Posted on 11/12/2023 2:17:55 PM PST by thecodont
Pharmacies were once abundant in the South Side of Chicago. Now, residents living in the majority Black neighborhood often find themselves with few options when it’s time to get a prescription refilled or stock up on cold medicine.
Ladell Johnson, a longtime resident of the South Side, drives half an hour from her house to the downtown area every time she needs to pick up her prescription. “Luckily, this pharmacy is close to where I work, but my house is half an hour away by car or one hour by bus,” she said. “If I didn’t have a car, I would have to walk 20 blocks one way to my closest pharmacy.”
As pharmacies shutter stores across the U.S., people in low-income and predominantly Black, Latino, and Indigenous neighborhoods are increasingly left in pharmacy deserts, without easy access to medications and other essentials. In November 2021, CVS announced that it would be closing 300 stores a year across the country in the next three years, and Rite Aid, which filed for bankruptcy in October, plans to close at least 150 stores in the next several months.
“Pharmacy deserts have been a longstanding issue that has gotten worse with recent closures of both independent and chain pharmacies,” said Dima Qato, an associate professor at the University of Southern California School of Pharmacy, who studies disparities in geographic access to pharmacies and spent more than a decade working as a community pharmacist in Chicago. That lack of access can have major consequences for the health of people living in marginalized communities.
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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.
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......
The leftist media (but I’m just repeating myself) just have to drag race into everything, don’t they.
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?
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.
“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.
Do the whining to your feral neighbors who've caused it all.
*spit*
locals saying, give me all your Class-A narcotics, while holding a gun, leads to that...
World ends tomorrow.
Minorities hit hardest.
Quit stealing. Then you may not have a so-called desert.
Yep. Voted black and Dim. Skin color and false promises over morals.
Then, lots of people stole stuff out of 'em, and they closed down.
...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.
“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/
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.
Yeah. Because the rotten ferals raised in a rotten culture perpetrated by rotten parents have nothing to do with it.
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.
Whitey’s fault.
A shoplifting oasis soon becomes a shopping desert.
A crime oasis in the midst of a shopping desert! Who could ever have foreseen this?
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