co·in·ci·dence /kōˈinsədəns/ noun; a remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances without apparent causal connection.
You ever find yourself looking at a situation and realizing there are just too many coincidences for your comfort? I’ve been there for the last couple weeks and the more laps I run around this stump the dizzier I’m getting. So I figured I’d just write it all down and air it out.
I’ve been hearing that upwards of 80% of our pharmaceuticals are manufactured in China. So I started doing some research on this to make sure what I was being told was accurate. Low and behold, it was. There’s a lot of convoluted or contested information out there, but it’s pretty evident that most of our medications, or the ingredients to produce medications, are controlled by China.
Then I ran into this article. https://www.healthline.com/health-news/china-control-over-your-prescription-drugs#The-manufacturing-issue
As you read it, note the date: September 19th, 2019. Read the whole thing, but make damn sure you read the sixth paragraph….and again…note the date. Go ahead…I’ll wait right here.
Now…I’m not going to run you all over the internet following hyperlinks to the stuff I’ve read over the last couple weeks verifying this information. You can put that time in yourself, if you’re so inclined. Truth be told, pharmaceutical outsourcing to China is only part of what’s on my mind right now anyway. I’m not going to get into the lack of quality control or anything about the FDA violations of the last decade….I’m concentrating primarily on the money and the power.
After all the reading and research, the endless trips down rabbit holes and some absolutely frightening discoveries, there’s no doubt in my mind that when you talk about Big Pharma you’re also talking about the People’s Republic of China. For those of you not familiar with the inner-workings of a communist nation, the government makes all the money and the people do all the work for next to nothing. As you research you’ll find estimates that range from 400 billion to a trillion dollars in pharmaceutical related global revenue comes into China annually.
Okay…Let’s take a look at the Affordable Care Act for just a minute. Obamacare dropped prescription drug prices on quite a few medications, but nearly a dozen of the most common antibiotic and pain medications doubled or even tripled in price. The huge difference Big Pharma felt when the ACA went into effect wasn’t in the price though…it was felt in the volume of sales. 300,000 people who previously couldn’t afford their medication suddenly had insurance that paid for their medication. People getting the meds they need is a good thing, right? But…even if the meds were at a reduced cost, where did that money come from? American tax-payers. Where did a large portion of it go? China via Big Pharma.
If you’ve got a few hours to spare and would like to look at something interesting, I suggest spending a little time here: https://www.followthemoney.org/ As you dig through the data and go back through the years, you’ll start to notice a trend…medical industries as a whole donate a pile of money, primarily to Democratic candidates….the corporations that make up Big Pharma among them. That’s just what we can see. There’s no telling how much of the money coming from the Political Action Committees (PAC’s) was fronted by Big Pharma. As we’ve already discussed, who is Big Pharma in cahoots with? That’s right, folks….China.
So….what did Donald J. Trump do on Day 1 in the Oval Office? He started to dismantle Obamacare, didn’t he? Had the Republicans been able to hold the house in the 2018 mid-terms the ACA would probably be nothing but a notation in history right now.
Then the President set his sights on bringing manufacturing back from overseas. The stock market is soaring, unemployment is dropping, the Gross Domestic Product is hitting numbers his predecessors said were a thing of the past and the United States is now negotiating from a position of power for the first time in decades. We’re demanding that the rest of our allies pay their fair share in global matters, Trade agreements are getting negotiated and the playing field around the planet is leveling out. Through the bullshit investigations and the debacle of an impeachment trial the economic power of the country continues to break records.
Before too long, he’s pushing China around for a new trade agreement…at the same time the Democratic party is trying to find a candidate who can unseat Trump. China is against the ropes and has no real choice other than enter into a trade agreement that they’re not happy with. The DNC is against the ropes as well, wrought with inter-party division and unable to find a candidate who appeals to anything other than either moderate liberals or hard core leftists who are hell-bent on socialism…and they know neither option is going to be enough to take back the White House.
