I mean what the feck? I haven't heard no Dem's address this issue at all. Anyone else? I have heard them all going along with Bush's be afraid of the pandemic BS but I haven't heard much else from them. Just as the cable news stations all simultaneously began rolling the footage of chickens flapping their wings en mass.
I find this troubling. I mean if this is such a danger to all of us shouldn't some "pre-emptive" strikes against it be suggested by the guys we are supposed to trust? I mean Jesus Christ look at this:
http://www.forbes.com/finance/feeds/afx/2005/10/12/afx2272224.html
Roche says Tamiflu generic would take 2-3 years, not had approaches about it
10.12.2005, 06:47 AM
ZURICH (AFX) - Roche Holding AG said it would take 2-3 years for a company to make a generic version of Tamiflu, the most effective antiviral treatment available for bird flu, due to the complexity of the production process, and no firm has approached Roche about doing so.
'Our assumption is that for a generic company, it would take two to three years to ramp up production,' a spokesman said, confirming an article in the Wall Street Journal. 'Neither a branded company nor a generic company has approached us about it.'
The company is under pressure to increase production of the antiviral drug as governments prepare for a possible pandemic. It plans to double Tamiflu production by the end of this year over 2004 levels and to double it again by mid-2006.
The spokesman said that the company already outsources some of the ten stages of production to a number of specialist companies in the US, Europe and Asia.
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Why doesn't some of our Democratic leaders demand that Bush nationalize a couple of drug companies here in the USA, in the name of national security of course, and start ramping up production of this antiviral drug if we should all be so afraid? Now. Not next year sometime. Right now. Make it available to everyone who wants it free of charge. Pass it out everywhere. Send it to me by mail. Don't know how to find me? Send it with my tax bill. I get that every year.
I also keep hearing no drug companies want to make a vaccine too. Same thing there. Where are the Dem's demanding that Bush nationalize a couple of vaccine makers here, again in the name of national security, and begin to ramp up production there.
This goes for any drug that could save millions of live if?/when? we have this pandemic. I mean for Christs sake 3000 people died on 9/11 and Bush and the Dem's spend hundreds of billions of dollars blowing up half the fecking world and we can't have some drugs ready if we need them for a fecking pandemic that Bush says will kill millions? Whats the matter with this picture?
Why the feck wait are the Dem's letting Bush's pandemic plan consist of getting treated like the people in New Orleans at the barrel of a gun by the Army when we have all this time to plan ahead? I am more worried about Bush calling out the military than I am about the fecking pandemic.
The Dem's could nail Bush to the wall on this one
if they wanted to. Because Bush isn't going to spend money on medicine when he has plenty bullets. But when Bush doesn't do these things and people start dying from influenza even the Freepers will be ready to tar and feather him.
WHERE IN THE FECK ARE OUR DEMOCRATIC LEADERS WHEN WE NEED THEM?
Don