Tell that to the multiple documented non Chinese folks infected on all those cruise ships. You obviously don’t know what you’re talking about and you’ve let conspiracy theories cloud your judgement.
This guy's the best there is. I listen to everyone of his broadcasts from end to end religiously every day.
There is this problem too... The coronavirus outbreak exposes the U.S.’s pharma supply chain vulnerability By Marsha Blackburn February 14, 2020 | https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/14/coronavirus-outbreak-exposes-weak-link-us-drug-supply-chain/ Adobe In the 21st century, Americans have found it far too easy to be complacent about public health emergencies like the ongoing coronavirus outbreak of the newly named Covid-19 that began in China and has since spread to other countries, including the U.S. To be fair, it has been more than 50 years since the last federal quarantine was issued, to control a deadly smallpox outbreak. A half-century gap is bound to instill a false sense of security, even when taking more recent threats into consideration. For most Americans, the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) scare in 2003 lives on in vague memories of face masks worn by terrified business travelers. The Ebola nightmare that lasted from 2014 to 2016 wasn’t severe enough to prompt the Obama administration to issue a quarantine, much less sustain a discussion about how poorly prepared public health officials were to address the outbreak. Fuzzy recollections are a symptom of a much larger problem: In the memory gap between outbreak and eradication lives a growing threat to health care delivery — and to national security. Related: ‘The time to worry is now’: The coronavirus in China could threaten pharma’s ingredient sourcing In October 2019, Dr. Janet Woodcock, the director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, testified before Congress that the United States “has become a world leader in drug discovery and development, but is no longer in the forefront of drug manufacturing.” Woodcock identified as a key health and security concern the cessation of U.S. manufacturing of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), the basic building blocks of medications. She testified that 72% of API manufacturing takes place outside the U.S., and that the number of facilities making APIs in China has more than doubled since 2010. The use of foreign-sourced materials “creates vulnerabilities in the U.S. supply chain,” Woodcock concluded. Her concerns are not unfounded. The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission echoed Woodcock’s worries. In its 2019 report to Congress, the commission revealed “serious deficiencies in health and safety standards in China’s pharmaceutical sector.” The commission found a poorly regulated industry enabled by Beijing’s refusal to cooperate with routine FDA inspections. This stonewalling, coupled with the small number of FDA inspectors in the country to oversee a large number of producers and outright fraud perpetrated by Chinese manufacturers, is a recipe for disaster. The coronavirus outbreak is drawing much-needed attention to the possibility of a global health crisis. But awareness isn’t enough. Without action from policymakers, our dependence upon China for medications will continue to put American lives at risk. The number of Chinese facilities that make active pharmaceutical ingredients is still growing. Although we cannot yet quantify the U.S.’s dependence on pharmaceutical ingredients made in China, we do know that the more Chinese products flow into the U.S., the more potential there is for trouble. In 2007 and 2008, 246 people died as a result of adulterated heparin, a widely used blood thinner. An investigation by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control determined that batches of heparin manufactured in China had been contaminated. The contaminant, which is very cheap, was similar in chemical structure to heparin and was able to go undetected in routine tests. Since 2010, regulators have found serious problems with batches of thyroid medication, muscle relaxers, and antibiotics used to treat tuberculosis, sexually transmitted diseases, and other dangerous bacterial infections. In 2016, an explosion at a Chinese factory resulted in a global shortage of piperacillin, an important antibiotic, simply because that factory was the drug’s sole source of production. In 2018, the FDA recalled a number of blood pressure medications made in China that were contaminated with N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA), a cancer-causing toxin. Without intervention, the FDA expects the pharmaceutical industry will continue to rely on Chinese companies to make active pharmaceutical ingredients. China isn’t alone in creating sometimes shoddy or dangerous pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical ingredients. Companies in India also contribute to this problem. Fortunately, policy initiatives that are popular with lawmakers have sparked the creation of 400,000 new jobs in the domestic manufacturing sector. We must focus this momentum and begin bringing pharmaceutical manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. Congress and federal agencies can start now by reviewing regulations to ensure there are no barriers to rapid adoption of new technologies, creating incentives for workforce growth and training, and allowing the private sector to use updated, cost-effective technologies and processes that would enable U.S.-based companies to regain competitiveness in the API market. The status quo has made us vulnerable. The fix, however, is sitting right in front of us. If we fail to act, we place our collective future in the hands of companies that operate entirely in the shadows. It could be years before the next drug shortage or public health crisis puts Americans’ health and safety at risk — but would you bet your life on that? Marsha Blackburn, a Republican senator representing Tennessee, serves on the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee and the Senate Armed Services Committee.
