We may all be grieving about flashlights that might turn up late or never.
But … do you know that the affected region in China produces over 95% of the basic materials for antibiotics sold in the US? And that the medicine industry, like the automotive industry, is very “last minute” driven. The manufacturers of the end product avoid stockpiling, so the major part of the stocks needed to manufacture antibiotics is now in quarantine.
EU officials are urging to reverse/block the outsourcing policies of the major antibiotics companies.
One of my programmer friends commented on how he’s seeing evidence of a lot more buggy software since big US companies like Boeing outsourced their coding.
Now that’s scary.
Not just materials, finished products. More than 90% of the ibuprofen and hydrocortisone that the U.S. imports originates from China. A large percentage of acetaminophen and penicillin as well.
If China really wanted to squeeze the U.S. in the trade war, it could bring pharma into the equation. People might be able to get by without a new gadget, or a new flashlight, but they need drugs to survive.
Certain metals like silver, titanium dioxide, etc have anti-microbial properties. Some topical applications are mentioned. The question is what effect do they have when ingested.
It’s worth reading the paper linked above, or at least the Toxicity section:
The devil is in the details.
Just because something is a disinfectant externally, doesn’t mean it would necessarily work similarly inside the body. Lots of interactions to watch out for.
Plus, the same substance can have different properties depending on many characteristics such as size, shape, impurities… and then even for chemically identical molecules: chirality! Sedative thalidomide is one famous example where one chirality was effective while the other was toxic, causing birth defects and deaths.
It’s one thing to notice an interesting material property. It’s quite another to harness that property effectively and safely in a given system.
Bottom line is it’s not so simple. Better safe than sorry. Talking to biochemists can be enlightening.
Winston (surpentza on youtube) was right. He talks about the way China counts (or doesn’t count), the number of cases. And I suspect there is many more than what they are saying now
Well in that case things will never be the same, prices will be higher, people will order domestic products rather than China imported ones and that will not be good for China I’m afraid…
i read today another 254 died and many thousands new cases…it looks not so good……and thats just per one day………who knows the truth,which will be probably much worst…
Let’s begin with stating everybody uses other numbers, and every dead person is one too many.
I have other numbers. Seems they have changed the “definition” of a person infected by Corona.
The number of cases has risen by 14,480 and the death toll has risen by 242 people in one day.
The new definition has increased the total number of deaths with 135 persons in previous days.
So the most recent death toll is “only” 107 persons in one day. Which is also horrifying.
right……but this source here is trustfully……and thats official…who knows….sincerely,for me is sad,that i can not order anything…but i saw also in my city some people with masks….weeks ago…chinese…i wasnt sure,if they are crazy or paranoic…now i understand…it totally crazy whats going on n China these weeks…
If the sites adapt and demand Vat for each orders, refunding it to the buyers country, then for my country there will be only 25 % added, no handling fees. As it will soon be now, it will also add handling fee $32 atop. Think this will result me to buy less of the cheapest brands, and switch to buy some of the premium brands instead. Ofc much less shopping and orders.
I did not catch the source but last night I heard that this has the potential to affect 60% of the world’s population. No fear mongering intended. Just saying.
What I found most disturbing in Winston's video is that there are people with active symptoms who bragged that they circumvented the Chinese quarantine control. These people made it out of China and are now in France, Australia or anywhere else without being properly checked for any infection of nCoV. So much for the phrase "we have everything under control". With an incubation period of up to 24 days and a disease progression of up to 5 weeks until death or full recovery occurs things have become out of control some weeks ago already.
Usually, when politicians say "we have everything under control", people become alerted. This phrase serves only one purpose: to prevent any panic. Now that masks/respirators are out of stock, also urgent medication like ibuprofen is subject to panic buying everywhere.