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I feel that we shouldn't be focusing on a call to develop new antibiotics, that's completely misidentifying the problem. We didn't stop developing new antibiotics because we became complacent, it's because we hit diminishing returns and discovered that effective and safe antibiotic compounds are relatively rare in nature and incredibly hard to develop. The focus should be on a ground floor reforming of industrial agriculture, more focus on preventing contamination in hospitals, and a focus on only prescribing antibiotics to people when absolutely necessary. Barring another miracle discovery on the order of penicillin within a century of the last one, we're not going to be able to do much beyond limiting the creation and spread of resistant strains.
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Chard posted:oh wait no i meant the other thing. this was completely predictable and completely avoidable* tragedy of the common colds
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