"Well," as my Irish grandmother from County Roscomon use to say. "There now. I suppose we now know how you feel about that."
jrs P.S. Not that I disagree, I guiltily confess, very much with the substance of your post. I do think your brush is pretty wide, as some of us Americans say. But you score some palpable hits, to mix some Shakespeare into this thread in what I hope is a suitably Silklistian way. On Aug 7, 2012, at 10:54 PM, ss wrote: > On Wednesday 08 Aug 2012 1:12:33 am Eugen Leitl wrote: >> Currently we face severe shortage of thyroxine, neomercazole, procarbizole, >> digoxin, alprazolam, sleep inducers, and injectable beta blockers to name a >> few. > > These are manufactured and available in India in huge amounts and at lower > prices than anywhere else in the world. Thyroxine for example costs less than > US$ 0.02 per tablet (listed price) - so that a year's supply of tablets is > available for about US $5 > > But Pakistan will not import from India for a multitude of reasons including > the fact that Pakistan's major export to India is terrorism and Islamic > irredentism which is all that Pakistan seems to be able trade in exchange for > imports. > > They could try their "taller than tallest mountain" friends the Chinese, but > spurious drugs from China are part of their problem as far as my knowledge > goes. > > shiv >
