Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 65

[ecosophia]

As we proceed through the second year of these open posts, it's pretty clear that the official narrative is cracking as the toll of deaths and injuries from the Covid vaccines rises steadily and the vaccines themselves demonstrate their total uselesness at preventing Covid infection or transmission. It's still important to keep watch over the mis-, mal- and nonfeasance of our self-proclaimed health gruppenfuehrers, and the disastrous results of the Covid mania, but I think it's also time to begin thinking about what might be possible as the existing medical industry reels under the impact of its own self-inflicted injuries. 

So it's time for another open post. The rules are the same as before: 

1. If you plan on parroting the party line of the medical industry and its paid shills, please go away. This is a place for people to talk openly, honestly, and freely about their concerns that the party line in question is dangerously flawed and that actions being pushed by the medical industry et al. are causing injury and death. It is not a place for you to dismiss those concerns. Anyone who wants to hear the official story and the arguments in favor of it can find those on hundreds of thousands of websites.

2. If you plan on insisting that the current situation is the result of a deliberate plot by some villainous group of people or other, please go away. There are tens of thousands of websites currently rehashing various conspiracy theories about the Covid-19 outbreak and the vaccines. This is not one of them. What we're exploring is the likelihood that what's going on is the product of the same arrogance, incompetence, and corruption that the medical industry and its tame politicians have displayed so abundantly in recent decades. That possibility deserves a space of its own for discussion, and that's what we're doing here. 
 
3. If you plan on using rent-a-troll derailing or disruption tactics, please go away. I'm quite familiar with the standard tactics used by troll farms to disrupt online forums, and am ready, willing, and able -- and in fact quite eager -- to ban people permanently for engaging in them here. Oh, and I also lurk on other Covid-19 vaccine skeptic blogs, so I'm likely to notice when the same posts are showing up on more than one venue. 

4. If you don't believe in treating people with common courtesy, please go away. I have, and enforce, a strict courtesy policy on my blogs and online forums, and this is no exception. The sort of schoolyard bullying that takes place on so many other internet forums will get you deleted and banned here. Also, please don't drag in current quarrels about sex, race, religious, etc. No, I don't care if you disagree with that: my journal, my rules. 

With that said, the floor is open for discussion.    

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Nice picture of pills!

What needs to be said is that, more often than not, it is exactly the same pill made by the same manufacturer being sold for widely different prices.
Even comparing the US and Canada, the prices are often very different. For example, Jublia (Efinaconazole), a liquid antibiotic to treat toenail fungus, wholesales for about CDN $100.00 (US $75) for an 8 ml bottle. For a 4 ml bottle in the US, made by the same manufacturer, the wholesale price is US $750.00 (CDN $ $1000.00). Ten times the price for half as much.

As for the future of pharmaceuticals, I can suggest an easy fix that will take care of a lot of such problems: Allow local pharmacies to make from scratch their own preparations of prescription drugs.

As a recent example, I remember when Albuterol nebulizer pods went off patent--
A pack of 30 generic pods sold for about $25.00 at the time. Then, a pharmacist started manufacturing pod-filling equipment, empty pods, a sealer, and albuterol powder by the pound. Pharmacists who bought this setup could manufacture pods with the same content for about $3.00 a box. We sold them for $10.00 a box, far undercutting the generic manufacturers.

Unfortunately, it all came to a sudden end when, by a freakish coincidence, all the generic Albuterol pod makers lowered their wholesale prices to about $6.00 a box! Shortly after, additional regulations were put into effect prohibiting local pharmacies from compounding generic products that were otherwise commercially available--Unless they apply for a manufacturer's license and pay for the required extra licenses and inspections.
This one-two punch put most of us pod-makers out of business, and prices for generic pods began to inch up after that.

It is still possible to skirt the restrictions for things like this. If a prescriber writes for 0.090% pods (instead of the standard 0.083%) they can still be legally compounded.

With the current environment of rolling shortages of many types of prescriptions, combined with increasing transport costs, I can see that we will need to go back to a model of making our own Rxs from local ingredients. Probably there won't be as many types of meds, but don't be surprised if they are cheaper...