Antibiotic apocalypse

>>7678233
>an apple a day...

>>7678233
Synthetic monoclonal antibodies.

>>7678233
Nukes.
lots of magical wonderful nukes.

any third world fucker who doesn't get their shots gets blasted from orbit.

>>7678233
There are new generations of antibiotics that can kill MRSA and other superbugs. They're in the clinical phases. Don't worry science is preparing for this. You should be worry about China and India dirty fucking cities which is a breeding ground for future epidemics.

We should kill everyone but europeans and japanese desu
All others are just worthless dead weight.

>>7678233
more worried about automization desu senpai.
we are at a point where even jobs like lawyers and doctors will soon start to feel the pressure of automized labor:
algorithms like "what tests to order when patient shows symptom x" aren't that comlicated, so in 10-20 years, your "siri 4.0" will order tests for you ==> less non-practical doctors (specialists still fine)

90% of lawyer work is sorting through documents, which can easily be done by machines ==> immense pressure soon

in warehouses with very heterogenous goods there are already warehouse-robots that do *all* the work. their warehouses will soon be visited by automated trucks, automated trains, automated planes.
economics degree? who the fuck cares when the only thing you objectively do is calculate half a dozen key indices and manually put numbers into 8th-grade-formulas? robots will soon be smart enough to know when to present what index, how to optimize your taxes, how to present your winnings etc.

we're looking at like 50% of all jobs here that could already be replaced with existing technology if we just focused on that task. shit is scary as fuck, and it doesn't even compare to sth. that can be fixed by going all asian and wearing a breathing mask when in public.

>>7678290
>tfw NZ

>>7678233
>cancer will be deadly again

Guess I better stay the fuck away from people with cancer, they could be carrying a resistant strain, and wouldn't want their disgusting plasmids getting in MY system.

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>>7678290
What about Eurasians?

There're a lot of major qts from western siberia.

>>7678295
>>tfw NZ
Don't worry, Kiwi and Ozzies are honorary Euros.
The white ones at least.

>>7678233
I don't know what to make of this. It is scary shit but so is every media health article ever. I bet they are sensationalizing this as usual. I hope so anyway.

>>7678233
>Cancer will be deadly again

Cancer isn't a disease you mongoloid.

>>7678233

bioengineered symbiosis

>>7678296
>>7680196
I think what he means is operations to remove cancer will be in greater jeopardy of infection

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>>7678287
>MRSA and other superbugs
bacteria are mutating faster and faster
th'apocalypse is at hand

I borrow this thread to ask something related to antibiotics. A friend of mine was constantly being prescribed some heavy stuff like doximycine for like two years and now has antibiotic diarrhoea. Does it pass or does he die shitting brown water?

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Antibiotics function by inhibiting some metabolic function in the bacteria. Bacteria take advantage of our metabolic pathways and byproducts. As you're probably aware, a big obstacle to using an antibiotic is that it has to leave the human largely unaffected - certain antibiotics can disrupt human metabolism as well.

What you're doing when you douse something in antibiotics is creating bacteria that use an ever stranger and larger kit to derive energy - which is what they're trying to do in your body. The bacterial enemy is constantly being kept on war-footing - any energy-intensive metabolic functions that would normally be gotten rid of have to be maintained to survive us. Ever stronger and bizarre antibiotics metaphorically give the bacteria strength training - maintaining the same old kit isn't enough, the only ones who survive are those who improve it constantly.

A better idea to start with is depriving the bacteria of what they lust for in your body - principally, they're there because something in you is tasty to them. Get rid of the food source, and the bacteria won't bother adapting to your body - there'll be better environments. Secondly, a small number of antibiotics should be used in random sequence and doses, at intervals which are random and vary considerably. The less regularity, the less likely any given bacterial culture will be able to thrive.

The thing is, humans are the toughest selective pressure life has ever faced. Electrical lines, pesticides, radiation, gun shots from tens or hundreds of meters away - anything that survives us is going to be smart and tough beyond imagination. Even humans are being forced to adapt to humans.

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>>7680311
what about nano-terminators ?

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>>7680316
Wait until i'm a machinegod to deploy them pls thx

>>7678257
This.

Also drugs of one class can be modified to be effective only against resistant bacteria. Eventually they will mutate again, but you can chase them around using this method; it's just a lot of work.

nuclear powered antibiotics motherfucker

>>7678290
> european weeaboo
>euroboo?

>>7678233
>Indians and chinese are mostly to blame for improper use and poor regulation
Not really, you are.
People overconsumming antibiotics, and feeding tons of them to cattle because it would somehow be less profitable to feed them actual food.

>antibiotics
>cancer

>>7681172
Perhaps it's really strong antibiotics, like 'bathtub filled with acid' kinda strong, and Op is vaguely aware of just how cancer he is.

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>>7678233
The power of nanobots will surely save us from this catastrophy!

>>7680266
His intestinal flora will return when he stops taking the antibiotic. Eat more fiber.

I'm surprised - even on /pol/ this thread managed to include the word bacteriophage by the 10th or so post.

You know though that by the time they become necessary the Russians will charge extortion prices.

>>7681192
We'll probably be engineering viruses to do tasks like murder bacteria before we have nanobots doing it.