14 May
2011
14 May
'11
4:51 a.m.
On 14 May 2011 04:26, Teo Zenios <teoz at neo.rr.com> wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Curt @ Atari Museum"
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Subject: Re: DEC, IBM, sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll
Suicide's your best bet, then.
No matter what the fundies say, evolution is a demonstrated fact, now,
and all manner of parasitic bacteria are cheerfully evolving
resistance to antibiotics. The USA is one of the most culpable parties
in this, as it is routine to feed antibiotics to farm animals over
there - including all the perfectly healthy ones - providing a vast
living reservoir for the bugs to live in while they evolve resistance
to drugs.
Soon enough - a human generation or so - we'll be right back to the
pre-WW2 situation, where most or all common bacterial infections are
essentially untreatable with medication.
It will be a shame - my life's been saved by them, for instance, and
I'm jolly grateful - but on the other hand, the human population is
grossly inflated now. We're at about 7 thousand million now, when
probably, to preserve the planetary ecosystem in reasonable shape, we
should be under one thousand million. A few epic mega-plagues would
help the numbers move in the right direction quite a lot.
Black Death 2, here we come!
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On the bright side, one of my antibiotics is
dicloxacillin, which is what
they treat for Lyme Disease, so looks like I'll never have to worry about
getting Lymes -- oh joy! :-/
You would need to step outside of the house into a wooded area and wait for
an infected tick to bite you to get Lyme disease, something few tech geeks
have to worry about. Yes, this is just a joke.
I looked up Bacterial Endocarditis (no idea what it was) and it does not
look like fun. I hope you get over it. Every time I go to the hospital to
visit somebody I wonder if I will snag some kind of untreatable super
bacterial bug that seems to live in hospitals these days. Doctors seem to go
nuts with antibiotics and new drugs are not a huge profit maker so few are
researching them. I would hate to go back to the pre Antibiotic era of the
1950's where common tasks like shaving could give you blood poisoning and
death.