[Vince Ferrer]

This is an issue which is a real danger. But not only does it mean we may be getting incurable infections from scratches and childhood injuries, it has a political component too. It is the apocolypse for progressivism. The sexual revolution rode a wave of antibiotic progress in sexually transmitted diseases. While activists and now historians throw around words like "patriarchy," "sexism", or "homophobia," they fail to explain that the traditional world existed the way it did for perfectly rational reasons. Some of those reasons were to avoid diseases. Now society has been rewritten because of these drugs, but they are losing effectiveness. This will cause us to reconsider our traditional morality if nature continues to win.

[Viennacon]

What an annoyance. And this time, its effects wont just be limited to drug users, sexual deviants, and unlucky blood transfusion recipients, etc.

[Southack]

Yawn...

Anyone alarmed by the failure of antibiotics simply isn’t educated on phages.

[Nowhere Man]

I remember this was first talked about in thr early 1970’s where if the overuse/misuse of antibiotics were not stopped, we could end up in such a crisis they are talking about now. We might have to return to using sulfa-drugs and other earlier means to control (or try to) infections. Back in 2003, my hand was infected with a bad case of strep as a result of a cut an they used a lot of superantibiotics on me, along with surgery, but I came close to losing my left hand or part of it.

[montag813]

I have told people for 20 years that anti-biotics should be controlled substances, like opiates, but stricter, with fines for non-completion of course, and prison sentences for improper disposal.

[poobear]

I’ve never abused antibiotics. Last year I acquired a rare staph infection after hip replacement and was put on a pic line of 5 infusions a day for six weeks. That chit killed everything, good and bad. I lost 25 lbs. With probiotics and healthy eating I got my strength back. Thank God! Antibiotics still work, for me.

[Danette]

What about colloidal silver as an antibiotic?

[noiseman]

This sounds like an awesome time to import millions more disease-riddled third worlders. /s

[The Right wing Infidel]

This is a real threat unlike the hyperbole that was the swine flu, from 1980 to 1984 16 new antibiotic drugs were made, from 2005-2007 only 2 new were made.