The only prudent thing to do is to nuke LA from orbit.
Nature really abhors homogeneity and will find every avenue to upset the system by introducing diverse elements to create a chaotic condition.
And how does one do this exactly?
Most likely, for five million years, humanity carried Polio with it. Nobody ever suffered from Polio. Why? Because every human, low borne or king, was exposed every day to human waste. Then, Polio appeared in Sweden. Why Sweden? Because Sweden was the first country on Earth with universal flush toilets. But it took twenty years, a full generation, before the cleanliness bomb detonated. Twenty years is how long it takes to raise a generation of people who had never been exposed to Polio. Polio followed the advent of universal flush toilets around the globe; by twenty years.
Now, you can find amazingly effective antibacterial wipes, gels and soap virtually everywhere. I’ve seen dispensers at the entrance of grocery stores. I’ve seen them in auto parts stores. Companies put them in hallways for employees. I fear they are another cleanliness bomb waiting to go off. Why? They kill 98% of the bacteria on your hands. The remaining 2% is immune to the most powerful antibacterial agent known.
Our hands are like your front yard. Kill one type of grass and weeds now have an opening to flourish. What monster is this OCD cleanliness compulsion breeding?
A different problem is: why are there no new antibiotics? Look no farther than our own regulatory and legal environment. The high cost and risk of both mean that only treatments get investment dollars; not cures.
I work in a hospital and at this point there is so much MRSA that we do not need any more bugs. This scares the SHIIITE out of us health care workers.
Colloidal Silver, and NO, you won’t turn blue.
Just a bit of science trivia for anyone interested: the bacteria was named when the investigating scientist accidentally inhaled it and spent the rest of the day bent over on his hands and knees puking with his CRacKuP.