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To: brookwood

And the same argument can be made about antibiotics. If there were no antibiotics, there would be no antibiotic-resistant bacteria. So should we get rid of antibiotics?


14 posted on 08/09/2021 11:42:14 AM PDT by brookwood (Obama said you could keep your plan - Sanders says higher taxes will improve the weatheryour1ST)
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To: brookwood

And the same argument can be made about antibiotics. If there were no antibiotics, there would be no antibiotic-resistant bacteria. So should we get rid of antibiotics?

What we don’t do with antibiotics is proscribe them wildly for everything. Because the more you use a given antibiotic, the more likely a spontaneous mutation of a given bacteria will evade it.

That’s why hospitals, which tend to use a lot of antibiotics, is where you go to find the “best” (worst) infectious bacteria.

It’s also why we need to keep coming up with new antibiotics as we’re in an “arms” race with the ever more deadly forms of bacteria.


19 posted on 08/09/2021 12:11:51 PM PDT by Flick Lives (We may or may not have reached herd immunity, but we've definitely achieved herd stupidity.)
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To: brookwood

A ‘leaky’ vaccine will lead to vaccine resistant strains, which is what he has said many time. It’s basic evolutionary biology.


21 posted on 08/09/2021 12:45:49 PM PDT by tatown
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To: brookwood

They also invented various Tetracyclines to replace antibiotics, if the population was dosed so heavily back in the 50s and 60s.


26 posted on 08/09/2021 4:26:06 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit..)
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