I've never visited or ever heard of any of the sites you are talking about . . .and I don't have time to
With over 50 million Chinese people in lockdown...I think it’s a very real problem. China is close to stopping all it’s manufacturing. Also, with YouTube only showing media propaganda...they are not allowing information from individuals to come out. There is a huge problem. And the propaganda shows hospital rooms with one patient, million dollar machines and two attendants taking care of patient. It is all propaganda...China is falling apart. California is averaging 45 people a week dying from the flue. They say its 10,000 across USA. One of my friends had the flue and his kidneys went out. There’s a story that a 19 year old had the flue and cough for two weeks, was feeling better, he just past out and died. No fear mongering but the truth sure doesn’t look promising. This might be man made but it wasn’t planned. It just got out of hand. Then again it could be a wake up call from God. Destruction of Christian church’s, one child policy and concentration camps. This has nothing to do with neocons...this is a big problem. Br al
Worldwide, how many non-Chinese persons who have contracted this virus have died from it? Answer that and then call me a conspiracy theorist who doesn't know what I am talking about. As far as I know the only non-Chinese persons who have died are still of east-Asian genetic extraction. There are cases of non-Chinese/east-Asian contacting the virus but not ONE (or any significant number that I am aware of) has died. That smells a rat.
Do a little research before making these nonsensical statements. The reason westerners aren’t dying is that we have first rate medical care and our medical system is not completely overwhelmed. Yet. Furthermore, in China, it’s affecting males far more than females. Why? It especially attaches to ACE2 receptors in the lungs. Smoking increases the ratio of ACE2 receptors in all races. Fifty to sixty percent of Chinese males smoke. Only 6% of Chinese females smoke. The male Chinese population smokes more than ANY other nation. So they have more ACE2 receptors. It’s not a bioweapon aimed at Chinese. It’s a bioweapon that attaches to ACE2 receptors in the lungs. ACE2 receptors increase with smoking, and Chinese males smoke more, by far, than any population in the world. Occam’s Razor explains this. No silly conspiracy theory is necessary to explain this. Stop attacking MOG posters who don’t agree with your pet conspiracy. https://www.insider.com/covid-19-rapidly-spreading-on-quarantined-cruise-ship-542-cases-2020-2 A staggering 542 passengers have been diagnosed with COVID-19 on the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship Isaac Scher 8 hours ago Five-hundred forty-two people on the Diamond Princess have tested positive for COVID-19, the novel coronavirus. The vessel is the largest site of coronavirus cases outside mainland China. Nearly two weeks ago, the vessel began a 14-day quarantine in the port of Yokohama, Japan, near Tokyo. The vast majority of the 400 American passengers aboard have been evacuated. Roughly 60 US citizens decided to stay behind. Visit Insider's homepage for more stories. When the Diamond Princess cruise ship entered quarantine in Yokohama, Japan, only 10 passengers had tested positive for the novel coronavirus. On Tuesday, with a day left in its two-week quarantine, the figure has surged to 542, making the Diamond Princess the largest site of coronavirus cases outside mainland China. The quarantine was implemented after health officials found that a man who disembarked in Hong Kong in late January had the virus. There were early concerns among some passengers that the quarantine was ineffective — concerns that have now been magnified. "The quarantine process failed," Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, told USA Today "I'd like to sugarcoat it and try to be diplomatic about it, but it failed," he continued. "People were getting infected on that ship. Something went awry in the process of the quarantining on that ship. I don't know what it was, but a lot of people got infected on that ship." The World Health Organization's Dr. Mike Ryan, director of the health emergencies program, told the Guardian: "Clearly there has been more transmission than expected" on the vessel. From the first days of the quarantine, panic mounted as test results among the 3,700 passengers and crew kept coming back positive. On Sunday, the vast majority of the roughly 400 Americans aboard the vessel were evacuated and flown back to the United States. Other governments — those of Australia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, and Canada — will evacuate their citizens. Australia will also evacuate an undisclosed number of New Zealand passport-holders. Of the American evacuees, 14 were found to have the virus "during the evacuation process," according to a joint-statement from the State Department and the Department of Health and Human Services. "These individuals were moved in the most expeditious and safe manner to a specialized containment area on the evacuation aircraft to isolate them in accordance with standard protocols," the statement said. In total, 44 Americans traveling on the Diamond Princess have contracted COVID-19. American citizens look out from a bus as they arrive at Haneda airport on February 17, 2020 in Tokyo, Japan. The United States has become the first country to offer to repatriate citizens on the Diamond Princess while it remains quarantined in Yokohama Port. Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images "I have no idea where they will send me from here and I'm told we don't get a choice," said Sarah Arana, one of the American evacuees, on Facebook. "But it doesn't even matter. I am back home." Three-hundred forty citizens flew to the US, traveling in two chartered cargo planes that were converted to carry passengers. On Monday they touched down in California and Texas. Passengers will be quarantined on military bases for an additional two weeks at the Fairfield, California, Travis Air Force Base and Lackland Air Force Base near San Antonio, Texas. Some of the roughly 60 Americans who stayed on the vessel thought the Diamond Princess would be safer than traveling with potentially sick passengers. Matt Smith, who opted to stay aboard, tweeted Sunday that he saw two Americans talking closely, one of whom did not have a face mask. "If there are secondary infections on board, this is why: idiots who don't know any better," he said. "And you wanted me to get on a bus with her?" Although the quarantine officially ends Wednesday, February 18, any passenger who shared a cabin with someone who has the virus will be quarantined for an additional two weeks. As of Tuesday, there are 15 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the US, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. At the time of writing, there are 73,243 recorded cases of COVID-19 across the globe. The vast majority of the cases are in mainland China, where 72,436 have contracted the virus and 1,868 have died.
I'll ignore the nasty personal attacks you keep directing my way (conspiracy theorist, don't know what I am talking about, etc.) and again ask you to answer a simple question: given the staggering number of cases of Coronavirus, how many persons of non-Chinese/east-Asian genetic stock have died?
The Chinese health care system has collapsed. Patients with Covid 19 are now routinely dying in China that would have survived in places like Singapore, France, England, and the USA. Those who smoke are in much greater danger of death from this virus. Chinese men smoke more than any other population in the world. Your point does NOT prove your pet conspiracy theory, no matter how much you think it does.
I can see what you are saying and I'm certainly not trying to invalidate it HH. I get feelings and premonitions too and I listen to them generally when I have them. I don't think its something that should be removed though. Nobody here is not mature in their faith nor likely to be if they are coming to this site. The article I thought made it pretty obvious how the Buddhist belief is leading people astray and backward even if it shares some similarity with Christian prophecy about end times. It's a trap and a cunning one by a fallen angel for the people of China. We should certainly pray for them that they see the truth and turn from their error. I pray that the Catholic faith even if it is the patriotic church rises up and proves itself in this time of need. So many today are falling for this stuff in much the same way that Church attendance has fallen off. People look to get something from it rather than go to worship God in the way he wishes to be worshiped and which is pleasing to Him. Even the Catholic faith suffers from this because so few believe in the presence of Jesus in the Eucharist so they tire of the Mass and stop attending and instead pick up occult practices because of the way it makes them feel. My neice asked me a while back why I am a Catholic. She said that she was always so bored going to Mass and really felt great going to her evangelical NWO mega church. I told her I go to Mass to worship God and it is enough to know that it is pleasing to Him. The evangelical stuff ran me away because it is completely built upon riling up a spirit of excitement and hyper emotionalism. She didn't have much to say after that because she is like many young people today and literally everything revolves around how they feel and how exterior things make them feel.
You continue to not answer a very simple question. And you call me a conspiracy theorist? And, no, the Chinese healthcare system has not collapsed. Perhaps being stressed by having to deal with bioterrorism, but I pray China does not retaliate in kind to Team Neocon's provocation, because one thing I can tell you is that the American healthcare system is not prepared to deal with the situation China is presently facing. America hasn't even ever conducted national drills for this kind of situation. My brother worked at Ft. Detrick after serving 20 years with the Navy and he said that we should all be praying our Rosary that China does not respond in kind, because our country is not prepared as of today.
