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To: skinowski who wrote (707100)	3/16/2020 1:05:47 PM
From: sm1th	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 794271

Since domestic manufacturers can’t compete, do we need to subsidize - or nationalize - the entire industry? All of the politicians are promising to lower drug prices, which will be a lot harder if production is domestic.

To: skinowski who wrote (707100)	3/16/2020 1:24:19 PM
From: MulhollandDrive	3 Recommendations Recommended By burlegoat pak73 Tom Clarke Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 794271

my understanding from what i have read is that the virus was 'discovered' as the illness started presenting was in November....and that the chinese government was telling doctors to stay quiet about the nature of the novel virus for nearly 2 months....i didn't save my links to these stories, but a search could most likely bring them up what do you mean by saying it was to 'their credit' to have the young doctor who was sounding the alarm early go back on his words? that doesn't make sense And medications are far from being the only strategically important industry. exactly right as far as supply chains go, manufacturing Tshirts and sneakers are one thing, having a big majority of medicine coming from a country with authoritarian 'president for life' regimes is insanity....especially when china has specifically stated it is their goal to overtake the US as a world economic power....but even apart from that, we should never have that much concentration of our supply chain coming from one country....how 'bout we 'spread the wealth' around, my thyroid med comes from australia ....not exactly a cheap labor country what about huawei? it should be obvious that the US should not be farming out critical, national security related manufacturing to china or any other country for that matter getting rid of excessive bureaucracy and regulation is a good start....our whole 'test kit' debacle starts there..if we learn nothing from that totally preventable situation we deserve what we get

To: skinowski who wrote (707100)	3/16/2020 1:31:17 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Respond to of 794271

I haven’t seen anything convincing yet with regard of the origins of this virus. The thing is, the numbers of viruses in nature are just as incomprehensible to human mind as the numbers of molecules out there. I highly recommend watching/listening to the Joe Rogan podcast with Michael Osterholm that was posted upstream several days ago. It has a good discussion of this virus and the problem with the Chinese “wet markets” that could be a source of this virus developing and jumping species. It’s a wide-ranging discussion that also includes discussion of prions (wasting disease), Lyme disease and other public health concerns. 1.5 hours. I listened to it in the car on a drive to Spokane.

To: skinowski who wrote (707100)	3/16/2020 2:18:19 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794271

The story I believe is that one of our top CDC people is friendly with a top Chinese Doctor who passed it along to him. That was the basis for Trump's move to cut Chinese off from coming here the end of January which the Dem's denounced. I believe the wild animal source also from what I have read.