It is crazy to think about how centralised, and thereby vulnerable, the production of medical supplies is. Knocking out a single plant, for whatever reason, should not cut the supply of something as basic as IV fluid for hundreds of millions of people in half.
It's the range with medicines. The reason why ADHD meds has skyrocketed is a combination of US regulators fucking with the supply of amphetamine salts and US pharma sitting on their stockpiles, deliberately causing artificial scarcity. If capitalism worked the way we're told it is supposed to, plants in Europe or Asia or Latin America would pick up the slack but no, the entire world's supply of an entire group of medicines depends on a bunch of yanks not fucking people over.
It is crazy to think about how centralised, and thereby vulnerable, the production of medical supplies is. Knocking out a single plant, for whatever reason, should not cut the supply of something as basic as IV fluid for hundreds of millions of people in half.
It's the range with medicines. The reason why ADHD meds has skyrocketed is a combination of US regulators fucking with the supply of amphetamine salts and US pharma sitting on their stockpiles, deliberately causing artificial scarcity. If capitalism worked the way we're told it is supposed to, plants in Europe or Asia or Latin America would pick up the slack but no, the entire world's supply of an entire group of medicines depends on a bunch of yanks not fucking people over.
and ooh boy do they love fucking people over