We are dependent upon China.
And if their ability to supply gets disrupted due to the Coronavirus we have maybe a one month supply of critical medicines and then that's it.
Bannon's pandemic podcast spoke about this today:
https://pandemic.warroom.org/ep-15-practical-preparedness/
Those of us that are members of AMAC (the conservative, patriotic alternative to the leftist AARP), read about this in AMAC’s monthly magazine, too...
Some name brand made drugs made in China have recently been recalled due to cancer causing contaminates.
Faisel, Nandibas, and Sanjay can do it in India!
Here’s what I have seen again and again, over and over in my industry in the last 20 years
Wall Street Private equity / hedge funds buy a long-standing private (usually family-run) American company using their access to super-cheap debt (thanks to the Federal Reserve)
The company gets loaded up with debt. Huge fees paid to new management
Financial wizards looking to squeeze every last $$ move production overseas (not always China, but often enough)
Something unexpected happens, and company experiences trouble. Bankruptcy declared and suppliers and workers get screwed
Its become so common, if we see a customer has been bought by “private equity” we begin a plan to study risk of default.
If we’d been dependent on Germany before World War II, we’d be speaking German today...
The question is: Do you want your children speaking Chinese?
Here’s the major problem - why are people taking all these drugs ? you don’t need them
In fact many of these drugs are probably harming you