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.
The amount of North Americans who are dependent on sleeping pills is unfathomable.
There's clear guidance that sedative use for any more than a few days/few weeks more or less irrevocably harms the natural sleep-wake cycle and makes people permanently dependent on pills to sleep in any form, even with tolerance building and diminishing returns.
Most patients don't give a shit. They only can about getting to sleep tonight ASAP and don't see anything wrong with requiring a pill every night for decades, other than occasionally coming back demanding "something stronger" when it evitably stops 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.
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.
The amount of North Americans who are dependent on sleeping pills is unfathomable.
There's clear guidance that sedative use for any more than a few days/few weeks more or less irrevocably harms the natural sleep-wake cycle and makes people permanently dependent on pills to sleep in any form, even with tolerance building and diminishing returns.
Most patients don't give a shit. They only can about getting to sleep tonight ASAP and don't see anything wrong with requiring a pill every night for decades, other than occasionally coming back demanding "something stronger" when it evitably stops 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.