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Soaring costs for basic essentials have led to a decline in living standards in the country
https://www.rt.com/business/575643-uk-soaring-food-costs/
May 11, 2023
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British households have been hit with a record jump in food prices as decades-high inflation continues to cripple the economy, according to the latest figures from the British Retail Consortium (BRC).
A report by the trade body, which represents UK supermarkets, showed on Tuesday that fresh food prices soared by 17.8% in April on an annual basis, while prices for tinned goods and other store-cupboard items accelerated by 12.9%.
According to the BRC-NielsenIQ shop price index, prices were up 8.8% last month compared to the same period in the previous year, while slightly down from 8.9% in March.
“Overall shop price inflation eased slightly in April due to heavy spring discounting in clothing, footwear and furniture,” BRC chief executive Helen Dickinson was quoted as saying by Sky News. “However, food prices remained elevated given ongoing cost pressures throughout the supply chain,” she added.
Dickinson indicated that some goods, such as ready meals, have been seeing price rises due to “the knock-on effect” from increased production and packaging costs.
READ MORE: Bank of England tells Britons to accept they are poorer
Meanwhile, the head of retail and business insight at NielsenIQ, Mike Watkins, noted that with inflation yet to peak and sales volumes mostly in decline, “it’s difficult to second guess the strength of consumer confidence.”
Official figures showed last month that the rate of inflation in Britain had eased slightly but still remains above 10%, with food and drink costs at a 45-year high.
According to the Trussell Trust charity, almost three million emergency food parcels have been handed out at UK food banks in the past year, with the number provided for children topping a million for the first time.
The Bank of England’s chief economist, Huw Pill, stated earlier that British households and businesses needed to accept that they are poorer and should stop asking for wage increases and pushing prices higher.
The number of people who died from overdoses this year is 41% higher than the same period in 2022.
https://www.sott.net/article/480116-Enormous-41-spike-in-overdose-deaths-in-San-Francisco-in-2023
Christian Leonard
San Francisco Chronicle
Thu, 27 Apr 2023
The number of people who died from overdoses this year is 41% higher than the same period in 2022.
Narcan is a nasal-spray drug that can immediately reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. Two hundred people died from accidental drug overdoses in San Francisco from January through March, a nearly 41% increase from the 142 deaths reported for the first three months last year.
Fatal overdoses in San Francisco killed dozens more people in the first three months of this year compared with the same period last year. It is an alarming jump that frustrates hopes that the city’s overdose numbers would decline post-pandemic. Rather, overdose deaths have returned to the highs seen in 2020 during lockdowns.
Comment: Lockdowns were indeed harmful, but the fallout caused by lockdowns has made life many times worse for people. And that’s before considering the added burden of soaring inflation.
Two hundred people died from accidental drug overdoses from January through March, medical examiner data shows, with the vast majority of deaths involving fentanyl. That reflects a nearly 41% increase from the 142 deaths reported for the first three months last year.
“That’s an enormous rise,” said Dr. Daniel Ciccarone, a professor of family and community medicine at UCSF. “And it shows an utter lack of adequate public policy.”
Comment: San Francisco is at the forefront of dystopian public policy, which is why, along with New York and a number of other ‘liberal’ states, people are escaping in their hundreds of thousands.
Even before the recent increase, San Francisco had among the highest overdose rates of large U.S. counties. The issue has drawn the attention of Gov. Gavin Newsom, who visited the Tenderloin and South of Market neighborhoods with city officials on Wednesday to discuss the fentanyl crisis.
The increase in fatal overdoses was especially pronounced among people who may have been experiencing homelessness. While 26 overdose victims with “no fixed address” died during the three-month period last year, that number more than doubled, to 61, during the same period this year.
Ciccarone said homeless people who use drugs are “doubly ignored,” experiencing both a lack of services and a sense of hostility from the larger community. Research from UCSF found that deaths of homeless people doubled in the first year of the pandemic, largely from drug overdoses. And a Chronicle investigation found that even inside city-funded hotels meant to get people off the streets, hundreds have died from overdoses.
Comment: Government funded accommodation is but one service people with these complex problems need.
Overdose deaths among Latino and Black people have also seen a particularly large increase in 2023. Drug overdoses killed 34 Latino people in the 2023 period, a 62% increase from the 21 deaths last year, while deaths of Black people rose by 61%, from 41 to 66.
Black San Franciscans are far more likely to die of an overdose than people of other racial groups relative to their population, according to medical examiner data.
White people made up the largest segment of the city’s overdose deaths in early 2023, but the tally increased by a much smaller percentage: 9%, from 70 to 76.
Ciccarone largely attributed the increase in deaths to the closure of the Tenderloin Center in December. The center’s staff reversed more than 300 overdoses from when it opened in January 2022 to when it closed in December.
Mayor London Breed closed the center less than a year after opening it, saying that the site wasn’t helping enough people get into treatment. Fewer than 1% of visits resulted in such connections.
Ciccarone believes the Tenderloin Center, despite its flaws, prevented deaths and helped people who use drugs feel more comfortable seeking treatment.
“We simply didn’t let the project last long enough to see the benefits,” he said.
San Francisco’s Department of Public Health didn’t answer questions from The Chronicle regarding whether the closure of the Tenderloin Center contributed to rising deaths. But the department pointed to the city’s recent initiatives to deal with the crisis, including expanding a drug treatment facility and increasing access to addiction medication.
“These deaths drive us to find more ways to prevent overdoses and reduce the harms caused by fentanyl, which drive these deaths, and by other substances as well,” the department said in a statement.
But Ciccarone said the city still isn’t doing enough to reduce fatal overdoses, including opening a supervised drug consumption site.
“We’ve turned our hearts off,” he said.
Comment: Meanwhile Canada and the Netherlands are opting for outright euthanasia:
https://www.sott.net/article/480083-Robert-Kennedy-Jr-America-Needs-a-Revolution
UnHerd
Thu, 04 May 2023
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
The 2024 outsider on Biden, Ukraine and Covid misinformation
For decades, as a scion of the Kennedy family and environmental litigator, Robert F. Kennedy Jr was considered an establishment hero. In recent years, however, his rhetoric against Covid lockdowns and vaccines sealed his reputation among most commentators as irresponsible and potentially dangerous. So, since he announced that he was running for president two weeks ago, challenging Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination, he has presented the establishment media with something of a conundrum. He is already polling at 20% — should he be ignored or interrogated?
UnHerd‘s Freddie Sayers invited RFK Jr. to the studio to discuss his campaign promises and get behind the controversies.
Comment: Kennedy is far and away the best candidate the Democrats could field, so expect him to be frozen out the way Tulsi Gabbard was in 2020. The Kennedy name still holds some magic, so he may be able to bring issues to the fore that would otherwise be ignored. We shall see.
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