You're thinking on too small of a scale. I'm talking about the ecosystem of viruses in circulation.
If you don't understand how immunization puts evolutionary pressure on viruses then frankly we can't have a conversation because you don't have the foundational understanding to follow what I'm saying.
We certainly shouldn't use them as often as we do.
As I see it, doses of antibiotics should be as tightly controlled as radiotherapy. Nobody should be ALLOWED to take antibiotics home. Nobody should be trusted with them outside of a controlled environment where dosage plans are strictly enforced.
The way society demands instant relief for everything, leading to inappropriate and excessive antibiotic prescribing, is criminal.
The other inconvenient fact is that no new antibiotics for community use have been developed since the 1970s and there isn't really anything revolutionary in the pipeline.
So there is very likely nothing coming to save us once our 50+ year old tricks stop working.
I'm more familiar with what happened with glyphosate resistance.
Farmers get clever and think they can go for a 100% kill and then a year or two later the shit stops working because there's no reservoir of non-immunity.
I've been polite and tried to avoid going straight to the Logan's Run argument, but you haven't let up. Frankly, viruses that single out the old and infirm are a good thing. Your perception of the cost being marginal ignores the significant cost the elderly and infirm take on the economy and society by merely existing.
You're thinking on too small of a scale. I'm talking about the ecosystem of viruses in circulation.
If you don't understand how immunization puts evolutionary pressure on viruses then frankly we can't have a conversation because you don't have the foundational understanding to follow what I'm saying.
We certainly shouldn't use them as often as we do.
As I see it, doses of antibiotics should be as tightly controlled as radiotherapy. Nobody should be ALLOWED to take antibiotics home. Nobody should be trusted with them outside of a controlled environment where dosage plans are strictly enforced.
The way society demands instant relief for everything, leading to inappropriate and excessive antibiotic prescribing, is criminal.
The other inconvenient fact is that no new antibiotics for community use have been developed since the 1970s and there isn't really anything revolutionary in the pipeline.
So there is very likely nothing coming to save us once our 50+ year old tricks stop working.
I'm more familiar with what happened with glyphosate resistance.
Farmers get clever and think they can go for a 100% kill and then a year or two later the shit stops working because there's no reservoir of non-immunity.
I've been polite and tried to avoid going straight to the Logan's Run argument, but you haven't let up. Frankly, viruses that single out the old and infirm are a good thing. Your perception of the cost being marginal ignores the significant cost the elderly and infirm take on the economy and society by merely existing.