This is pure bull.
The bugs have won?
The solution, of course, is to not allow the peasants to use antibiotics, so what’s the difference?
Actually, fecal pills will be the future....and, no, I am not kidding.
“Landing and moving about on the moon offers so many serious problems for
human beings that it may take science another 200 years to lick them.”
— Science Digest, 1948
“You’ll never make it — four groups are out.”
— Anonymous record company executive to the Beatles, 1962
“While theoretically and technically television may be feasible,
commercially and financially I consider it an impossibility, a development
of which we need waste little time dreaming.”
— Lee De Forest, 1926
“Television won’t matter in your lifetime or mine.”
— R.S. Lambert, Canadian Broadcaster, 1936
[Hey, give him credit: he was right!]
“The actual building of roads devoted to motor cars is not
for the near future, in spite of many rumours to that effect.”
— Harper’s Weekly, 1902
“The ordinary ‘horseless carriage’ is at present a luxury for the wealthy;
and although its price will probably fall in the future, it will never, of
course, come into as common use as the bicycle.”
— Literary Digest, 1899
“Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to
breathe, would die of asphyxia.”
— Dr. Dionysus Lardner, 1793-1859
“What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of
locomotives travelling twice the speed of stagecoaches?”
— Quarterly Review, 1825
“Railroad Carriages are pulled at the enormous speed of 15 mph by engines
which, in addition to endangering life and limb of passengers, roar and
snort their way through the countryside, setting fire to the crops,
scaring the livestock, and frightening women and children. The Almighty
certainly never intended that people should travel at such breakneck
speed.”
— Martin Van Buren
“Our future discoveries must be looked for in the sixth decimal place.”
— A. A. Michelson, 1894
[On the occasion of the dedication of a physics laboratory in Chicago,
noting that all the more important physical laws had been discovered]
“I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the
existence of atoms and other such dogmas.”
— Ernst Mach (1838-1916)
“Physics, as we know it, will be over in six months.” — Max Born, 1928
“Even originally well-defined pencils of cathode rays from the Sun cannot
reach the Earth. For Birkeland’s theories to be correct, the existance of
such cathode rays is clearly presupposed to be necessary...and this
assumption is untenable.”
— Arthur Schuster, on Kristian Birkeland’s theory of what causes
aurorae. The “cathode rays” are now called the solar wind.
“It seems as if we may also be forced to conclude that the supposed
connexion between magnetic storms and sun-spots is unreal, and that the
seeming agreement between periods has been a mere coincidence.”
— Lord Kelvin, 1892
“X-rays will prove to be a hoax.”
— Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895
“Radio has no future.”
— Lord Kelvin
“Heavier than air flying machines are impossible.”
— Lord Kelvin
“Flight by machines heavier than air is impractical and insignificant, if
not utterly impossible.”
— Simon Newcomb, Director, U.S. Naval Observatory, 1902
Sambucol, and Grapefruit seed extract internally, and Tea Tree oil in our cleaning products. No antibacterial soaps or cleaners in our house. We haven’t been sick in years.
I can imagine a number of scenarios in which a few billion people die. In some scenarios, this would be pure tragedy. In other scenarios, the Powers That Be might declare is “real unfortunate” *cough* *cough* *cough*
This reminds me of the Patent and Trademark Office declaring, maybe 100 years ago, that everything that was ever going to be invented had been invented...
BS. The vast majority of the time they still work just fine.
The guy here predicts disaster for humans, making this thread of interest to preppers. If a plague does occur, two things will happen.
Natural selection, which breeds resistant strains when antibiotics are over used, will insure that susceptible strains, expending fewer resources to maintain the resistance, will quickly outbreed and thereby displace the resistant strains, and the antibiotics will again become more generally effective.
A plague would also favor those in better health - those who have kept their bodies and immune systems in good shape through proper supplies of food, vitamins and clean water, i.e. preppers. Those who survive will also be selected for more competent inherent immune systems, which will be passed on to future generations.
If this man’s dire predictions come true, it may get ugly, but balance will be restored, and more especially for those prepared.
Should we believe them this time?
Antibiotics was always a footrace in the wrong direction. It killed the weaker critters and left the stronger ones to wreak havoc.
Lots of twists and turns to this.
To start with, the real problem is that people assumed that if you had an infection, you could just “turn it off” with antibiotics. While this is what happens in a Petri dish, the reality in many cases is that the antibiotic just reduces the degree of the infection long enough for the immune system to eliminate it.
Antibiotics are not the only thing that does this. Several ionic metals may not kill bacteria very much directly, but they inhibit the bacteria’s reproduction. Since most bacteria normally reproduce every half hour, this accomplishes the same goal of reducing the degree of the infection.
Hygiene does matter, as does having a healthy intestinal flora. Medicines that existed before antibiotics, like the sulfa drugs, still exist.
Some plants contain chemicals that make at risk cells too slippery for the bacteria to grab a hold of.
False claims to stop the manufacturing of antobiotics so they can finally have thier pandemic
Consider it population control just like banning DDT.
Phages reduce antibiotics to the cure of the last century.
An aspiring mass murderer.
Medicine + politics = politics
= CDC
But at least cattle ranchers and those who raise pigs and chickens on factory farms have their PROFITS! When their children or grandchildren die from an infection that could have been easily treated 5 years ago, at least they can say they made their PROFITS! Stinking bastards. Along with every hypochondriac who if they got a headache they ran to the doctor and demanded anti-biotics. Hell of a lot of people are going to have to needlessly suffer and die because of greed and stupidity.