What Will The Pharmageddon Look Like?

By ECro Posted on December 28, 2015 Posted in Chemicals Tagged with Chemicals, pharmageddon

I like a good old fashioned Armageddon like any good malcontent. But the type that really freaks me out? Pharmageddon.

I’ve written about stockpiling drugs in other blog posts. I’ve mused over the feasibility of our government having enough prescription … read more

Anti-vaxxers Still a Thing…

By ECro Posted on August 13, 2015 Posted in Chemicals Tagged with anti-vaxxers, fallacies, vaccines

That kid may grow up to hate his dad. But at least he won't have polio. Photo copyright Idaho Department of Health and Welfare.

Aren’t anti-vaxxers, like, so 2008?

I know they are still a loud, obstinate-in-the-face-of-overwhelming-evidence-to-the-contrary group. But anti-vaxxers must be a gaining adherents because a billboard campaign in my hometown has taken over the skylines above Boise buildings. Signs designate those who … read more

Should We Stockpile Medications?

By ECro Posted on August 7, 2015 Posted in Chemicals Tagged with Chemicals, medicine, National Strategic Stockpile, stockpiling drugs, survival

So much depends on those pills. *Copyright Erich Ferdinand.

The situation I describe in my first novel, Chemicals, is nothing short of a “pharmaceutical apocalypse.” Drug cartel terrorists hit Big Pharma where it hurts: their medicine production and storage sites. This is a total wiping out of medicine for

Chemicals Coming Soon!

By ECro Posted on September 24, 2014 Posted in Chemicals Tagged with Chemicals

Making my eyes pop, that there title on the screen.

Back in the long dark of autumn and winter of 2011, this writer started the first draft of a high-concept, dystopian novel entitled Chemicals.

While writing it, I listened to the EP Iron by Woodkid on repeat, ad nauseam, until … read more

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