So we were sitting there at the end of 2019 with the best economy in history, an idiot or a socialist taking the presidential candidacy for the Democratic party, House and Senate Democrats looking like fools in the aftermath of the impeachment hearings and staring at possible legal fallout on the horizon for a lot of politicians who had their names come up in the investigations of Ukraine.
China is sitting on the other side of the planet dealing with civil unrest and bad publicity in the Hong Kong riots, bloodied and bruised from the economic trade agreement with the U.S. and knowing….absolutely KNOWING….that if President Trump gets reelected, a lot of their income from Pharmaceutical manufacture is going to hell in a hand cart as more industry moves back to American soil and the Affordable Care Act gets dismantled.
So if you’re the DNC, China and Big Pharma the future is looking pretty damn bleak right now. How do you get back on top? The only way to get everything back to the way it was four years ago is to crash the U.S. economy….they need it to crash quick and they need it to crash hard…the election is coming up quick.
I’d have never thought it would be as easy as it was. But, Hell…there was a playbook for it released in an online article on September 19th, 2019. Just release a bug….pay the W.H.O to pander around a little bit until the bug gets it’s legs under it…now who do we have on prime time television in America every single night that can put people at ease or keep them focused on something else until this little bug manifests into a global pandemic? How about a host of Presidential candidates…yeah, that should work. Then the mainstream media will echo what the candidates say as well as tell the American public that the President is overreacting because he’s simply xenophobic or racist when he starts making an attempt to block the virus…but by then it will be too late.
Still think COVID-19 jumped from under-cooked bats to humans through a wet market in Wuhan? Consider this for a minute: Wuhan is the epicenter of the global coronavirus outbreak. That city sits in the Hubei Province. China’s Hubei province contains three government funded, experimental microbiology labs. It’s also home to a dozen pharmaceutical plants supplying the US with everything from painkillers and anti-inflammatory drugs to antibiotics.
I’m not a conspiracy theory guy. I’m really not. I’d love to get back to writing about growing up in a small town, the places I’ve been, the people I’ve met or the joys of living in Appalachia again. But those thoughts stay distant here lately. I get flashes of them and they do make me smile….I can get lost in music or I can walk in the woods and clear my head…but lately this mess keeps creeping back into my mind more and more frequently. I don’t now exactly why.
However, there are some things I do know. I know for a fact that there’s rarely such thing as a true coincidence…Let alone this much damn coincidence. I know three of the most powerful forces on the planet had a LOT to gain if the U.S. economy crashed…Hell, their livelihoods almost depended on the economy crashing….and it’s not too difficult to tie all three of them into the rise of the pandemic, now is it? I know those three entities don’t care about us…they don’t care about the sickness…they don’t care about the loss of life…they care about money and power.
Big Pharma doesn’t give a shit. The sicker people get (or at least think they’re getting) the more money Big Pharma makes. Hell, the U.S. government has been funneling them money hand over fist since this mess started for research and development of a possible antidote or vaccine. Where do you figure those drugs will be manufactured?
You think the People’s Republic cares? China reports less than 5,000 deaths from COVID-19. To quote Uncle Benny from Lethal Weapon 3; “Too Bad…Billion more where they came from”. The way they were beating unarmed people in the streets of Hong Kong six months ago should tell you how they feel about the value of human life.
Our elected officials? Well these great humanitarians held up an economic recovery bill in the House of Representatives for an extra six days until they could get 25 million dollars tacked onto it for the Kennedy Performing Arts Center and then they video their $2500 refrigerator full of $12 a pint ice cream to air on a national medium while half the country is trying to figure out how to make rent. We are the furthest thing from their minds in every aspect aside from polling numbers.
I may be wrong. I mean…I don’t watch a lot of news, I’m not Harvard educated, and even if I was that well educated and lived in front of a television I’d know I’m only getting a quarter of the truth anyway. Hell, I’m just a hillbilly kid from a town with one traffic light…what the hell do I know?
I truly hope I’m wrong.
But what if I’m not?