You spoke truth here, Don. Great post. Brian needs to decide for himself after all is said and done. The narrow gate, we must enter by the narrow gate.
‘Conscience-free journalism is great career choice’: Guardian mocked over failure to mention Assange in ‘press freedom’ article 17 Feb, 2020 15:59 / Updated 1 day ago Demonstrators hold placards as they protest outside of Westminster Magistrates Court © REUTERS / Hannah Mckay Follow RT on The Guardian newspaper has been mercilessly ridiculed on social media after it failed to highlight the plight of journalist Julian Assange in a piece on Amal Clooney’s plans to “combat media repression globally.” Clooney, who represented the WikiLeaks co-founder during Swedish extradition proceedings against him in 2015, has suggested that the UK introduce a law that targets sanctions against individuals, including ministers, who abuse human rights such as freedom of expression. Wintour reports that “The aim is to target anyone throwing journalists in jail, or shutting down the internet,” without even a brief mention of Assange. The journalist is currently holed up in Britain’s notorious Belmarsh Prison awaiting his UK court hearing on US extradition in what has been widely criticized as the American government suppressing press freedom. The failure to highlight Assange’s case triggered widespread ridicule on social media. Mark Curtis, a journalist and historian, sarcastically suggested that “congratulations” were in order for The Guardian for publishing “a whole article on global media suppression without mentioning the phrase ‘Julian Assange’.” THIS IS BUT AN EXAMPLE OF 'THE FREE PRESS' WE HAVE HERE IN THE WEST...
No, actually, it’s Padraig’s site and I asked him if it needed to be removed. It hasn’t been removed.
"Stop attacking MOG posters who don’t agree with your pet conspiracy." I copied that from your response, Brian, to R67. Jeez, it's a bit harsh. Are you saying that anyone who has a different opinion, is 'attacking' other people on the forum? Could you explain this a little further?
Global Surgical Mask Shortage Spells Doom For U.S. Amid Coronavirus Pandemic In January my brother Joe called to tell us the stores were out of surgical masks as fear of coronavirus spread in China. We sent Joe and his family a box of surgical masks, hand sanitizers, gloves and Zicam. But today the surgical masks are out in most stores in America. This is a serious issue now facing Americans. –Jim Hoft * * * * * * * * * * * * * * As the deadly coronavirus suddenly spreads, paralyzing cities in China and infecting thousands in more than a dozen other countries, medical face masks are suddenly one of the world’s hottest commodities. The Chinese government has ordered citizens to don masks every time they go outside. Once used, medical professionals advise a mask to be replaced with a fresh one, driving an explosion in demand. Amid shortages and soaring prices of masks, scenes of people lined up for hours to get a protective face covering, only to be turned away when pharmacies run out, have become familiar. Footage documented by China’s citizen journalists shows the Chinese government dragging people kicking and screaming to mass quarantine camps around the epicenter of the outbreak have lit up the world wide web. “The epidemic is a demon, and we cannot let this demon hide,” warns Chinese president Xi Jinping. Chinese community officers are even ruthlessly beating stray dogs to death in broad daylight to prevent them from spreading the virus. The coronavirus poses an imminent national security threat that would induce the implosion of the U.S economy and beget an unprecedented “health security” crisis, predicts Mike Bowen, executive vice president of Prestige Ameritech, the sole full-line surgical mask manufacturer in America. More than 90 percent of surgical masks and respirators sold in the United States are produced overseas, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. China typically produces approximately half the world’s sanitary face masks — around 20 million a day, or more than seven billion a year, while Taiwan makes 20 percent of the global supply. However, people are not showing up to the factories or their jobs, crippling the communist country’s economy. The virus has cut production down to approximately 10 million daily, which is not even meet the current demand in China. If factories in China continuously fail to operate at full strength, the global supply chain for even the most specialized products would cause large-scale global disruption. At any given time, these countries could easily cut off the U.S. supply chain, leaving Ameritech Prestige as the last line of America’s defense amid biological warfare. “We make 7 percent of the [global] mask supply,” Bowen explained on Steve Bannon’s “War Room: Pandemic” podcast. “China has steadily been taking away our mask business. In a few years, it will all be owned by China – they sell the mask for less than I can buy the material. “America’s hospitals want to save money. The way America’s hospitals buy products – it’s all rigged. GPO, group purchasing organization, bid these things out. They’re looking for the low price, that’s China. That’s why all this happening.” The most effective mask, known as the N95 respirator, is designed to filter at