The U.S. relies on imported medicines from China in a big way. Antibiotics, over-the-counter pain meds and the stuff that stops itching and swelling — a lot of it is imported from China.
The US and China so far have left pharmaceuticals out of the bilateral trade war, including the announcement last week of a mini deal. While Trump had used national security as a rationale to slap tariffs or trade sanctions on a variety of imports, medical supplies haven’t fallen under such scrutiny. But the U.S. is woefully unprepared to address even minor disruptions in the supply of these drugs.
“Medicines can be used as a weapon of war against the United States,” Rosemary Gibson, a senior adviser on health care issues at the bioethics-focused Hastings Center and co-author of “China Rx: Exposing the Risks of America's Dependence on China for Medicine,” told lawmakers last month. “Supplies can be withheld. Medicines can be made with lethal contaminants or sold without any real medicine in them, rendering them ineffective.”
Last year, China 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 Commerce Department data.
Antidepressants work over time, accumulating in the brain. They don’t produce immediate effects. It can take over a month before an Antidepressant starts working.
Most Antidepressant abuse is typically someone increasing their prescribed dose when they feel like the drug isn’t working fast enough. Some people combine Antidepressants with other substances, like alcohol, in an attempt to amplify the medication’s effects. Over time, Antidepressants can stop working for those who truly need them. This can lead some users to increase their doses when they can’t find the relief they need on what was initially prescribed.
“I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong. Like all the drugs put together — the [L]ithium, the Prozac, the [D]esipramine, and Desyrel that I take to sleep at night — can no longer combat whatever it is that was wrong with me in the first place.” Author Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation, 1994
Like most drugs, taking large doses of Antidepressants can be dangerous and can also increase the likelihood of seizures. People abusing Antidepressants increase their risk of overdosing.
Antidepressants are prescription medications used to treat moderate to severe depression. The most common forms of Antidepressant medication are selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs). SSRIs treat depression by changing the brain’s chemical balance of serotonin. This chemical impacts mood and helps people feel positive about their lives. SNRIs similarly boost mood by interacting with norepinephrine and serotonin in the brain. Doctors also prescribe Antidepressants to treat Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Generalized Anxiety Disorder.
We surveyed Americans 18 and older about their phone habits and behaviors. And like Narcissus staring into an endless pool of reflection, most of us can’t live without our cellphones in sight for very long—if at all.
Our cell phones are our constant companions. As many as 71% of us check our phones within 10 minutes of waking up. And 74% of us can’t leave our cell phones at home without feeling uneasy. Nor can we imagine our little companions dying—48% of people say they feel a sense of panic or anxiety when their cell phone battery goes below 20%.
Even while driving, 35% of Americans use or look at their cell phones. On romantic dates, 43% of us are more wrapped up in our phones than our partner’s company.
And when we say “I couldn’t be without our cell phones for five minutes,” most of us mean it—70% of Americans check their phones within five minutes of receiving a notification. On average, we check our phones every four minutes.
Over half of Americans have never gone longer than 24 hours without their cell phones.
We’re so reliant on our phones that 61% of us have texted someone in the same room as us. And, lest we sit enthroned without our cell phone scepters, 64% of us use our phones on the toilet too.
It’s no surprise that 45% of Americans say that their phone is the most valuable possession. What is surprising is how far our obsessions with cell phones go:
· Over one-third of Americans (36%) say they’d give up their pets to keep their cell phone.
· 53% say that in a house fire or other disaster, their cell phone would be the number one possession they’d try to save
· 26% say they’ve endangered themselves to avoid losing or damaging their cell phone
Now, we’re not saying you should stop endlessly scrolling, but we’d like you to keep yourself (and your animal friends) safe—you can always replace your cell phone!
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Americans have become insane, ignorant, stupid, fat, lazy, out of shape, brainwashed cellphone and prescription drug addicts, as a nation of self-idolaters social media grazing their lives away for the easy brain titillation of instant gratification, while holding their hands out for more government welfare largesse and freebies paid for by their laboring taxpayer neighbors. With the 5-G total surveillance 24-7-365 facial recognition tracking Smartphones as their constant companions, they wander through life completely oblivious to their reality of living in a mouse maze existence of totalitarian serfdom control they find themselves surrounded by today. No wonder the globalist elite megalomaniac money changers are emboldened to spring traps like CoVid and the Joe Bite-Me stolen election schemes, with computer DOMINION Made in China voting machines and blatant ballot harvesting to control all election outcomes, regardless of the true voting selections chosen by the duped and mesmerized sheeple.
This is the NEW WORLD ORDER: the absolute control of every living soul. And my, how My people love to have it so!
“If you want to get rid of some people quickly, then just tell them the Truth. Start preaching to them and ask them for money. They will disappear from your presence like a shot fired out of the barrel of a rifle. A wicked and adulterous generation will not stand to hear the Truth, for their eyes are blind and their ears are deaf to it.” Reddiver
There was a day in America when things were not so insane, upside down and backwards; before Marxist Communism ruled the roost in all government academia. Men were real men and women were real women, and it didn’t take a rocket scientist to discern the difference between them! Only the True Way of Christianity will restore that time once again to these several united States in the New Jer-USA-lem.
“You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.”
Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, WWII.
1 Peter 5:8: Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
Matthew 10:16: Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves.
“We (The lawless Demon-Rat and treasonous RINO political parties bribed by CHICOM money) have put together I think the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.” – Joe Biden, on the 2020 POTUS election campaign trail against Donald Trump.
“The struggle for our democracy is no longer just about who gets to vote. It’s about who counts the votes—and whether they should count at all.” – Joe Biden
"You know, comrades," says Stalin, "that I think in regard to this: I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this — who will count the votes, and how."
“The Chinese people’s mental state: Their eyes are blinded and their ears are blocked. They know little about the world and live in an illusion.” — Liu Hu, Chinese Investigative journalist describing the coming digital dictatorship in China by 2020. 9-20-18.
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