[redgolum]

I’m worried about herbicide resistant weeds.

We killed off all the non resistant strains, and the stuff that remains is hard to kill. We have automated so much that there are few who remember the old ways, and the equipment doesn’t support it.

When one man on a farm is no longer able to feed thousands, you will see some very interesting times.

We have been living in a Diamond age, and have squandered it.

[Gay State Conservative]

In many parts of the Third World one can buy antibiotics over the counter (no doctor's prescription needed) for pennies.Ignorant,illiterate people in these areas buy them thinking that they'll cure their headache,malaria,malnutrition,etc.Then some of these people (Mexicans,Indians,etc) make it to the civilized world and,viola!...antibiotic resistance.

[AppyPappy]

Someone will be along shortly to claim colloidal silver will save us from doom.

[txrefugee]

Thousands of lives will be saved as needless surgeries won’t be performed. Years ago, doctors went on strike. The mortality rate improved dramatically.

[arthurus]

America going to Single Payer makes that "post antibiotic apocalypse" inevitable. When the government has takes on all medical and "insurance" expenses then medical R&D has to compete with the military and vote purchase welfare spending for funding. Medical R&D will be low on the list. It does not buy and hold votes. If Medicine and Insurance were to be turned totally over to the Free Market we would not be talking about such an "apocalypse." There are projects working now that, if allowed to continue by the prospect of recouping the cost in the initial pricing, will shift the antibiotic paradigm to a new class of treatments that don't elicit mutations that render the new treatment progressively less effective.

Politicians cannot be worried about the end of antibiotics because that is something that won't happen This Year which is their max horizon for things that are not the primary ideological goal.

[BobL]

“Dame Sally Davies has issued a call to action urging global leaders to address the growing threat of resistance to antibiotics.”

“Dame” What are, back to the Stone Age or something? The ABUSE OF WOMEN in this story is FAR MORE SERIOUS than a microbe or two that fights back.

Horrible, I say just HORRIBLE.

(LOL)

[BobL]

Perhaps if we spent some effort to fight these microbes, rather than making football players run around in PINK, we might make some progress.

But microbes do not have a political constituency, so virtually nothing is getting done.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

“’Post-antibiotic apocalypse’ could make everyday procedures ‘risky’”

FYI they have been saying this for over 20 years now.

[tbw2]

We need to stop investing so much money into breast cancer and beauty products and develop new antibiotics.
Killing the sexual liberation spreading drug resistant STDs would also help.

[DariusBane]

Antibiotics are dangerous. They are dumped on livestock by the bucketfull, prophylactically. Until this practice is reduced I don’t know that it matters what happens in the human population.

[DariusBane]

Antibiotics are dangerous. They are dumped on livestock by the bucketfull, prophylactically. Until this practice is reduced I don’t know that it matters what happens in the human population.