Makes sense. I’d imagine another cause for earlier mortality rates would be being less able to hear something dangerous around you, or coming at you.
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I’ll never understand why he didn’t go with the 1988 Geo Spectrum
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Because the car first appeared in Evil Dead?
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Well, ok. If you are taking temporality into consideration, I guess that’s a legitimate reason.
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That’ll be this new-fangled bookchain I have been reading about
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Remember all the efforts to prevent people in the US from getting prescription medications from Canada, with claims the products were unsafe? Looks like the forces against it are failing…
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I ordered from Canada for several years when I didn’t have insurance.
Thank you, Canada.
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Human Bookworm.
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Well would you look at that. It’s something I have been saying for quite a while on the BBS that should be mandatory in schools
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Could somebody tell my parents?
They don’t listen to me.
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What?
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Hate to dump on this otherwise good news, but the Canadian supply can’t fill the Florida+ demand unless the manufacturers greatly increase production, which is already spotty on some drugs. (And where it’s the same manufacturer on both sides of the border, that would cost them money.)
This debate is not new. In 2019, then-U.S. president Donald Trump proposed a rule to allow wholesale bulk imports of prescription drugs, promising it would be a “game changer for American seniors.”
Within months, the Canadian government blocked bulk exports of some prescription drugs to stave off the risk of shortages at home.
DeSantis will blame Canada, but in the end, the US will have to solve its own problem.
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I’ve seen reports about improving pharma industry resilience (after disasters) and increasing domestic production (in countries where outsourcing caused shortages/cost issues). Hopefully, post-pandemic focus on supply chains will promote positive change. A key point will be separating real shortages from manufactured ones.
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Increasing supply chain durability is good, but in the end:
Canada can’t be America’s drug colony.
I mean, the US already makes all those drugs (at the same production costs as Canada). The reason ours are cheaper is because we’ve done all the heavy lifting of political fights, legislation, regulation, collective bargaining, etc.
DeSantis and others want to reap the benefits of socialism by proxy. 
eta: I wonder how this will game out when Canada has to say “No, sorry.”? Behind the Republicans, the right libertarians absolutely detest the awkward example of Canada’s socialized healthcare right next door, and would love to discredit, disrupt or destroy it.
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Meanwhile a majority (minus effects of gerrymandering and voter denial, but in Florida, it does seem to be a real majority) specifically vote AGAINST all of this. But they want to have their cake and eat it too.
I think Canada should say “sure, those states which vote for the ACA, but we won’t ship to Florida.” And then watch when grandma and grandpa have to beg their progressive grandchildren in icky places like Chicago, Philly, NYC, San Fran, etc. to help them get their drugs.
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