Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
Novemeber 11, 2017
This is America in 2017: you have to worry about grocery shopping with your kids, as you may be exposed to deadly drugs and die from it accidentally.
What a brave new future we have entered.
If you’ve spent any time on the internet recently, you might have seen that viral warning from the Leachville Police Department in Arkansas. Though it has since been deleted from the department’s Facebook page, it had many families with small children shivering in fear at the danger of their local grocery store.
According to the department, parents and shoppers of all ages should meticulously sanitize their shopping carts before roaming a store’s aisles – or else risk overdosing on deadly drugs.
The drug of particular concern was fentanyl, an opioid pain medication that gives users a short, intense high. It wouldn’t take much of this concentrated substance to threaten the life of a small child – spurring severe concern from the local PD. The idea behind the warning was that drug users in the community might inadvertently leave drugs on cart handles “if they have fentanyl or something like that still on their hands.”
“All you’d have to do is rub your nose or touch your child’s mouth,” the post warned. “Children just being exposed to the powder or residue is a bad situation that can turn deadly.”
Deputy Administrator Jack Riley explained in a three-page document attached to the post: “Fentanyl can kill you. It is 40 to 50 times stronger than street-level heroin. A very small amount ingested, or absorbed through your skin, can kill you.”
Understandably, citizens were concerned. Shoppers were frantically wiping their carts down with the wipes provided at store entrances and fretting over the potential of overdose every time they entered the store.
But while sanitizing your cart is probably a good idea, the concern about drug poisoning was more than a little misplaced.
Chad Sabora, one of the founders of the Missouri Network for Opiate Reform and Recovery, told CBS that the chances of sickness or overdose from exposure on a shopping cart is “completely impossible.”
I have no idea if it is possible or impossible. It seems unlikely – but it’s also unlikely that if you’re filling your car up with gas while smoking that the whole place will explode, yet we control for that.
The department has apologized for the post.
The post about the fentanyl was sent so me from another officer at another Department. I simply shared it. I’m should have checked into it further before I posted it. Sorry for the confusion
Posted by Leachville Police Department on Donnerstag, 9. November 2017
But this is now out there. It is now something on people’s minds. And that isn’t going to go away.
We live in a society that is collapsing in on itself in real time.
We were promised a city on Mars, instead we’re wiping down shopping carts so our babies don’t accidentally die of a drug overdose while we’re buying food.