Posted on 04/01/2020 9:19:34 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell
Happy April Fool's Day. Today it's about fish tank cleaner for chloroquine. But anybody remember about when China was involved with putting anti-freeze into cough syrup? The anti-freeze was diethylene glycol, it was mislabeled TD glycerine, which means 'glycerine substitute'. A Spanish middleman filling the customs declaration changed the name to glycerine. The China Food and Drug Administration did not regard the toxic cough syrup scandal as being China's fault. The Chinese manufacturer exported the diethylene glycol under the name TD glycerine, but the Spanish middleman Aduanas Javier de Gracia changed the name to glycerine when he filled the customs declaration in Panama, where hundreds of people died from drinking anti-freeze.
Add this to China's space satellite Chernobyl, where an "experiment" increased orbital, satellite killing space junk 10,000s of times.
They should change the initials from CCP to something like Klu Klux Klowns.
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Shortly after President Trump touted chloroquine as a potential cure for COVID-19, the media triumphantly reported that a man had died from taking homemade chloroquine due to Trump's recommendation. It turned out that the man's wife fed him some fish tank cleaner. She even partook of it with him, except that he died while she didn't. As a dedicated murder mystery reader, I didn't blame Trump. My suspicions were focused elsewhere. It turns out that my instincts may have been right on the money. Here's the story the drive-by media didn't tell you:
A Chinese guy, a brilliant computer scientist and also a great pianist, told me:
Never put anything in your body, Made in China.
That should include cheap candy from dollar stores.
They have flooded our on line markets with their hand sanitizers with cute pictures of pandas on the bottles.
"For more than a century, the Chinese have used the word 'science' to refer not just to the study of the natural world but also to a way of thinking that is supposed to be rational, objective, and modern. In a nation disillusioned by Mao's utopian fantasies, [Deng Xiaoping's] emphasis on science as the party's new touchstone was a political masterstroke. But as anthropologist Susan Greenhalgh has shown, the leadership's blind faith in science led it to adopt an extreme solution to a [perceived] problem that … could have been managed in other ways. At the center of the process was a group of eminent rocket scientists, men who had been sheltered from Mao's campaigns, who had access to computers and international journals, and who were supremely confident in their own abilities. Chief among them was the cyberneticist Song Jian who later served as minister of science and technology. These men viewed the population as a machine to be fine-tuned by engineers like themselves, not a society of humans with rights, values, and preferences. In 1979, they made the mistake of accepting as mainstream science the most alarmist theories of overpopulation and ecological crisis then circulating in the West. They used weak data, plugged them into formulas adapted from their missile optimization work, and created population models and forecasts that gave the illusion of fact. Then, over the objections of other scholars, they used these 'scientific' results to persuade the leadership that China faced a grave crisis and that immediate implementation of a one-child program was the 'only way' to avoid environmental disaster and meet Deng's economic goals." - Philip P. Pan, Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China, pp. 302-303.
This is misleading. It makes it sound like the importer was responsible for the error because of his customs declaration form.
The product wasn't labeled and sold as glycerine simply because of a form on a customs declaration.
the importer must have thought that they ordered glycerine, but the Chinese manufacturer shipped the wrong item.
where have you gone Lieutenant Columbo, a nation turns it’s lonely eyes to you...
I believe I read diethylene glycol in the ingredient list on a can of Diet Dr. Pepper some thirty years ago.
I figured it was like methyl v. ethyl alcohol.
Futile.
They sold US lead filled toys for our children and we didn’t learn.
They sold US poisoned sheetrock after Katrina and we didn’t learn.
They sold US poisoned pet food and killed our animals and we didn’t learn.
How the HELL after all that did we leave it to THEM to manufacture our damn Medicine?!?!?!
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