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Apr 29 2023
07:12 am
Should Blackburn expand her priorities?
By: bizgrrl

U.S. Sen. Blackburn, TN, pushes constantly to fight the drug crisis at the border, which she blames on Pres. Biden.

When has she tried to help control the pandemic crisis? How often has she pushed for vaccines? How often has she fought to help the local health departments with the COVID 19 pandemic?

According to Blackburn 107,000 people died of drug overdoses from August 2021 to August 2022. This is a very sad situation that needs our continued attention.

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Over 406,000 people died from COVID 19 from August 2021 to August 2022. Nearly 100,000 people have died from COVID 19 in the past 8 months, August 2022 to April 2023. Data from the CDC COVID Data Tracker.

Where is her concern when people shun viable vaccines? Where is her concern when people shun wearing masks?

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CDC COVID Data Tracker As of

Submitted by bizgrrl on Sat, 2023/04/29 - 7:14am.

CDC COVID Data Tracker

As of April 1st, 2023, the state of Iowa no longer reports aggregate COVID-19 case or death data to CDC.

August 18, 2021
Covid-19 deaths
629,291

August 17, 2022
Covid-19 deaths
1,035,405

406,114 1 year

April 26, 2023
Covid-19 deaths
1,130,662

95,257 8 months

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Tennessean The Center for

Submitted by R. Neal on Sat, 2023/04/29 - 8:41am.

Tennessean

The Center for Responsive Politics reports that Blackburn has raked in almost $800,000 in campaign contributions from Big Pharma for her Congressional career. In return, she passed legislation in 2016 that defanged the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) by stripping it of its authority to freeze suspicious opioid shipments.

Now that Blackburn is asking us to promote her to the United States Senate, she uses the legislative process to push around bills that nibble at the edges of the opioid epidemic and do nothing to address the real problem – all so she can tell voters that she’s doing something to fix a problem that she helped create in the first place.

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