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Pole Dancers!

So, it’s about time that I start posting again, I might as well mention what I’ve been up to…

Being sick.

Whee!

It’s been a long drawn-out process involving huge amounts of coughing, two rounds of increasing nastiness antibiotics for a prolonged sinus infection, Kirsten taking two rounds of antibiotics for some sort of strep throatish infection, and now Sarah working on her second round of antibiotics for her first ear infection. Frankly, it’s just all uncool since I’m pretty sure that I spread the nastiness to my the rest of the family.

It’s raised a big question though since antibiotics are normal enough drugs these days that the insurance companies will only pay for you to get generics. ALL of the drugs that we’ve been taking lately have been made in India. All of them. It makes me wonder how much manufacturing capacity for drugs we actually have in the US anymore. What happens if some natural disaster or unnatural disaster cuts off trade for a couple of weeks? Ear infections don’t get cured for a while because everything is based on just-in-time supply chains?

It actually makes me think that the wacko survivalists might not be too far off track. I’m really thinking about talking to my doctor (well, Sarah’s doctor, I’m not so worried for myself) about getting a little supply of common stuff just in case.

I’d get a gun too, but Kirsten wouldn’t go for that.