The governing party fails to understand the seriousness of the problem of this almost perfect storm! Well, although the second shipment of Operation Fly Formula, with powdered milk of the Nestlé brand, or formula for babies with lactose intolerance, arrived from Germany, are still waiting for the food to reach the bottles or bottles of newborns.
According to a report by Oxfam, each 19 hours there is a new billionaire in the world, but that wealth is not enough for the United States to offer the formula in supermarkets, because the Food and Drug Administration , FDA, as an independent government agency Biden ordered the closure of the Abbott plant in Sturgis, Michigan, from February 2022, after suspected bacterial contamination.
That lack of the vital product for babies, which speaks of a monopoly of production, added to inflation and gasoline hovering around $6, could cost the Democrats dearly in the elections of November, when it is defined whether there will be continuity in the governorship of the state of New York.
By something in the campaign that brought Bill Clinton to the White House became famous the phase “is the economy stupid” and voters with children feel at the mercy of the market as silent witnesses of dependence on other economies.
In 2020, the Covid-19 showed the danger for the United States due to send the production of everything, even temporary protective equipment or PPE for health personnel to Chinese factories.
And today we blame our problems on failures in the supply chain, or the lack of truck drivers, since goods got stuck in the Suez Canal and because, here, a multinational suspended the production of powdered milk, leaving parents in despair, just when their babies cannot wait because for newborns every minute counts.
And while Mayor Eric Adams declared an emergency to control speculators, Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture, clarified that the first to receive the milk would be the hospitals, medical centers and pharmacies, prolonging the anguish of those who seek the jars in stores or supermarkets.
In the future, Biden signed an executive order seeking to end dependency, and perhaps it will serve to overcome problems in other sectors and reactivate local production, generating employment, but that will take a long time and that is a time that children do not have, while the elections seem to be here, just around the corner.
Sofía Villa is the author and writes this column in her personal capacity. She works as a Producer Writer at Univision NY and her opinions do not represent Televisa Univision Communications Inc.
2022