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Collected Item: “Heroin Bigger Killer than Covid”

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Heroin Bigger Killer than Covid

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

Screenshot from Reddit

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

COVID-19 skeptics argue that the death rate of COVID is exaggerated in comparison to other causes of death. This post argues that heroin is a bigger killer but is being ignored. The commenter rebukes this by asking the last time someone caught a heroin overdose from a sneeze or cough. This was shared on http://reddit.com/r/insanepeoplefacebook by a person who laments their Facebook feed is full of petiole who think like the overdose poster.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

#skeptic #heroin #overdose

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

u/SkuzzillButt

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2020-05-23
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