Has anyone else wondered this same question? What is in these new drugs that turns users into stooped over Zombies? Drugs have been with us for decades. Open air usage in Vancouver, for example, has been going on since the Nineties. But who in their life ever saw junkies like these we see today? We have all heard about Fentanyl of course. Yes its a synthetic and yes its stronger than heroin. But maybe there is more to it than meets the eye because it seems to me someone is contaminating the products with brain altering chemicals or possibly even nano materials. These people are not normal anymore. They have been chemically lobotomized.

Can they even come back to human once afflicted?

And why are they comparing any of this to Third World countries? I read the linked ZeroHedge article and instantly thought I should respond. Let me quote from the first few sentences to help explain why the comparison is so absurd and why it requires an answer from a resident of Africa.

https://tinyurl.com/mr47hw8w

“…it’s challenging to find just one well-managed major city under Democratic leadership. Many of these metro areas have collapsed into a third-world-like state, plagued with violent crime, homelessness, out-of-control shoplifting, open-air drug markets, and even some with shit-covered streets”.

Third World like states. Wow, that is a mouth full. But its sure as hell not the Third World where I live. I have spent many years in East Africa across four different nations and have NEVER seen anything even close to approximating the insanity taking place in North American cities. There is no shoplifting sprees here never mind any that are out of control. Thieves are punished harshly almost everywhere, property is mostly respected. The best place I ever lived was in Egypt where you could literally walk away from a cafe table to get a newspaper and come back an hour later to find all your property still waiting for you. Including wallet and keys!

And I have never seen much homelessness. Not American style anyway. Most people have a place to go although there are certainly pockets here and there where the mentally ill squat. And there are slums but they can be quite built up and well organized despite the obvious poverty. But full encampments of tents, mad addicts and strewn garbage with open air toilets and feces smeared on the pavement? Never, never, never, never, NEVER have I witnessed that before!

I have never, ever seen that in the Third World.

I have never witnessed plagues of violence either. Its civil in every place I lived. Granted you must avoid certain areas. But that is true of every city. Nor have I ever seen even one single open air drug bazzar let alone crack addicts roaming the streets or shooting up in public. None of these obvious signs of social decay exist here. You may be pleasantly surprised to know people who are poor can still live lives of honor, dignity, self respect and independence in spite of zero state supports. But they can. Even the slums are not the feared places you may imagine. They are populated by a cross section of people and are self policed. There are educated people among the groups. There are priests and Imams there too.  There are entire families and children living together.

Sorry America. What you are suffering is uniquely disturbing and it is horrendous beyond belief. There is simply no equal for that kind of destitution and squalor. What I am seeing coming out of the US and Canada in photos and videos is a literal vision of hell on Earth.

Please don’t compare it to the Third World.