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Coronavirus: Kodak pivots itself to become strategic drug maker
- ggm 6y agoKodak always was in the chemistry business. Drugs are chemistry. Kodak is why we have 35mm and 70mm movie film: it's the production cycle sizes they could make when acetate was invented as a chemistry flow process. Ten minute reels and the crank rate for film, and lenses all stem from production limits to technology when Kodak and a small number of like companies made the photographic world.
- onetimemanytime 6y agowhat an amazing brand Kodak is /was. Worldwide and a few decades back, their name was everywhere. I posted this to also show that USA is finally waking up and doing essential meds in house. Can't ask China to ship penicillin if we're at war with them.
- ggm 6y agoIt's not a war
- onetimemanytime 6y agostates (should) prepare for every possible contingency. Once war starts, it's too late. I'm sure USA has a plan to invade Canada somewhere in the shelves. Here's something https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Plan_Red https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Plan_Red
- ggm 6y agoThe current president is the only one with any delusion that his populus want him to invade Canada. What he misunderstands is that they want to "invade" to get cheap healthcare, and rational (relatively speaking) social order. Its not lebensraum, its "escape from new york". That aside, all states plan for war, but health economics and strategic supply chain risks here don't need war plans to justify them. Self reliance is so good, it generates surpluses and America could turn from a health problem, to a health solution for others: in times of strife, your strategic assets help you AND help everyone else.