Re: ??

On Feb 7, 4:31 pm, "songbird" <songb...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Allison Turner- wrote:

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Too true.  And I wish people didn't think antibacterial soap was
a good thing in general.  The wide prevalence of it just dumps
more antibacterials into the environment, where they get diluted
down to the point that when bacteria encounter them, they (the
bacteria) are likely to develop a resistance to them.  Just what
we need.  Nature full of bacteria that are resistant to all of
our antibacterials.  Feh.

  yes.  in the end the arms race in progress will go to the trillions of
critters who can mutate faster than we can come up with defenses
against them.

  unfortunately, the worst to take the brunt of whatever outbreak it
will be those with already compromised or weakened immune systems.

  songbird

Riddle me this birdman. How many of your neighbors have died recently
from measles, scarlet fever, smallpox, diphtheria, tetanus, whooping
cough, typhoid, typhus, rubella or have been crippled by polio? Before
you answer this I want you to consider what your answer might have
been 60 years ago in the pre-immunization, pre-antibiotic and pre-
antimicrobial stone ages. All in all I think humans are winning the
microbe wars despite the alarmists of the popular psuedo-medical
press.

--
Brock

"Cartago Delenda Est"

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