[selfhoster11]

China provably has seen issues with adulteration of food: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal

That is not to say that Hims's drugs were unsafe, or that they even came from China to begin with. What I am saying, is that it's not racism to mention that Chinese products are, in fact, occasionally shady (of poor quality).

[827a]

Sure; and a bunch of Phillips (a European company) CPAP machines (which had received full FDA clearance) killed over 500 people [1]. The J&J COVID vaccine gave over 100 people GBS [2]. We could go back to the 80s and pick on the Therac-25, which caused six incidents of severe radiation exposure or death [3]. And a thousand other examples in-between, of western made, FDA approved, vetted, and tested medicines or therapies that ended up killing people.

It would be stupid to believe that the FDA doesn't serve an important purpose. But, it would be equally daft to believe that even FDA-cleared products aren't, in fact, occasionally shady (of poor quality). It would be racist to believe that China is unique in the production of occasionally shady products; that the same things don't happen all the time in western manufacturing facilities.

[1] https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/recalled-philips-ventila...

[2] https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/covid-vaccine-guillain-bar...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25