Hey, remember what happened when the strait of Hormuz closed? Wait until that happens with our medicines. Maybe we shouldn’t be relying on a handful of other countries to manufacture everything we rely on.
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Yes, however, “made in America” meds will be even more expensive than the existing overpriced drugs to make up for the infrastructure costs and importing of ingredients. That’s before the massive socioeconomic and political change to even consider dismantling the healthcare system that’s fucking us over to start, along with repairing our relations with the countries that supply ingredients. Kinda shot ourselves in the dick about 200 times.
The feds should make their own generic drugs for the military, in the US, so that we have a fallback system. Charge it to the pentagon budget.
Given people losing eyes to eyedrops I can't really trust we have any quality control with us goods.
I had to look that one up. Jesus christ...
yeah and its kinda insane I feel like things like this are kinda shrug. This type of thing is actually the thing that most makes me want to live somewhere else. I mean I don't want to abandon the world to this rogue state but how non functional we are now is tiring and depressing.
I get it. I'm Canadian and though we have a lot more social supports and a more effective government, at the moment, it's by no means optimal. Doug Ford is fucking up Ontario and Alberta wants to be Alabama 2.
Tiring and depressing is absolutely right.
I kinda feel bad for anyone who did not reach an age of cognition before the millenia. Like I was kinda born such that I was just able to see the good and functional kind of state but its been downhill the whole time just real slow to start so its like we has just crested the hill so I could kinda still see it. Don't get me wrong there have been some good economic times and some progress but it feels like it was two steps forward and one back but then one forward and back and went to two back and one forward and now finally all backwards.
Pidgeon shit seems to be fair game for the FDA. I always assume some pidgeon shit, when consuming something in the USA.
My shower thought: I either have several food allergies, or one pidgeon shit allergy.