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Inisfad's avatar

A good reason for the US to begin its own manufacturing. Do you really want your medicine to come from China??

Laura's avatar

It will take years if not decades. Manufacturing facilities just do not pop up. From the site selection, environmental studies, federal, state and local planning and zoning processes, building permits and supply chain logistics. They need major highways, rail and air hubs close by. Not to mention adequate water and electric capacity. Plus the big clog in the process is an adequate employment base. Considering half or more of US adults cannot read beyond a 6th grade level is very problematic. I certainly would not want someone that uneducated making pharmaceuticals. Thank goodness I don’t need any. What I take is purely preventative, aka hormone based and vitamins. Maybe this will be a place for the robots who will be overtaking most everyone’s jobs. Then we must also consider that we have effectively pissed off the entire world, you know the very places we need the raw ingredients from to make these pharmaceuticals, aka China and India.

gus gaster's avatar

I'd rather it south of the border, before we make it or we import it from China.

Stephen North's avatar

Make stuff here then. Problem solved.

John Ost's avatar

Even if made here the same percentage of healthcare goods are petroleum based. Examine ones lifestyle to be healthy. Stay out if the medical system.

Allie's avatar

Just some of the reasons we need to bring manufacturing back to the US. We must not be dependent on any other nation for essential items.

TheArtistFormerlyKnownAs. . .'s avatar

This underscores the strategic brilliance behind Trump's surprising decision to wield Tariffs (a traditional and constitutional tool intended and employed by our Founding Fathers), bilateral trade agreements, the prioritization of repatriation of manufacturing back to the US, and the turn-key US solution to Britain's attempt to cripple international trade by having Lloyds of London pull out of insuring ships in the Straight of Hormuz. Additionally, beyond issues of international shipping, US dependency upon an adversary such as China for anything significant (pharmaceuticals, steel, building supplies, machinery, etc.) is a National Security risk that introduces fragility and vulnerability which bipartisan Presidents Bushes father & son, Clinton, Obama and Biden have intentionally ignored as they aggressively outsourced US manufacturing, jobs and independence for the benefit of corporate profits, corporate political donations, the intentional Deindustrialization/Managed Decline of the US and outright criminal grift.

gus gaster's avatar

If any of these drug can cure why do you have to keep refilling a prescription?

TheArtistFormerlyKnownAs. . .'s avatar

You point to the heart of the lucrative contemporary Big Pharma/Big Med business model: sick care rather than wellness/health optimization. However, even with all the grift of our current Rockefeller medical system, there are still many legit pharmaceuticals that we need access to: antibiotics, pain killers, anesthesia. So even pharmaceutical manufacturing needs to be repatriated back to the US.

gus gaster's avatar

legit pharmaceuticals = legit wife beater

Dan Star's avatar

Ever since modern Rockefeller Oil-based drugs were have gotten sicker and sicker.

Philip Lewis's avatar

Never thought I would see Dr. McCullough's name on such an emotional fear mongering article. It reminds me of the what he bravely stood against in the Covid era.

Brad Parsons's avatar

Hydrogel is a polymer. We can do with less hydrogel. Lipid nano particle B.S.

Sharon's avatar

We shouldn’t have been using petrochemicals like naphtha and we don’t need propylene or glycol in feedstock. I’m glad this is happening.

Peaceful one's avatar

This is just another go around of supply chain disruption as they planned in 2020 and 2021. Nothing knew to see here folks. Get ready to pay much more for all plastic products and all things made from petrochemicals if the globalist elites have their way, and they always have THEIR way.

gus gaster's avatar

What could possibly be wrong with less poisons in our bodies? This is far better than stopping drugs south of the border. At least with the southern drugs you feel better before it you die.

Thomas A Braun RPh's avatar

The reality is that we have over 10,000 different drugs available and we are a over medicated society that is producing many side effects that are especially impacting seniors. In my view, we can cut many of the drugs that are chemical manipulations of the basic drug and do fine.

David Kukkee's avatar

Thank you, Dr. McCullough for this intelligent analysis of the state of affairs currently threatening all of those who lack understanding of real world consequences, as well as those who remain lucid, and retain clarity of thought. Clearly, the CEO's of the past several decades have been lacking in circumspection and critical thinking skills, and had their love affair with China and India paid for in inflated dollars, to the prejudice of the American citizen. The Deep State is to be blamed for the reckless pursuit of cheap goods, at the expense of national security. The "globalists" are a poor excuse for excellent statesmen. The "globalist" ideology is fatally flawed. The W.E.F. should be declared a "terrorist organization"... simply because they are terrorizing the world with their sick ideology, obviously failed.

Suzy Cue's avatar

Ugh. This post is just another commercial.

DaughteroftheKing's avatar

THANK YOU for the information and for providing an alternative source for those that are interested...including myself.

Ari Katz's avatar

Makes a LOT of sense for the Culling of Livestock since Covid19 was started...