we've had what...less than a century with modern day antibiotics.....
we've been spoiled....
just like deer in the woods when they get too plentiful their numbers are trimmed thru biological processes.....wolves or coyotes attack the fawns...diseases such as blue tongue or chronic wasting disease proliferate....
many millions of people that would have died due to their comorbidities. have been kept alive....
but we will return to the days that when you had a stroke at age 85,and get pneumonia, you might just not make it.
the antibiotics might be useless and viruses are not even affected by antibiotics...
that is really the biological norm.....
we should try to stay as healthy as possible so our bodies aren't opportunities for infection.
Yes, we live in a golden age, especially in the United States.
But even in China, for the last 30 years, they have never had it so good.
Most of the world is far better off than it was 75 years ago.
“but we will return to the days that when you had a stroke at age 85,and get pneumonia, you might just not make it.”
Worse than that. Through misuse of antibiotics we have created resistant germ strains and we are likely headed to a post-antibiotic future. Infections that have been curable no longer will be.