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Wuhan’s Other Epidemic
City Journal ^ | May 12, 2020 | Christopher F. Rufo

Posted on 05/12/2020 2:50:29 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat

...Over the past decade, Wuhan has emerged as the global headquarters for fentanyl production. The city’s chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturers hide production of the drug within their larger, licit manufacturing operations, then ship it abroad using deliberately mislabeled packaging, concealment techniques, and a complex network of forwarding addresses. According to a recent ABC News report, “huge amounts of these mail-order [fentanyl] components can be traced to a single, state-subsidized company in Wuhan.”

Earlier this year, when Wuhan went into lockdown due to the coronavirus, North America’s illegal drug market went into panic mode. Drug cartels in Mexico forecasted a massive spike in prices for fentanyl and methamphetamine; law-enforcement officials in the U.S. reported a shortage of drugs in Denver, Houston, and Philadelphia. Still, the drug continues to kill. Even amid state lockdown orders, street dealers in places like San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood have donned gloves and masks and continued distributing Chinese-supplied fentanyl to addicts...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: addiction; cartels; drugs; fentanyl; mexico; wod; wuhan

1 posted on 05/12/2020 2:50:29 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
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To: CheshireTheCat

Where are the CDC/NIH/FDA and Fauxcy on this?

Sending more US Gov’t $$$ to the Wuhan Bat Virus Enhancement Lab?


2 posted on 05/12/2020 2:52:24 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: CheshireTheCat

This is no longer in the dark behind the curtain under ground, we need action and a big stick


3 posted on 05/12/2020 2:55:20 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: CheshireTheCat

Six months ago two things I wanted a lot but thought would never happen was a slowdown of fentanyl import and bringing back manufacturing to the US.


4 posted on 05/12/2020 2:55:55 PM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: CheshireTheCat
According to a recent ABC News report, “huge amounts of these mail-order [fentanyl] components can be traced to a single, state-subsidized company in Wuhan.”

I wonder if Soros was an investor...

5 posted on 05/12/2020 3:31:09 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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