Are you ready for a world without antibiotics?
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I've not had to use antibiotics for anything so far, apart from the occasional cold (unless there aren't antibiotics in Paracetamol...), and helping get rid of my acne. So this doesn't affect me too much, there are bound to be other ways doctors will soon find for treating infections and whatnot.
Still, scary stuff for the short term, eh?
Still, scary stuff for the short term, eh?
This has been worrying me for years.
The prospect of living in a world where antibiotics no longer works is pretty scary.
Some countries have been limiting the use of antibiotics, to prevent or at least slow down resistant bugs.
But little does it help when the biggest Western nations hands out antibiotics for the smallest thing.
The prospect of living in a world where antibiotics no longer works is pretty scary.
Some countries have been limiting the use of antibiotics, to prevent or at least slow down resistant bugs.
But little does it help when the biggest Western nations hands out antibiotics for the smallest thing.
Ye Gads man. My brain has failed me.
So...many...words.
At least the article is easier to read.
Anyway, yeah. We're pretty fucked.
So...many...words.
At least the article is easier to read.
Anyway, yeah. We're pretty fucked.
That was the largest Wall I've had to scale for a very long time.
I don't use Antibiotics often, and when i do, it's usually just for the common cold.
I doubt that anti-biotics will go all together, and even if they did, it'd simply drive others to search for somethign else to counter illness/infection.
I don't use Antibiotics often, and when i do, it's usually just for the common cold.
I doubt that anti-biotics will go all together, and even if they did, it'd simply drive others to search for somethign else to counter illness/infection.
This is pretty scary stuff. But without the Cold War, we would be so far ahead! It's a little known fact that those pesky Ruskies were working on developing new bacteria to fight current. So instead of using antibiotics, itn would actually just be infecting a person with a new illness that has been geneticaly 'bred' to fight off this new disease. Yeah, all research into this was destroyed because they didn't want the Americans to find it and steal it from them, therefore gaining an advantage over them.
In Soviet Russia, bacteria heals you!
EDIT: It seems that in a world with limited anitbiotics, where every application of antibiotics could risk a new strain of resistant bacteria popping up, the best bet is for Euthonasia to become legal world wide. If people have a life threatening illness that is easily spread, it could be the safer option to kill them for the greater good.
In Soviet Russia, bacteria heals you!
EDIT: It seems that in a world with limited anitbiotics, where every application of antibiotics could risk a new strain of resistant bacteria popping up, the best bet is for Euthonasia to become legal world wide. If people have a life threatening illness that is easily spread, it could be the safer option to kill them for the greater good.
I would be more worried about this, but if bacteria are the great survivors, then humans are only one step below them on that chain.
Take away antibiotics and you will push scientists and doctors and all manner of people into doing the research. There would be some very hard years in which we wouldn't have the drugs, but we would find something. My greatest concern is actually that after they are discovered, unscrupulous businessmen would withold the life saving drugs so they could charge massive amounts of money for them.
Because we might find a way to cure all the world's diseases, but we can't find a way to cure human greed and malevolence.
Take away antibiotics and you will push scientists and doctors and all manner of people into doing the research. There would be some very hard years in which we wouldn't have the drugs, but we would find something. My greatest concern is actually that after they are discovered, unscrupulous businessmen would withold the life saving drugs so they could charge massive amounts of money for them.
Because we might find a way to cure all the world's diseases, but we can't find a way to cure human greed and malevolence.
I do realise, yes. Regardless, it's more the thought of it working for you than anything else; the Placebo Effect, really.verindae said:
I guess I see your point there but you'd be a lot better off with antihistamines or decongestants, they'll actually help with the symptoms and you're still taking something that gives the thought of working for you. To be honest even paracetamol would be better, there's no antibiotics in that eitherA Raging Emo said:
