Re: Contagion
Greg, amen!
I havent seen the movie. But I dispise all those hand sanitizers you see everywhere now, they are going to end up making a real life epidemic with a bunch of people who have zero immune system from using them. They dont only kill bad antibodies but good ones too.
ETA, this has really been noticable in the beef industry. Everything used to be able to be doctored with Pen-g (pennicilian), then they came out with LA-200 (antibiotic), and it worked great for about 10-12 years, then started to lose its effectiveness. In the mid 90s they came out with a drug called Nu-flor, this stuff is expensive, like $25 a shot $400 per bottle expensive, while the other stuff was $30 or so stuff a bottle. Nu-flor worked and cured everything, pnemonia to scours to whatever else, cattle were sick, they got nu-flor they lived. Put it this way, for the first 10-12 years nuflor was on the market, not ONCE did anything I gave it to die. And we are talking a few times, that steers were death warmed over, hours from dead. They got nuflor, and lived everytime, no questions asked.
Well, in 08 I was taking care of about 2k heifers for a guy, and they came pretty sick, we were roping 20-30 heifers a day, everyday doctoring them. We were giving them Nu-flor and started to notice it hadnt worked like it had a few years ago. Then, we had two that were sick, not bad, but sick so we roped and gave them nu-flor, they ended up dieing. Now 5 years ago, they would have survived no questions asked.
Where I am going with this is, they are making all these hi powered sanitizers, anti biotics etc, and the germs/diseases are mutating. We see this in animals like I was explaining because their generations are so much shorter and condensed than ours, so what might take 100 years for us to notice a difference only takes 15-20 years in cattle to see a difference if that. The more hipowered anitbiotics they make, the more the germs are going to mutate and resist them. Creating super diseases (its being seen in the beef industry) that are a LOT tougher to cure. There fore, requiring a stronger more potent drug to kill them. Sooner or later, they arent going to be able to make a drug to kill the disease (ecspecially in the human world).
Drug companies make these new drugs/rat traps, and the rats only get smarter, making it necesarry to make new and improved rat traps (at a higher price). Its a vicious circle that is playing off of peoples fears of being sick, and to make companies boat loads of money off people who are to dumb to see what is going on.
Good Luck
