Posted on 02/18/2020 6:59:42 PM PST by Hojczyk
“We make 7 percent of the [global] mask supply,” Bowen explained on Steve Bannon’s “War Room: Pandemic” podcast. “China has steadily been taking away our mask business. In a few years, it will all be owned by China – they sell the mask for less than I can buy the material.
“America’s hospitals want to save money. The way America’s hospitals buy products – it’s all rigged. GPO, group purchasing organization, bid these things out. They’re looking for the low price, that’s China. That’s why all this happening.”
The United States is also entirely reliant on Chinese manufacturing for nearly all pharmaceutical drugs, generic prescriptions and over-the-counter product supplements and medicines – including penicillin and vitamin C. If US-China tensions worsen, China could cut off antibiotic exports, throwing our hospitals into turmoil.
Bannon, a former top adviser to President Donald Trump, warns these foreign dependencies are at the heart of what it means to be made in America.
“In order to have a secure nation, it’ more than just tanks and soldiers and missiles, there is health security. We are now paying the true cost of the China price, with this just-in-time inventory,” he said. “This globalization. It wasn’t just about taking jobs, which is bad enough, it wasn’t just about stripping our factories out of here. It’s left us exposed as a nation.
“We are now supplicants to our enemies. That is unacceptable and I know that is one of the reasons why Donald Trump is president of the United States.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
Wth? That there is FARMER creativity!
When I first started working in an operating room we used cloth masks. May have to go back to them
Every 24 hours the earth turns and puts us in the Wuhan virus air.
I think i need to make me one of those and wear it to work.
Last month I was pissed because my pharmacy switched my pain med generic brand again.
Turns out the new ones are made entirely in the USA.
Much less pissed, now.
:D
Nice!! Made in the USA meds are a rare, but wonderful find.
I need have hubby check where his name brand and generic (for name brand med) are both made.
Glad you mentioned this :-)
From your link...
... “We are ramping to full production. We’re going 24/7,” Roman said. He added that the company is increasing production at its plants in China and other Asian countries, as well as in Europe in the United States.
3M’s facility in China is fully operational despite the outbreak, he said....
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Wonder if that last sentence still holds true.
OMG!
Once his crap is all over Mexico even Democrats will want to build the wall.
A million you say? Why that is enough for 3/10 of 1% of the population. That should be more than adequate until production can be reestablished here. No problem.
Another night, checked there were 13 racks of dog meds completely empty at local Walmart. That’s 5 days now.
Too late now.. Thanks to past presidents from Nixon to Obama we’re no longer a manufacturing nation. China and up and coming India have taken over manufacturing.
Trump is righ, we have to bring manufacturing back to America.
O2 hasn't been used in SCBA in years.
I'll work up to it as stories break.
Reading Jon Rappoport, this corona hoax is all BS.
Be that, I already have a stock of N95, and also paper masks.
But guess what, Kids?
The “virus” is said to be 100 microns small, and the N95 only stops things 300 microns and up.
Yes, you’re all gonna die.
No your not. This whole thing is a hoax designed to take over—China, the World, the UDSA, you name it.
Read Jon Rappoport.
Not sure how sterile those masks are going to be at the end of the game
Thank you. I was just going to post the same.
COVID-19 is believed to be spread the very same way common colds and influenza are - mainly spread when infected people cough or sneeze, releasing small virus-containing droplets into the air which can be breathed in and infect the respiratory tract of the people around them and also by touching a surface or object that has virus on it and then touching their own mouth, nose, or possibly their eyes (think mucus membranes). So if you touch a surface that has enough of the virus on it and then you wipe or rub your eyes, you can contract it that way but the same goes for colds and flues.
Masks are more to prevent an infected person from spreading the virus through coughs and sneezes from infecting others. They may also provide some protection from breathing it in and can help people to be mindful of not touching their face.
Read that piece. On this topic, Jon Rapporport is an idiot.
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