[NewRomeTacitus]

The overuse of antibiotics for viral infections may literally be the death of us all. We get more than enough of those through ingesting processed meats. Then there's the increased lead levels, lowered atmospheric oxygen, the unknowable effects of man-made molecules, the erosion of our shielding ionosphere by accumulated chlorofluorocarbons, imbalances in the oceans' phytoplankton...

We can (and should) be as careful as possible but the problems and worries surrounding us can easily rob us of the joy of living if we let them. Yes, we're doomed - we're all going to die sooner or later. The latest research finds our existence here as beings able to ponder these things to be improbable to the extreme. Still, scientists over the last generation have been shocked to find living organisms thriving at astonishing scales of temperature, vast depths and in rocks hundreds of millions of years old.

I look at our existence as the wonder that it is and thank whatever made that possible (after the aspirin, vitamins, soak and coffee, of course).

Time is our most precious commodity. I'm not going to spend too much of it worrying.

[jb6]

Anti-biotics do absolutely nothing against viruses, they're against bacteria.