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5/ I was raised, the scion of a Western industrial pharmacist, in Asia. Much like Dad, I simply presumed multinational medicine an unquestionable kindness to the world. We were doing good as we saw it, blind neither to scientific sense, nor conscience.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 3 Jan 2021

1/7 Chatting with a gardening pal today about poppies, I mention that my father was, for a while, the pointman purchasing seized opium out of SE Asia for Glaxo, now GSK, one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies. So, from where does Purdue Pharma source its opiates?

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Quoted by@Kairos_Center 2/ Fate? That ‘folk medicine’ can effectively tackle Covid, where modern medicine cannot? Or, a further example of the more-than-human force of mercy and righteousness, entering history. The divine hand is not at war with, but biotically aligned & congruent with, poor folk.