So, Nikol now has MRSA. This means “(Something) Resistant Staphylococcus (Something).” Which is the “superbug.” The strain of ordinary bacteria that a TV news piece comes out on once every few months, that you can get in the gym, that eats away your flesh until you die and normal antibiotics can’t do anything about it. This is the sort of thing that organic farming types are warning us will happen with all sorts of bacteria because we pump our livestock full of antibiotics constantly. The germs, for whom a generation is about three minutes long, are going to out-evolve drugs so fast that we will have created virulent megagerms that we can’t kill. Now we will again be vulnerable to bacterial infection, as we were through most of history and as we still are to viral infection. If you have a virus, they can’t do shit for you.
Well, this feels like a wash to me. 1,000,000 BC-1920whateverthefuck, whenever penicillin was invented: no cure for germs. 1920’s-2012: cure for some germs. 2012- on: no cure for germs. I mean, it was nice having that little vacation I guess but really, humanity survived eons without any protection from bacteria except our immune system; if it goes back to being that way it doesn’t seem like such a big deal.
