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Medical Supply Chain Dominated by China
Nate Jackson
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Coronavirus Spreads to Europe and Middle
East. What That Means for This
Global Health Crisis.
by James Carafano
{ dailysignal.com } ~ Now that the coronavirus has broken out of China and established a foothold in Europe and the Middle East, many are on edge. This week, the stock market, for one, jumped off a cliff... something it is wont to do when faced with global uncertainty. While nothing about this global health emergency is certain, we can predict with a high degree of confidence some outcomes—good and bad—that will emerge in the weeks ahead. Take the markets. Once they get jittery, they tend to stay jittery—until they don’t. The coronavirus is sure to break out in different parts of the world in the weeks ahead. This will lead to new restrictive measures that will disrupt trade, supply chains, and travel. New rumors will fly on the internet and elsewhere. Public concern will spike alongside them. And politicians will burst forth lots of suggestions about what to do—and what not to do—because, well, they always feel they have to “do something” whenever a big problem is afoot. What is also likely is that concerns may ebb as flu season comes to end. Respiratory diseases like the flu tend to wax and wane with the weather. This one will probably do the same. Of course, the coronavirus will probably be back next flu season. But that’s the next round. We’ll have to see how well the world is prepared for that. Who knows? Perhaps a vaccine will have been developed by then. It is understandable that the latest outbreaks in Italy and Iran have sent ripples of concern around the world. In the case of Italy, we’re seeing a rapid spread of the disease close to the heart of Europe. That’s bound to create more disruptions.... https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/02/27/coronavirus-spreads-to-europe-and-middle-east-what-that-means-for-this-global-health-crisis/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=coronavirus-spreads-to-europe-and-middle-east-what-that-means-for-this-global-health-crisis?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTTJabVpXRm1PVEJtTlRNNCIsInQiOiI3TWdEc25OWVBYY1JZVTgzdTdcL1RCcVFtZ3NtaXVoTzA0aFVNR2cxMU9uMjIybzZaaExCd3lpamJObVhzZ0FRWmVaOGs4WTBieHFPTXVlaWo5XC9hbVVPSXBCVmRYeTJhMklaK3BZZTdCTGFON0pzSXlJd3kzRFpWaXFHQ25QQ2hUIn0%3D .
Ukraine opens criminal investigation
of loose lips liar-Joe Biden!
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scumbag/commie-Brennan, Spygate,
And The Three Threads
by J.E. Dyer
{ lidblog.com } ~ As clues have dribbled out over time, we have developed a fuller understanding of how the Spygate operation staggered to life during the 2016 election campaign... At each step of the process, we have worked with what we have to try to put together a coherent narrative. There are still significant pieces missing, at least for the public. We don’t know yet what U.S. Attorney John Durham has come up within his investigation, which has been underway now for about a year. But some recent analysis helped solidify, for me, the need to look into precisely what scumbag/commie-John Brennan was doing in the period between his odd, secretive trip to Jackson Hole, Wyoming 1-3 August 2015, and the spring of 2016, when the best-known events of Spygate began to crowd the calendar. The visit to Jackson Hole was the one during which scumbag/commie-Brennan had the opportunity to meet with scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton when they were both in town for a conference sponsored by a billionaire physician and drug developer. There is no direct proof that they met. But there was also no apparent reason for scumbagt/commie-Brennan to participate in the conference, at which he made one appearance on a panel with publisher Steve Forbes. We know from a December 2019 report that John Durham has asked for records of scumbag/commie-Brennan’s activities from the Spygate period, and we can hope that probe is fruitful. Meanwhile, this article will be a relatively brief treatment of three threads running through March 2016 that definitely invite another look at scumbag/commie-Brennan. There is considerably more detail at the links included below. Two of the threads I and others have already developed at length. One is the discovery at the FBI that civilian contractors had improperly had access to “U.S. person information” (USPI) unmasked from communications data being retrieved by FBI analysts, ostensibly for legitimate FBI operations. That discovery was a significant event in the timeline of NSA Director Mike Rogers’s efforts in 2016 to clamp down on such access, which had gotten wildly out of control starting in about 2012... https://lidblog.com/brennan-spygate/ .
Mexican Army Raids Cartel Military
Bunker Right Next To Texas Town
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The First Postmodern Pandemic
By Matthew Continetti
{ freebeacon.com } ~ The pundits are having difficulty settling on a historical analogy for the COVID-19 coronavirus. Will the spread of the disease be President Trump's Katrina or his financial crisis?... Will it be similar to the H1N1 avian flu pandemic in 2009 or will it be politicized like the Ebola outbreak in 2014? Comparisons are tough. After all, the situation is unprecedented. The political consequences of COVID-19 are difficult to predict because of the interplay between a public health emergency and a fractured public narrative. Coronavirus is the first postmodern pandemic. It has the makings of a phenomenon not seen in a century. The Spanish Flu of 1918 infected an estimated one-third of the global population. It had a case fatality rate greater than 2.5 percent—slightly higher than the rate for coronavirus observed in China so far. More than 600,000 people died in the United States of "La Grippe." No one wants to see these numbers repeated. Perhaps they won't be. The malpractice of the Chinese Communists may be responsible for the high fatality rate there. The rate outside its borders, according to the World Health Organization, is lower. And America inhabits a different public health universe than a century ago. Flu vaccines and therapeutics did not exist. Hospitals, the sciences of virology and epidemiology, and medical technology were primitive. Authorities relied on quarantines and appeals for good hygiene. Results were mixed. And disappointing. This is different from the Spanish Flu. Science, medicine, and public health have improved immeasurably. But that is not the only difference. COVID-19 is novel. No one saw it before last December. No one is sure where it came from. And it has spread quickly. Despite record advances in gene sequencing and drug testing, it will be more than a year before a vaccine can be mass produced. The global economy is far more integrated than in the past. And a worldwide broadcast, digital, and social media exist that would have been fanciful to President Wilson. This system distributes misinformation, incentivizes hysteria and partisanship, and expects immaculate performance from the government while ignoring, dismissing, and excusing its own failures. Dealing with "community spread" is hard enough. Try doing it while watching Don Lemon... https://freebeacon.com/columns/the-first-postmodern-pandemic/?utm_source=actengage&utm_campaign=FreedomMail&utm_medium=email .
