized feral savages who have zero regard for the law.

There's a reason a civilized society has laws, police forces, DAs, judges, jails, and prisons. When you build a civilized society with those tools developed over thousands of years, you can have nice things, stores abound, and goods are plentiful.

When you upend thousands of years of human experience and take us back to pre-civilizational times, this is what you get.

66 posted on 11/12/2023 4:18:57 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: thecodont
If I didn’t have a car, I would have to walk 20 blocks one way to my closest pharmacy

Do the whining to your feral neighbors who've caused it all.

*spit*

67 posted on 11/12/2023 4:22:35 PM PST by tomkat
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locals saying, give me all your Class-A narcotics, while holding a gun, leads to that...


68 posted on 11/12/2023 4:45:55 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: thecodont

World ends tomorrow.
Minorities hit hardest.


69 posted on 11/12/2023 4:50:53 PM PST by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: thecodont

Quit stealing. Then you may not have a so-called desert.


70 posted on 11/12/2023 4:53:38 PM PST by vpintheak (There is no Trans. There is only mentally ill)
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To: BobL

Yep. Voted black and Dim. Skin color and false promises over morals.


71 posted on 11/12/2023 4:54:40 PM PST by vpintheak (There is no Trans. There is only mentally ill)
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To: thecodont
Pharmacies were once abundant in the South Side of Chicago.

Then, lots of people stole stuff out of 'em, and they closed down.

72 posted on 11/12/2023 4:54:58 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: thecodont

...and why aren’t there any drug stores in the area???? Shoplifting put all the drug stores out of business. For the love of God they had to put toothpaste behind locked cabinets.


73 posted on 11/12/2023 4:56:42 PM PST by mware
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To: thecodont

“The article mentions mobile pharmacies as a possible solution but I don’t know how well they’d fare in some bad neighborhoods.”

This is totally doable—just put the name of the pharmacy on this vehicle and you are good to go:

https://www.army-technology.com/projects/mobile-protected-firepower-ground-combat-vehicle-usa/


74 posted on 11/12/2023 4:57:02 PM PST by cgbg ("Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." Anna Freud.)
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To: thecodont
I call BS. I have lived in Miami Dade County Florida and northern Hudson County, NJ and there are no shortages of pharmacies in either Hispanic majority area. My Latina wife never has trouble getting prescriptions and everyone knows that Walgreens is the largest retailer on Puerto Rico.

Hate how the lefties and some on the right love to throw Hispanics in with blacks. Even worse is when they call Hispanics “brown.” Vivek Ramiswamy is a brown person, not Marco Rubio.

75 posted on 11/12/2023 5:00:28 PM PST by Clemenza
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To: thecodont

Yeah. Because the rotten ferals raised in a rotten culture perpetrated by rotten parents have nothing to do with it.


76 posted on 11/12/2023 5:31:07 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: thecodont

Right on que...waves of urban drug stores closing down because they are being looted into insolvency....and now the wailing and gnashing of teeth over the urban drug store deserts that result. It’s almost as if it was planned this way.


77 posted on 11/12/2023 5:36:46 PM PST by rottndog (What comes after America?)
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To: thecodont

Whitey’s fault.


78 posted on 11/12/2023 5:37:05 PM PST by Old Yeller
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To: Fai Mao

A shoplifting oasis soon becomes a shopping desert.


79 posted on 11/12/2023 5:49:38 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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To: xp38

A crime oasis in the midst of a shopping desert! Who could ever have foreseen this?


80 posted on 11/12/2023 5:50:41 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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