Guess What the Tylenol Shortage and the Fentanyl Surplus Have in Common

PJ Media ^ | 12/29/2022 | Stephen Green

[SeekAndFind]

There’s a nationwide shortage of Tylenol and other common pain medications. Meanwhile, there’s plenty of Fentanyl coming in through America’s porous southern border for anyone who wants to get high — or dead.

CBS News reported Thursday on our “national shortage” of children’s Tylenol and other medicines have “retailers like CVS, Target and Walgreens” placing strict limits on how much medicine people can buy.

Even though companies like Johnson & Johnson are producing new meds “around the clock,” shortages could nevertheless last “into early next year.”

One reason for the shortages is a spike in demand caused by the annual flu season, COVID-19, and unusually high RSV and strep infections in kids who didn’t get a chance to develop natural immunity during the lockdowns and mask mandates.

Another culprit is Communist China, which dominates international pharmaceutical production, particularly for popular, low-cost generic meds. While Tylenol is made in the U.S., most of its ingredients are sourced from Chinese pharmaceutical companies. Now that CCP strongman Xi Jinping has given up his disastrous Zero-COVID policy that caused severe economic disruptions, maybe production in China will get back to normal.

Or maybe not anytime soon, since the unprepared population is getting infected by the millions each day.

Other drugs remain plentiful.

The BBC reported last week that “US federal drug agents say they seized enough fentanyl in 2022 to kill every American.”

That’s just how much they seized. There’s still more than enough of the stuff out there for anyone who wants it. I’m not exactly the drug-warrior type, but fentanyl is reportedly 50 times more powerful than heroin, and it and similar substances are killing around 150 Americans per day.

[SeekAndFind]

Addiction and mental illness, often intertwined, are the roots of the homeless crisis in our major cities. And in a country wracked with increased depression rates, thanks in large part to government overreaction to COVID and the resulting economic uncertainties, fentanyl has served as an escape for far too many Americans.

We can at least in part thank China for that, too.

[cuban leaf]

We don’t really do drugs around our house, except for an aspirin a day for blood pressure. That’s really it. We’re 69.

[algore]

In my opinion both are poison.

But given a choice I would probably take the fentanyl

[Antioch]

Thank Fauci et al. Wuhan was just a NIAID cutout and workaround for the gain of function research ban in America.

[BitWielder1]

I really dislike this emotional alarm reporting.
Enough fentanyl to kill X million people = 2X million regular doses.
Or so, depending on tolerance levels.

[heartwood]

China is still enraged and humiliated over the Opium Wars. I don’t know how bad the payback is in Britain compared to the US.

That it serves present purposes is a bonus.

[Right Brother]

You take it at bedtime? If you take aspirin in the morning, it can raise your BP.

[PghBaldy]

shortages could nevertheless last “into early next year.” -— so that means at least 3 days?

[cuban leaf]

Actually, I should have said I take it to thin the blood. I take it around noon, usually.

[Nifster]

I’m allergic to aspirin

I’ve taken Tylenol for scores of years. Happy to have it

That said a bottle of a hundred lasts me pretty much a half a year