CPAC shocker: “RepublicEN” astroturf group launches character attack on Princeton physicist
By James Taylor
{ cfact.org } ~I attended a CPAC session Thursday on climate change and was stunned at the stark difference in tone and professionalism among the panelists. Dr. Will Happer and Genesis Torres of the CO2 Coalition presented cordial scientific summaries of climate realism... while Alex Bozmowski, director of strategy and operations for a self-professed “conservative” group calling itself “republicEN,” responded by viciously attacking the ethics and character of Happer and Torres. The “republicEN” vicious character-assassination tactics, while simultaneously advocating for what may easily be the most damaging tax increase in American history, tells us all we need to know about RepublicEN. As the saying goes, by their deeds you shall know them. Happer opened with a 10-minute presentation explaining how carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. Happer explained that high carbon dioxide levels do not impact human health. He added that higher carbon dioxide levels have been scientifically shown to increase crop yields and global vegetation. CO2’s asserted negative impacts result solely from asserted climate change, yet the evidence shows the balance of impacts from our modestly warming planet has been positive rather than negative. Torres, an aquatic ecologist, spoke next. In a very affable manner, she explained how the oceans are in no danger of becoming acidic. She noted that aquaculture produces maximum fish production at PH levels between 7.0 and 7.9. Current ocean PH levels are 8.2. Even if atmospheric carbon dioxide levels tripled, ocean PH levels would decline only to 7.8, which is in the ideal PH range. Neither Happer nor Torres criticized Bozmowski. Agree or disagree with their conclusions, Happer’s and Torres’ presentations were factual and affable... https://www.cfact.org/2020/02/28/cpac-shocker-republicen-astroturf-group-launches-character-attack-on-princeton-physycist/?mc_cid=618ea22887&mc_eid=e6ad862261 .
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Medical Supply Chain Dominated by China
Nate Jackson Yesterday, we noted the economic trouble brought about by the deadly coronavirus, and that upheaval continued Tuesday. MarketWatch reports, “The Dow finished Tuesday down nearly 880 points to mark its sharpest-ever two-session slide in point terms, losing about 1,910 points.” The Dow is down 8.4% in just two weeks.
That coincides not just with the coronavirus epidemic and economic interruptions in China but with the rise of Bolshevik commie-Bernie Sanders as the new Democrat front-runner. That’s not a coincidence, but it is another story.
As for the U.S. and the coronavirus, the Centers for Disease Control issued a “strong warning” about it spreading here — a matter, it said, not of “if” but “when.” Naturally, Democrats in last night’s debate used the CDC warning to slam President Donald Trump, or, in Joe Biden’s case, go off on a bizarre rant bragging about his own work on ebola.
With all that in mind, this episode has brought to the forefront another problem with China’s dominance in world markets: the manufacture of pharmaceuticals and supply chains for their ingredients.
According to his recent Senate testimony, Scott Gottlieb, a physician who is also a former Trump administration Food and Drug Administration commissioner, detailed some of our strategic reliance on China for pharmaceuticals: “About 40 percent of generic drugs sold in the U.S. have only a single manufacturer. A significant supply chain disruption could cause shortages for some of many of these products. [In 2019], manufacturing of intermediate or finished goods in China, as well as pharmaceutical source material, accounted for 95 percent of U.S. imports of ibuprofen, 91 percent of U.S. imports of hydrocortisone, 70 percent of U.S. imports of acetaminophen, 40 to 45 percent of U.S. imports of penicillin, and 40 percent of U.S. imports of heparin, according to the Commerce Department. In total, 80 percent of the U.S. supply of antibiotics are made in China.”
Oh, and by the way, Gottlieb notes, “When it comes to starting material for the manufacture of pharmaceutical ingredients, a lot of this production is centered in China’s Hubei Provence, the epicenter of coronavirus.”
This isn’t the free market at work. It’s the result of Beijing’s typical and strategic market manipulation, including underselling global competitors to put them out of business and enable China’s market domination. The U.S. must be equally strategic in thinking through market issues that have national-security implications.
Growing American energy production has moved us toward independence in that sector, providing a buffer particularly for instability in the Middle East. Similarly, we must think through the production and distribution of medicines and medical supplies that are needed to protect our population. Given not just coronavirus itself but questions about its origins and previous experience with contaminated Chinese medicine, it should be painfully obvious that Americans shouldn’t rely on our Red Chinese adversaries to keep us healthy. ~The Patriot Post
Gary Bauer
Vijay Jayaraj
Todd Starnes
David Limbaugh
Cal Thomas
