Chances are, there is something about Phenylephrine that cancels the new vaxx or works just as good as the new vaxx.
Think Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectine.
Pseudoephedrine can definitely be used to manufacture meth. And at one time meth cooks could and would buy up every pill a drugstore had on the shelves. I don’t know why this author had any difficulty learning that. Maybe it didn’t fit his story line.
I share your concerns.
I have been “up close and personal” with the medical profession as well as numerous family members and friends.
The goal is quite obviously not to cure or act in the patents best interest. But, to extract the maximum revenue from the individuals assets and/or insurance possible.
The Walgreens would not accept a U.S. Passport as identification, because it doesn’t have an address on it.
The same Walgreens would not let me pick up one for me, and one children’s dose for my minor child. Meth operators would NOT be getting children’s doses.
My wife and I had to shop separately, too.
If someone needs pseudoephedrine, they can get it; they just need to sign for it. What’s the big deal? Apparently the author is unaware of the huge meth problem.
Lifelong allergic rhinitis. Phenylepherine works for me
The lesson of Covid is that the BPC owns and controls most national politicians, the FDA, the CDC, the Mainstream Media, et al.
>>What’s the solution? Probably all of us are going to be driven back to prewar cold remedies like the Neti Pot (for as low as $5) and saline solution.
I bought a powered irrigator a long time ago, maybe 15 years. Love it. The Neti pot is 3rd World technology, powered nasal irrigators are the ticket. Saline made with xylitol plus salt is the ticket post-Covid.
FTA: The old ingredient was out of patent and manufactured for pennies each
The same was done for your a/c refrigerant in the car when the patent for R-12 ran out.
Now you use R-22, R-134A or the newer R-1234YF and R410A
I guess everytime a patent runs out a new refrigerant is needed and a politician gets bribed.
Another illustration of one of the principles of modern government: Every time some SOB abuses something the government takes it out on me.
A couple of decades ago, you could grab a bottle of 250 Sudafeds and check out of the store with no questions asked. That may seem like a lot, but remember the recommended dose for adults is two of the small pills every six hours or so. One good cold afflicting a family of six teens and adults, or a couple of cases of seasonal allergy could use up most of the bottle. (By the way, they also sold the herb ephedra. Now, that stuff is dangerous: it gives little decongestant relief, but makes your heart race.)
Some years ago were the ones who forced the drug companies to switch to it from Pseudoephedrine Hydrochloride when they decided that people were using it to make methamphetimine, and banned it from unregulated purchase.
Now admittedly the phenylepherine doesn’t work as well as pseudoephedrine... takes three or four times as much do achieve the same results, BUT IT DOES WORK. And of course they aren’t going to de-regulate pseudoephedrine so that people can get some over the counter relief for colds, hay fever flu or whatever Fauci and Gates are cooking up in their labs.
I think this mew ban is all a scam to force people to go to a doctor and get a prescription for relief from common minor maladies. I wonder if Phizer, or Maderna, or Johnson & Johnson have a new and expensive decongestant drug fixing to come out and are paying the FDA to do this for more profiteering, and to take away the ability for us peasants to treat ourselves with something cheap and easily purchased.
(Although I have also noticed that the stuff like Nyquil, Sudaphed-D etc. costs four times as much as it did a couple years ago, so they are making plenty of profit in them already.)
So, why mess with meth when there is fentanal?
Bring back actifed
Sigh.
And that is why, for decades, those products contained pseudoephedrine which just about everybody recognizes as a highly effective decongestant when taken orally. They are a victim of the "war on drugs"; you'll now find them for sale in restricted quantities from the pharmacist.
Phenylephrine (the "PE" in Sudafed-PE etc.) is garbage when taken orally, and most of us could have told you that 20 years ago ...
When something goes out of patent they try to discredit their own product and introduce something that is inferior, but they have a patent on it.
Look at Freon.
One of the most perfect coolants ever made. The company made billions.
Then it goes off patent...
So, start posting how it is harmful for the environment and get the bureaucrats involved to declare it will doom ‘the environment’ so that no competitors can start making it.
And you introduce your new product that is clearly inferior and so toxic you need special equipment to handle it.