The FDA has added so many regulations to pamper the pharmaceutical companies it is not funny. Quinine Sulfate was over the counter for 30 years, but when big pharma came out with a new drug for Restless Leg Syndrome, Quinine Sulfate became prescription only. Gee…. Unfortunately I need it for another species of the animal kingdom, and I’m having issues laying hands on it. 38 people were harmed by quinine sulfate, and 2 died, of kidney or blood-related disorders between April 2005 and October 2008, prompting this change.
I watched a pharmaceutical rep drop off Celebrex samples in a doctor’s office 2 weeks ago. How many people have died of Celebrex? Since Celebrex is still on the market, that number seems to be suppressed. I found 10 deaths in Canada, from an online Canadian paper, but no searching produced a U.S. number.
The FDA Estimates Vioxx Caused 27,785 Deaths … The estimate is based on the number of prescriptions…
I expect 2011 to bring irradiated eggs to market. More homeophatic and organic remedies will disappear. Some people will die for lack of insurance and access to supplements, vitamins and those organic remedies. Some will fork over the cash and spend hundreds each month either on insurance, or the prescription cost of new patented drugs, many with harmful side effects, to keep the pharmaceutical boat afloat.
At the same time, our economy will be taking its second dip into recession. The cost of the Deepwater Horizon is already on gas pumps, and prices will continue to climb in an effort to force the U.S. government to allow offshore drilling again. Will BP pay for the spill – they may hand over some cash, but we will all, in Louisiana or out of it, be paying BP and the rest of the industry back. Just in case you thought they were taking responsibility.
Nothing is about responsibility. Everything is about profit.
I watched PBS last night, “Secrets Beneath the Ice”. The image of our globe if Antarctica melts is radically different. Fortunately I live very far inland. Those oil magnates busy disputing global warming, well let’s just say I hope they own beach front property. We have only to look at Greenland, and the loss of the Larsen Ice Shelf in January 2002, to see how this is going to play out. Massive population reduction if we can’t turn it around.
But then, we can’t reduce Earth’s population any other way, can we? If we talk about birth control and limiting population growth, the American conservative movement would have a field day saying we’re talking about state-mandated abortion, or death panels.
So I say, make more babies, burn more oil, and drill baby drill. We should lose 5 or 6 million people in the first wave, and boating could become fashionable in some previously dry parts of the world. I give up.
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