I just realized no one really talks about antibiotic resistance, at least not on the same scale people talk about climate change/pollution, even though it is equally as dangerous to us. What's up with that?

>>15368300 (OP)

I, for one, welcome our new bacterial and viral overlords.

>>15368300 (OP)

negative impact on drug sales for regime aligned pharmaceutical manufacturers

>>15368300 (OP)

It's literally OK because it weeds weaker immune systems out of the gene pool. Also. it's not like it makes bacteria more pathogenic, just harder to treat.

>>15368300 (OP)

Not really

It's bad, but there are ways to deal with it and the infections will lose the resistance to antibiotics if they are not used at a certain point I think.

So we will just kinda have to cycle through them every 70-100 years ideally

>>15368300 (OP)

>equally

climate change isn't dangerous, especially not compared to antibiotic resistance

>>15368300 (OP)

it's racist to talk about this issue because it's primarily an issue due to places like India and Africa, where NGOs toss antibiotics around by the truckload and nobody ever finishes the prescribed dose.

>>15368300 (OP)

Related reading: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)02724-0/fulltext



African and India have VERY poor sanitation standards, so infections are common. To counter this they hand out antibiotics like candy, particularly the first line antibiotics. Furthermore people there stop taking the antibiotics when symptoms subside, but when they still have a latent infection. This creates a strong selective pressure for antibiotic resistance. This lancet article asserts that the solution is LESS antibiotics for South Asia (aka India) and more second and third line antibiotics for Africa. In reality, the only solution is to clean these parts of the world up, tell them to stop willfully living in squalor and to clean up their own communities. There's no reason people in India can't shit in an outdoor latrine, a ditch dug into the ground, instead of in the street. Poverty isn't the problem, any tribe of primitive can dig a ditch latrine. They have a cultural problem, they don't value cleanliness. Particular in India, people there value "spiritual" cleanliness but not ACTUAL cleanliness.

are you trying to say that the whites with savior complexes like bill gates who give away the drugs are fundamentally low iq on a genetic basis? that does seem fairly racist to me, how do you account for all the whites who don't give a damn about the fate of shitskins on the other side of the planet?

If you're confused by what I said, try reading it again.

>>15368300 (OP)

Bacteria can be killed in millions of ways. By the time bacteria evolve resistance to all our current antibiotics at once, we'll probably be able to kill bacteria with something strain-agnostic like electromagnetic fields or nanobots

>>15368300 (OP)

Because there's no money to be made in it.
