Off topic kinda. China observer is reporting panic buying of doxycycline and ciprofloxacin both antibiotics along with fever reducers in North East China as fears over a new pandemic rise .Doxycycline is said to be unattainable leading to people asking who is hording this drug and why. Since no one was held accountable for the covid outbreak the fear is China will overnight issue a lockdown and once again inoculate people with an unknown substance only telling them its for your own good. The mother of the woman killed by supposedly the pneumonic plague has called the Russian story BS. Test tubes used in biological research are both shatter proof and fire resistant. She isn't alone as researchers are demanding Russia turn over the gene sequencing that would show the exact cause of death. This could be unjust panic caused by covid or round 2 of something more lethal. Time will tell.

Tim adds:

China is the world's chief manufacturer of antibiotics producing a whopping 42% of the world's antibiotics, so a hording problem is more serious than everyone thinks; it means a worldwide shortage, which means the Chicoms are planning for something big. Either they know something we don't (and it would be the Communist Party too; the public does what they are told and only knows what they are told) or they are manipulating prices to help raise money for something. Either way there is something rotten in the state of Denmark here.

Antibiotics aren't the only thing China is hoarding. They are hoarding fertilizer, food, gold, and they are no longer exporting refined petroleum. These are the actions of a nation planning to go to war.

If the Chicoms aren't planning war they at least are planning for something as disruptive - an economic collapse or worldwide pandemic or whatnot. You don't start hoarding stuff if you don't have something to fear. And they are realists in China.

This is a story to keep an eye on.