First World problems. :-/

Post #389,405 by Another Scott 5/13/14 6:00:23 AM Reply	First World problems. :-/ We know how to treat cholera and the like. MERS and SARS and H5N1 so forth are scary because our wonder drugs aren't terribly effective against them. A sign of things to come, perhaps? (Plus, it helps sell clicks.) Cheers, Scott.
Post #389,409 by folkert 5/13/14 7:19:09 AM Reply	Re: First World problems. :-/ Plus the anti-biotics research is spendy. They aren't "really" pursuing new Wonder Antibiotics... because "profit" It is amazing. -- greg@gregfolkert.net "No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." --Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Post #389,412 by a6l6e6x 5/13/14 9:00:40 AM Reply	Well, we're killing our support system with broad spectrum.. antibiotics http://thedailyshow....sts/martin-blaser and the book here: http://www.amazon.co...ing/dp/0805098100 Alex ÂThere is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.Â -- Isaac Asimov
Post #389,421 by folkert 5/13/14 10:57:53 AM Reply	My Doctor... My Doctor's kids play in the mud and ingest a lot of things accidentally. He lives on former "traditional" dairy farm land. The family finally sold it after they just could not compete with the big time/high scale commercial outfits. He said the earth/dirt smells almost wonderfully delicious. He said this "anti-microbial" trend/fad/tendency is going to collapse our society faster than any war will. It is coming. The assurance it is going to happen is approaching "1" in the future and probably much sooner than global warming will kill us. Unless we get/develop "Star Trek" type medications that target very specific things... we are indeed doomed. -- greg@gregfolkert.net "No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." --Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Post #389,433 by Ashton 5/14/14 3:38:11 AM Reply	Seems a pretty smart Dr. Those kids are bound to develop a much more ept immune system than those whose houses are hospital-disinfected. In days of yore, people working on farms ingested all sorts of 'pro-biotics' from soil unwrecked by seasons of chemicals. Pro-biotic hadn't even been coined. (I'm still benefiting from my experiment, done also before the meme spawned so much BS-grade stuff that now, it's nearing impossible to vet the sources/composition of most.) Vulture capitalism will do that, natch--ethics-free by-design. Nobody knows if we can un-wreck so much deadened-soil; add-to-long-list :-/ then burn it.

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