From: hils@saynotospam.net   
      
   On 19/11/15 08:11, RS Wood wrote:   
   > Note to self: avoid serious infections.  Some day we'll look back at the   
   > past fifty years and say, 'it was nice while it lasted.'  Too bad these   
   > organisms can evolve faster than we can design new medicines, and our   
   > usage and application of things like antibiotics have led to faster   
   > evolutionary processes among these organisms.   
      
   It would be interesting to know the contribution of over-prescription of   
   human antibiotics quantified against the use of antibiotics in animal   
   husbandry. Here the media often mention the former, but rarely the   
   latter. Perhaps they are more worried about pissing off people who eat   
   factory-farmed meat than doing the same to family doctors and people   
   with genuine (but viral) illnesses.   
      
   > I find it a bit hard to weep for the human race though.  Since we're now   
   > entering the phase of 'resource wars' (hard to think what's going on in   
   > the Middle East is anything but), maybe a few million/billion human   
   > beings on earth isn't so bad.  Just hope I'm not one of the ones who   
   > gets felled by an infected wound.  On behalf of every other species on   
   > earth, "awww yeah!  Sweet!!"   
      
   It could be even better to engineer some way of sterilising everyone who   
   brings more offspring into the world than they (or anyone else) can   
   afford, preferably before they can do the damage. It's disappointing   
   that China has dropped its one-child policy, and even more disappointing   
   that others did not follow suit, even if it had been done in more subtle   
   ways. Would this discriminate against the usual (backward, primitive,   
   absolutist, supremacist) religions? You bet...   
      
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