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How is this about regulation? Factories and supply chains can't just suddenly ramp up their production by an order of magnitude or more. You need to build new m

How is this about regulation? Factories and supply chains can't just suddenly ramp up their production by an order of magnitude or more. You need to build new machines, hire new workers, source new supplies, and figure out how to distribute it all. That can't just happen from one day or another, no matter how little regulation there is on the product.

renewiltord 7y ago
You’re overestimating the difficulty of this. But don’t trust me. Go talk to a generics drug manufacturer in India yourself.
- DangerousPie 7y ago
  So that's why it's so hard to find things like flour or toilet paper right now? Nothing to do with supply chains and manufacturing, just too much regulation? Can't wait until we repeal the 4-ply rule!
  - renewiltord 7y ago
    I haven’t looked at why flour or toilet paper have shortages and don’t know the primary factors there[1]. I’ve done all I that I care to to inform you. 1: It’s probably the bullwhip effect and hysteresis in the supply chain but that’s speculation on my part.
  - 3fe9a03ccd14ca5 7y ago
    It really lasted about 4 weeks of hoarding before the supply chain caught up. Costco today had those products as far as the eye can see. Besides, by requiring a prescription you’re negating the ability for people to hoard. And a single pallet of HCQ is enough to treat thousands of people. I really hope you look into how easy to manufacture and abundant HCQ is. It’s important to combat media scaremongering.
- TeMPOraL 7y ago
  > Go talk to a generics drug manufacturer in India yourself. You mean the country that, more than a month ago, restricted exports of many drugs and chemicals used to make drugs (the so-called Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients). Your local end of the pharmaceutical supply chain can't deliver drugs that can't be made anymore.
  - renewiltord 7y ago
    Hydroxychloroquine is exportable to the US from India currently. If I had lupus, I assure you I wouldn’t be sitting here worrying about my dose.

renewiltord 7y ago

You’re overestimating the difficulty of this. But don’t trust me. Go talk to a generics drug manufacturer in India yourself.

DangerousPie 7y ago
So that's why it's so hard to find things like flour or toilet paper right now? Nothing to do with supply chains and manufacturing, just too much regulation? Can't wait until we repeal the 4-ply rule!
- renewiltord 7y ago
  I haven’t looked at why flour or toilet paper have shortages and don’t know the primary factors there[1]. I’ve done all I that I care to to inform you. 1: It’s probably the bullwhip effect and hysteresis in the supply chain but that’s speculation on my part.
- 3fe9a03ccd14ca5 7y ago
  It really lasted about 4 weeks of hoarding before the supply chain caught up. Costco today had those products as far as the eye can see. Besides, by requiring a prescription you’re negating the ability for people to hoard. And a single pallet of HCQ is enough to treat thousands of people. I really hope you look into how easy to manufacture and abundant HCQ is. It’s important to combat media scaremongering.
TeMPOraL 7y ago
> Go talk to a generics drug manufacturer in India yourself. You mean the country that, more than a month ago, restricted exports of many drugs and chemicals used to make drugs (the so-called Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients). Your local end of the pharmaceutical supply chain can't deliver drugs that can't be made anymore.
- renewiltord 7y ago
  Hydroxychloroquine is exportable to the US from India currently. If I had lupus, I assure you I wouldn’t be sitting here worrying about my dose.