What I find very surprising is the lack of house insulation requirements in many places in the US... Temperatures vary by about 70°c over here so our houses are well insulated for winter but it's also advantageous for hot summer days so you would believe in the warmer parts of the USA they would want to insulate their house so AC isn't wasted and it would also help for the few cold days they get every year... You just need a couple of space heaters just in case and you're good to keep a couple of rooms warm enough that it's not much of an issue when that happens...
Why is Australia being hit by them? I thought this was just an Australian thing... A few years ago Metformin - a diabetes drug with many generic brands was in low supply. Two years ago my birth control (the only norethisterone only pill in our market) was unavailable for 6 months out of the blue. Starting around September last year the medicated eye gel I need was unavailable, no other product in our market with those ingredients... it has only recently become available again last week. I bought 3 tubes.
To top all that off, late last year we find out that 50mg vyvanse - an adhd med my daughter and I are both on - is unavailable and won't be available til maybe the end of the January. Of course 50mg is the most common dose and our psychiatrist was away for the holidays, leading to a mad scramble for our GP to request emergency permission to prescribe and the psych to pause his holidays to write letters authorizing prescribing to dozens of GPs for his patients. We now have had to pay twice as much and drive to neighbouring towns and sometimes multiple pharmacies, to get 20mg and 30 mg.
In France, people were surprised because we have big historic pharma corporation, with tons of public subventions. However this shortage revealed that they make the packaging of the drugs now. The actual substances are made elsewere.
They also focus on R&D for new bankable drugs. Not the ones that are important - new ones that could make tons of money. I have a thin hope that the gouvernement will make new regulations to produce locally.
They overthrew. You can't just take by force and demand recognition
Lmao ig the Bengalis, Cubans, and all the British colonies should've continued to be slaughtered and exploited by "their" governments instead of taking control by force. What a disgusting thing to say.
no fan of the US. Quite the contrary. But i still prefer them
is watching their government funding a genocide in real timewhat-the-hell
Cult != Race. If you want to be taken seriously outside your circle-jerk-bubble, phrase adequately.
This was just a comment out of politeness. Won't reply further because it's boring.
You can't just take by force and demand recognition.
Okay but that’s basically how it’s always been done. “I don’t recognize the American government because they did violence against the British colonial government.” “I don’t recognize the government of Germany because it’s the result of the violent overthrow of the 1933-1945 government.”
Political power comes from the barrel of a gun, etc etc
An estimated 95 million people were under weather warnings or advisories for wind chills -0F (-17 C), according to the weather service. Forecasters said the severe cold could push as far south as northern Texas.
American here, I agree, our anachronistic measurement systems and twisted pride in them is insane (but insanity is perfectly normal here).
In the lower Midwest it is currently -22C (-8F) in Kansas City and Chicago.
In the upper Midwest it's about -25C (--13F) in Fargo, North Dakota and 27C (-17F) in Billings, Montana.
Temperatures are usually 10-15 degrees C higher this time of year, so this weather is quite dangerous.
Edit: I'm only citing air temperatures above. We use the term "windchill" in place of what most countries call "perceived temperature" which tries to estimate what it feels like outside by factoring in wind and humidity conditions. The windchill in those cities would be much lower than the air temperatures. When it gets this cold though, numbers are pretty abstract. It would be more useful to say like the number of minutes exposed skin has until frostbite sets in.
Drug makers in the US also intend to fight the plans. Stephen Ubl, CEO of the powerful trade group PhRMA—Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America—said in a statement that the group is "deeply concerned with the FDA’s reckless decision to approve Florida’s state importation plan" and claimed importation "poses a serious danger to public health." Ubl concluded that "PhRMA is considering all options for preventing this policy from harming patients."
Sure, that’s the concern here, Big Pharma lol…not harming your wallet by getting undercut by cheaper competition. Likely by the same exact drug they sell over the border elsewhere but overcharge Americans on.
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