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Henry Kissinger's Pandemic Op-Ed

from #194 - We're Going Home | The Tim Dillon Show · #194

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Tim reads and reacts to a Kissinger Wall Street Journal piece about the pandemic altering world order, connecting it to how much medicine and pharmaceutical supply is manufactured in China.

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  • Kissinger writes about pandemic altering world order, calling for global cooperation to defeat pandemics.
  • Tim argues the real problem is having everything manufactured in other countries to avoid paying workers.
  • The percentage of pharmaceuticals made in China is jarring—blood pressure medication, Alzheimer's drugs, Parkinson's, epilepsy, depression meds, ibuprofen.
  • So much of over-the-counter and serious medications that people need are made in China; outsourcing everything creates disaster if supply chains break down.
  • US-China economic and security review commission held a hearing on America's growing reliance on Chinese pharmaceutical products: 97% of all antibiotics come from China.
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