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2005-06-18 China-Japan-Koreas

Bird Flu Drug Rendered Useless (By China)

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Posted by phil_b 2005-06-18 05:22|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Yup, that sounds about right.

You don't need a prescription for antibiotics, either. I can get amoxicillin right off the shelf from the drugstore.

Posted by gromky">gromky 2005-06-18 05:46|| http://communistposters.com/]">[http://communistposters.com/] 2005-06-18 05:46|| Front Page Top

#2 In Australia, I have to get a prescription for antibiotics/anti virals

but if I order them from the states or somewhere, customs will check my mail.

so how am i gonna stockpile?

Posted by anon1 2005-06-18 07:11|| 2005-06-18 07:11|| Front Page Top

#3 anon1, your only options are to scam doctors - not that hard just research your story first, or get someone who is going overseas to somewhere where they can buy over the counter. A person can bring in a 3 month supply of a medication at the manufacturers recommended maximum dose. They just have to say its for their own personal use.

Posted by phil_b 2005-06-18 07:23|| 2005-06-18 07:23|| Front Page Top

#4 Thanks, phil!

Posted by anon1 2005-06-18 08:39|| 2005-06-18 08:39|| Front Page Top

#5 thanks China! Stupid backwards ass-covering bureaucrats will bring a frigging plague upon us and we won't have an effective recourse. I just hope China's wiped out first, starting with the Politburo, then VN. Quarantine them at first (published) outbreak ...as if they'd tell us promptly

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-06-18 10:50|| 2005-06-18 10:50|| Front Page Top

#6 I just hope China's wiped out first, starting with the Politburo, then VN.

Given that flu outbreaks usually originate in that region, it's always a possibility.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-06-18 12:16|| 2005-06-18 12:16|| Front Page Top

#7 Thanks for the post, phil_b - I appreciate how you stay so closely on top of this news topic. The stories don't instill fear (Anymore - I read The Coming Plague over a decade ago, so I've already been scared witless and recovered, lol!) but they do stoke a slow-burn anger at Asia, in general, and China, in particular for the cavalier / paranoid (weird combo) handling of something which could become a pandemic almost overnight.

The really amazing thing, and this story is a prime example of it, is that they seem to choose precisely the wrong thing to do at every critical decision step along the way. I presume they are not trying to create a pandemic, but you certainly wouldn't know it by examining their actions.

They just might succeed, far better than ever imagined, in handling that little population problem.

Posted by .com 2005-06-18 21:19|| 2005-06-18 21:19|| Front Page Top

#8 Someone who can read Chinese and is following Chinese language sources remarked yesterday that the Chinese government seems unusually paranoid even for them. Here

Do what you wish, but I am stocking up on stuff and have a backup means of cooking if I lose electricity and gas. Keeping warm isn't a real issue here. Next step is a means to store enough water for a weeks use.

The problem with a panic is everyone does it at the same time.

Posted by phil_b 2005-06-18 22:52|| 2005-06-18 22:52|| Front Page Top

#9 Phil, apparently sari silk makes a fabulous water filter -- if you boil or treat the water first, let it settle, then pour through the silk to get out all the icky particulates. So you can probably get by with a 3-day supply of bottled water to get past the initial difficulties (4 liters/person/day for drinking as I recall). I keep distilled water in gallon plastic jugs, which I use anyway for ironing Mr. Wife's work shirts, and tomorrow he gets a chainsaw for Father's Day/ 23rd wedding anniversary, which he can use to create firewood. ;-) Do you really think bad days are a'coming, or are you just taking sensible precautions?

Posted by trailing wife 2005-06-18 23:34|| 2005-06-18 23:34|| Front Page Top

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