[A CA Guy]

I almost never used antibiotics, yet America and the whole world will be involved in a little population control because they have been overused and these viruses are mutating.

It's not a big deal, let's say half the world's population dies...so what?

First, we are all going to die.
Secondly, it makes more room for new people.

There have been things that have taken out large portions of populations historically, this is just another one.

The world (Minus some people) will go on.


But the real question is:
WHAT DID CLINTON/GORE KNOW AND WHEN DID THEY KNOW IT?

[gunnedah]

Yeh,but I dont want to take a chance on being one of the minuses,like I want to go to heaven but I dont want to die.
Maybe I should become a politician with all these selfish desires!

[Maceman]

It's not a big deal, let's say half the world's population dies...so what?

I can't believe you said this in response to the issue at hand. This is the kind of thing I expect to hear from misanthropic, DDT-hating, social engineering environmentalist whackos.

This is the kind of thing I'd expect to hear from a Stalinist sympathizer who thinks in terms of the masses and making omelets.

Hope nobody you love is in the half of the population that dies from resistent bacterial infections.

Conservatives and libertarians are supposed to value life. It's the liberals who have such a cavalier attitude about the deaths of huge numbers of people who happen to be on the wrong side of a Utopian vision.

I am appalled and embarrassed that a regular FRF poster would have such an attitude.

[Old Professer]

Bacteria, not viruses.

[Lord_Baltar]

Wow, great senitments...

"Those who would be like to die, let them, and decrease the surplus population"

Pardon me Ebenezer, but would you strike such a cavalier position if it was someone you did care for caught up in some sort of epidemic?

[not-an-ostrich]

Yes we're all gone to die but I hate it when it's the children. I noticed this article never mentioned all of us mothers who requested/expected antibiotics for our children cause we couldn't take them to daycare if they were running a fever. The high percentage of mothers working so we could have the luxury and entitlement items bear a portion of the blame. So does the meat production businesses for pumping up the use of antibiotics.

[Pirod]

Yes we're all going to die eventually... Try having your friend die from this "population control". Would you be able to tell his family his death was in the benefit of us all? I didn't even get to say goodbye...