least 95% of airborne particles and more sufficiently protects against the spread of virus-laden droplets than surgical masks. China currently produces approximately 600,000 of N95 masks daily, according to figures from the Ministry of Industry. Hospitals do not stockpile these high-quality masks and typically have enough to last just two weeks. “We are not the only manufacturer of N95s,” Bowens said. “We are the only surgical mask manufacturer still left in the USA –that’s no small thing because the N95 supply rests on the foundation of the surgical mask supply and if it collapses the N95 supply will immediately collapse.” Last month, China, Taiwan and India banned the export of face masks to reserve them for desperate residents. As a result, pharmacies in the U.S. are reporting supply shortages. According to a new survey conducted by the National Community Pharmacists Association, nearly 96 percent of U.S. pharmacists said the coronavirus has led to shortages as retailers wait to restock shelves. As the coronavirus metastasized across 24 countries, Prestige Ameritech is receiving international orders to outsource its supply from foreign governments, including Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan. “There is 200 times more demand than there is supply,” Bowen said. “My phone is ringing every two minutes, every one minute I am getting an email. I had to change my email address so that I could actually see emails from my customers.” For over a decade, Bowen warmed government officials of the insecure U.S. mask supply, but those who had the power to preemptively remedy the situation brushed him off. “I’ve been preaching this American-made story since 2007. Nobody listened. “The whole mass market was only interested in price,” he said. “I’ve been everywhere for 14 years trying to get people to listen. I’ve talked to congressmen. I’ve talked to generals. I’ve written the president. I wrote President Obama five or six letters and he sent me a presidential proclamation on pandemics suitable for framing.” The Department of Health and Human Service confirmed America’s mask makers had left the country in 2007 and HHS official met with Prestige Ameritech, Bowen explained, only to conclude the department merely had “authority to study the problem.” As of Feb. 18, a total of 72,436 people are confirmed to have been infected with the disease in China, while 1,868 people have died, according to the Chinese government. Professor Gabriel Leung, the founding director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Infection Disease Epidemiology and Control in Hong Kong, estimates the number of people infected by the Wuhan coronavirus will double every six days and could potentially infect 60 to 90 percent of the world in the next couple of years unless public health authorities impose “substantial draconian measures to limit population mobility.” People need to be prepared for the outbreak to become a global epidemic though it is “not a certainty by any stretch of the imagination…we must prepare better for it,” he told reporters in January. The government’s apathy to the impending crisis, makes it near impossible to adequately supply the demand for masks upon the coronavirus hitting the U.S. and precipitously expanding the Prestige is a financial liability, Bowen argued. “It’s too little too late,” he said. When the Ebola pandemic caused global panic, “we hired 150 people, we built new machines. Everybody said they’d stay with us. The day after the pandemic, they forgot who we were. We nearly went out of business. I had to sell 5 percent of the company to survive in 2011. “The [Center for Disease Control] needs to get involved and they need to tell America’s hospitals what they’ve been telling me – this is a national security problem and they should buy American masks. The Department of Defense should stop letting our warfighters rely on a mask supply that’s controlled by a foreign government. I can’t help everybody right now. We are going to help as many hospitals as we can. It takes months to build a mass machine.” The United States is also entirely reliant on Chinese manufacturing for nearly all pharmaceutical drugs, generic prescriptions and over-the-counter product supplements and medicines – including penicillin, vitamin C. If US-China tensions worsen, China could cut off antibiotic exports, throwing our hospitals into turmoil. Bannon, a former top adviser to President Donald Trump, warns these foreign dependencies are at the heart of what it means to be made in America. “In order to have a secure nation, it’ more than just tanks and soldiers and missiles, there is health security. We are now paying the true cost of the China price, with this just-in-time inventory,” he said. “This globalization. It wasn’t just about taking jobs, which is bad enough, it wasn’t just about stripping our factories out of here. It’s left us exposed as a nation. “We are now supplicants to our enemies. That is unacceptable and I know that is one of the reasons why Donald Trump is president of the United States.” https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...pells-doom-for-u-s-amid-coronavirus-pandemic/
Thank you. But you could have done it as well. Anyone can edit their own posts. I don’t understand why you had to involve Padraig. Wow.
