>>26873088>In 25 years modern medicine is going to largely collapse as antibiotics become completely ineffective.I don't think you understand how antibiotic resistance works. Nor do I think you fully comprehend the implications of antibiotic resistance spreading. The problem isn't resistance, it's morons who take antibiotics for everything that causes older antibiotics to become worthless. We have many, many antibiotics that are still incredibly effective for diseases. Furthermore, with the exception of MRSA, your other antibiotic-resistant bugs aren't going to be hitting the average joe with a normal immune system. The people who get these strains without a doubt are immunocompromised or old as fuck, and most of them are acquired in the hospital itself. Fucking VRE is a UTI and the only way that it can spread throughout the populace is if you drink some 75 year old womans urine when she's in a hospital or if you have such shitty hygiene that you neglect to use gloves or follow basic isolation garbing protocols, get her urine on your hands, which is almost impossible considering she's likely got a Foley bag, and then dont wash your hands when leaving the room (which is a joint commission violation by the way), and then put your hands in your mouth.
MRSA is a bitch but you literally hit it with a barrage of at least vanco, linezolid, and bactrim which will fuck up your most severe infections.
Literally we'll be fine so long as we keep using broad-spectrum antibiotics in combination (that's the important part, to kill any cross-overs) and keep developing new antibiotics while practicing safe prescribing-habits.
99 times out of 100 you don't need fucking azithromycin or augmentin for your bronchitis. It's not strep-throat, it's a fucking virus. You dont use antibiotics for viruses.
