Posted on 04/07/2020 6:22:29 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
India has removed bans on Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) after facing pressure and perhaps a prospect of retaliation by the U.S. and President Donald Trump.
With a population just short of 1.4 billion people, second only to China, India has yet to feel the full impact of the global pandemic caused by the coronavirus. The latest statistics from Worldometers, a website that is tracking COVID-19, shows India with only 4,858 confirmed cases and 136 deaths as of April 7.
By all appearances, this is a ticking time bomb considering areas of India with a dense and financially stressed population and a health system ill-equipped to handle a major health crisis.
Ironically, India may also be the key to ending the global pandemic because it is a major supplier of HCQ, usually an anti-malaria drug that has shown promise as an effective treatment for COVID-19. One of HCQ’s biggest advocates is none other than President Trump.
Recently Michigan State Representative Karen Whitsett, a Democrat from the Detroit area, thanked Trump for touting the drug, and thus saving her life from the coronavirus.
Last year, India supplied nearly half of the hydroxychloroquine to the U.S, market, reports said. But on Saturday, April 4, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi put a total ban on the export of HCQ. This eliminated the “exceptions” for exports made a month earlier when a partial export ban was placed on HCQ, pain reliever Paracetamol plus dozens of other drugs. The ban meant half the U.S. supply of hydroxychloroquine was taken out.
The prime minister’s motives seemed quite “Trumpish” in its “India First” attitude to ensure that the domestic stockpile can meet India’s demands in the case of an outbreak of COVID-19.
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Excellent!
“Retaliation”????....hardly.
“Hey, buddy, you want a big chunk of China’s supply chain business when this is over? I can make that happen for you.”
The media hates this drug because Trump suggested it might help. They won’t let go. I hope that the people who trash Trump over this refuse to be treated with the drug when it would have helped them.
The Art of the Deal.
Yep, he could also have been motivated by the prospect of reward, not retaliation. Or maybe he was just convinced it would be a decent thing to do, without significant risk to his own people.
I hope that the people who trash Trump over this refuse to be treated with the drug when it would have helped them.
Remember they are Democrats therefore hypocrites, i’d bet they already have some stock piled.
Whatever else you think of India we always should have considered:
- It has had a functioning democratic government since 1947.
- It has freedom of speech and religion in its constitution
- Workers there are free to demand a raise or to quit and take another job
- They are not really expansionist and don’t pose a security threat to any of their neighbors
All of that should have placed them head and shoulders above the ChiComs who run over their own people with tanks. Damn GHWB.
India may some day have many people who test positive for the C-virus. If it turns out that obesity, probably because of the serious underlying health problems that often go with it, is strongly correlated with deaths from C-virus, India may have a far different outcome from the USA. In India 3.9% of adults are obese. In the USA, 36.2% of adults are obese, more than 9 times as many as in India. South Korea 4.7%, Singapore 6.1% and China 6.2% also have far fewer obese people than in the USA.
First China threatening to withhold PPE medical supplies and pharmaceuticals. Now India threatening to withhold pharmaceuticals.
Is there a trend of the Asian continent asserting dominance after their primary customers got addicted to their low prices because their billions in the lowly paid workforce allows cutthroat pricing?
Clawing critical manufacturing back to this continent is the real answer. Isolationism be damned when your very survival depends on it surrounded by these 'friends' that turn to enemies when your chips are down.
This country shouldn't be unable to see the flaws in this wholesale trust they give to others, doesn't take a sharp turn to make a turncoat.
Yep - OANN had this info out before yesterday’s Task Force brief - the Fake News didn’t get the note so they asked the President what he thought about India withholding the drug...and that was one of their better moments during the briefing.
FtrPilot wrote:
“The Art of the Deal.”
Art of the Deal indeed!!
Exactly. India is a democracy and is not seeking to dominate its neighbors. Even if we didn’t bring any jobs back, shifting a lot of the supply chain from China to India would be great for national security. India is not an adversary.
Could be that India supplies could be buying time for other international Hydroxychloroquine manufacturers to ramp up production. That could be a little insurance later that India has all it needs.
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