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- 30 de Jul, 2017
To avoid derailing the thread too much, the drug industry does have problems, it's not filled with angels - but it's not filled with devils either and there's a lot of complicated moving parts that are feeding in on each other to render it the monumental clusterfuck it is.
Let's just take a very simple example involving a recent panic. A doctor figured out that a decrease in blood oxygen levels had a strong correlation to the kung flu infection. Even people who seemed to otherwise be asymptomatic showed this drop in blood oxygen.
Now it's not hard to text blood oxygen, the tech for it has been around since before 1975. In fact, any device you go to the store to buy to measure such a thing is using a pre-75 design to test. And of course only a few thousand or million are needed each year, so what happens when you have a sudden surge in demand? Yep, they sold out everywhere.
But it gets funnier. The test for blood oxygen? It's a test so easy, fitness watches can do it. Some of the latest Samsung phones has the tech to measure blood oxygen of the user built in, right now.
Do you remember a national announcement going out about apps being available or tech in people's phones being activated so they could all start running tests to see if they have potential wuflu? No you didn't miss it. It never happened. Why?
In 1976 a law was passed giving the FDA control and regulation over medical devices the same as it has over drugs. (Thus why I mentioned 1975 earlier.) So guess what? You're a smart phone maker, you give it the ability to scan the user for medical info - this now makes your phone a medical device. A medical device that has to be FDA approved. An approval process that can take years in some cases. Do you think any phone maker wants to delay their latest product by that much? You think Samsung wants to be pushing out the S Galaxy 2 while the iPhone is up to version 12? Hell no, it's market competition suicide.
So the phone makers just block those features of their phones and ban apps that would allow anything of their phones to fall under FDA scrutiny. Even though this time it gimped our ability to try and trace the COVID.
Always keep in mind the saying: "If you think the problem is bad, wait until you see government's solution."
Let's just take a very simple example involving a recent panic. A doctor figured out that a decrease in blood oxygen levels had a strong correlation to the kung flu infection. Even people who seemed to otherwise be asymptomatic showed this drop in blood oxygen.
Now it's not hard to text blood oxygen, the tech for it has been around since before 1975. In fact, any device you go to the store to buy to measure such a thing is using a pre-75 design to test. And of course only a few thousand or million are needed each year, so what happens when you have a sudden surge in demand? Yep, they sold out everywhere.
But it gets funnier. The test for blood oxygen? It's a test so easy, fitness watches can do it. Some of the latest Samsung phones has the tech to measure blood oxygen of the user built in, right now.
Do you remember a national announcement going out about apps being available or tech in people's phones being activated so they could all start running tests to see if they have potential wuflu? No you didn't miss it. It never happened. Why?
In 1976 a law was passed giving the FDA control and regulation over medical devices the same as it has over drugs. (Thus why I mentioned 1975 earlier.) So guess what? You're a smart phone maker, you give it the ability to scan the user for medical info - this now makes your phone a medical device. A medical device that has to be FDA approved. An approval process that can take years in some cases. Do you think any phone maker wants to delay their latest product by that much? You think Samsung wants to be pushing out the S Galaxy 2 while the iPhone is up to version 12? Hell no, it's market competition suicide.
So the phone makers just block those features of their phones and ban apps that would allow anything of their phones to fall under FDA scrutiny. Even though this time it gimped our ability to try and trace the COVID.
Always keep in mind the saying: "If you think the problem is bad, wait until you see government's solution."
