It's amazing how it requires the arrival of The Spectre of Death for people to learn to wash their damn hands...It has taught us how to wash our hands. Imagine all the sicknesses we will be spared from thanks to this new habit we are acquiring.
Maybe since the Chinese threatened to withhold drugs, the world will wise up and take production of all drugs and their precursors out of that country. Chinese communists are unreliable and don't produce reliable products.
Time to start going for cheapie cheapie everything.
This is one of the most important lessons we can learn. The only thing we can depend on from China is oppression (to their own people) and sickness. We need to get essentials' manufacturing back to the North America and Europe.
What about to the DR? We are in the backyard and need jobs. Now is the time to rethink depending mostly on tourism...
DR could be a base for manufacturing drugs, as was Puerto Rico, but unreliable and too expensive power together with poor quality water are also the reasons many pharmaceuticals left PR. And an inefficient workforce.
But it's worth a try if there is a good source of clean well water near real 24/7 power ?
Sounds like an opportunity for drug manufacturing in Free Zones...IF the local edumacation system can supply the required skilled labor.What's stopping the DR from diversifying the economy? Oh yeah, corruption and an indifferent attitude. You just can't seem to get anything substantial started here unless everyone else's pockets are full first. Then these same officials keep coming around ringing the doorbell checking to see if everything is ok? Which it's not so round and round it goes.
No major manufacturing here until all that changes and needed materials can be imported reliably and cheaply.
DR could be a base for manufacturing drugs, as was Puerto Rico, but unreliable and too expensive power together with poor quality water are also the reasons many pharmaceuticals left PR. And an inefficient workforce.
But it's worth a try if there is a good source of clean well water near real 24/7 power ?
The majority of pharmaceuticals available in RD are produced in South America, not China. Read the fine print.