A monk asked Joshu, a Chinese Zen master: `Has a dog Buddha-nature or not?'
Joshu answered: `Mu.'
Translated Mu = no thing
Rationalise that!
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A monk asked Joshu, a Chinese Zen master: `Has a dog Buddha-nature or not?'
Joshu answered: `Mu.'
Translated Mu = no thing
Rationalise that!
That’s the fundamental difference.
Western philosophy is all about thinking, a separate sense of self, rationalism
Eastern, Buddhism, daoism etc is the opposite
Eastern philosophy > Western
Western. I think, therefore I am
Eastern. I am, therefore I think
Thanks
Doctors in the UK could write me an RX and I could take it to Germany to fill.
So, just a £500 round trip to get a script filled?. The number of people doing that must be minuscule
Was a common thing for many who often had to work cross borders
So not common at all then.
But the extra work of filling forms and providing data evidence to support those forms is something that has to come from somewhere
Yep. But forms can be automated and policy can be written to make the UK more attractive for pharma
While at the same time we gain no ability to buy from out of EU nations that we did not have before brexit
Other than things like Project Orbis?
But you are still forgetting the main point. EMA allows the nations under it to move drugs around
Not during shortages, the Single Market doesn’t force anyone to share anything
If ou need a drug in one nation. That your helth service dosent want to provide. You can buy it yourself and import from another EU nation. As we could in 2019.
Without a prescription?
Now you cabnnot unless MHRA also covers it. So any drug created since 2020. Requires 2x the paperwork to even give you the option to buy.
The MHRA did the vast majority of the certification for the EMA…and the UK is still using the EU law and EMA to approve most medications
But, while the UK still relies on ema decisions, it has approved new cancer drugs more quickly
Brexit was also hailed as an opportunity for the UK to innovate alongside international partners, and here the UK has made progress. A number of schemes to fast-track promising drugs have borne fruit: in 2021, four innovative new cancer drugs were approved in the UK via an international scheme, Project Orbis, coordinated in the US with other non-EU partners. Additionally, the national Early Access to Medicines Scheme, which allows UK medics to prescribe before formal MHRA approval, saw another four medicines fast tracked for patients.
And the UK has the 7th largest share of the global pharma market. Do pharma suppliers not bother with approvals in Japan or Canada either?
The population of the EU is approx 448m (jan 1 23) the UK 67.7+m (23 no date) so the simple fact is where companies have a choice to sell. They have 6.5x the potential customers for exactly the same amount of documentation as the UK.
It’s not that simple though, the supposed panacea that is the single market is just that. You can’t just sell into the single market, you need sales and ops for each country.
In Germany, around 90% of medicines that obtain marketing authorisation from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) are available to citizens while in Lithuania, for example, it is only 20% of the approved drugs.
Another major problem is the length of time it takes for a drug to appear on the national market after EU registration.
Germany is again the leader in this respect, with a waiting time of around 100 days. At the other end of the spectrum is Romania, where the procedure can take up to 900 days, or 2.5 years. In the Czech Republic, the average time for the whole process is around 1.5 years.
Doubt. Brexit ‘red tape’ is just an import form. They aren’t that hard to figure out, especially as the majority of drugs are generics and are supplied from outside the EU anyway. Brexit just created a level playing field for all the pharma suppliers. I thought the EU wanted a LPF?
I think drug companies are quite keen to remain supplying one of the world’s biggest drug buyers 👇
UK should up it’s manufacturing and broaden its supply chain to ensure supply. Especially as it’s a Europe wide shortage and not brexit related. Kind of hard to import a drug if it’s not available
Cruella Braverman
Why are UK SF blocking their applications?
He has been suspended on full pay since July 2021.
Why?
It’ll be interesting to see the pollution data when they release it. But the further it expands from the city centre, the less public transport, and the more people are dependent on cars.
It’s be okay if they offered a decent scrappage scheme and invested in a public transport system so fewer cars were needed.
What’s that got to do with it? Do you think poor people choose to drive shitty old cars?
Moreover what? This is segregation by financial status. Poor people can go and breathe dirty air?
Diesel could be up to 2015, not sure there’s many families who can just find the cash for a newer car. Sounds like just stop being poor.
What’s the level above omnishambles
Me neither
The TfL director of strategy and policy, Christina Calderato, said the figures showed that the Ulez was “highly effective in taking the oldest, most polluting vehicles off the roads”.
Problem moved, not problem solved.
Are those vehicles off the road though? Or have they just moved?
Probably need a good shit.
Please and thank yous are enough to be polite to strangers.