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It's not, actually. Minor scrapes could lead to death doesn't mean they always did. Same is true today. Most scrapes won't lead you to need antibiotics, but if

It's not, actually. Minor scrapes could lead to death doesn't mean they always did. Same is true today. Most scrapes won't lead you to need antibiotics, but if you start to get very ill after your scrape, you will get treated with antibiotics and live. 100 years ago you might have died - from cutting yourself while gardening, for example.

autokad 9y ago
thats exactly what i said, they could lead to death but they usually dont. Maybe I have to walk you through it: 1) its very rare a cut needs antibiotics 2) if an infection is severe from a 'minor scrape', the prior for it being something like MRSA is much higher 3) minor scrapes in the past also rarely needed antibiotics 4) rare stories of people dying from minor scrapes in the past might have been MRSA
- wayn3 9y ago
  1) is only right because we are vaccinated. 2) in 2017, yea. in the past, the prior for it being MRSA is essentially 0 3) thats because vaccination predates antibiotics 4) nope your statements amount to "i have no clue how evolution works". bacteria are single cell organisms that dont just suddenly exist into the world being resistant to antiobiotics, which were specifically developed to kill those organisms off.
  - autokad 9y ago
    vaccinations have nothing to do with the conversations about drug resistant bacteria. get that through your head, maybe even write it down and say it out loud. MRSA existed pre 2017, which it was in fact discovered in the early 1960s. While I understand that MRSA is probably emerged from antibiotic use, I am open minded enough to consider it could have predated modern use of antibiotics. bacteria in the world weren't suddenly under threat once antibiotics came along. they have been fighting the fight for 3 billion years. In fact, Penicillin is a natural occurrence used to fight bacteria before humans stumbled upon it. All of the ways our antibiotics are used to fight bacteria have been something bacteria have been dealing with since they existed.

autokad 9y ago

thats exactly what i said, they could lead to death but they usually dont. Maybe I have to walk you through it: 1) its very rare a cut needs antibiotics 2) if an infection is severe from a 'minor scrape', the prior for it being something like MRSA is much higher 3) minor scrapes in the past also rarely needed antibiotics 4) rare stories of people dying from minor scrapes in the past might have been MRSA

wayn3 9y ago
1) is only right because we are vaccinated. 2) in 2017, yea. in the past, the prior for it being MRSA is essentially 0 3) thats because vaccination predates antibiotics 4) nope your statements amount to "i have no clue how evolution works". bacteria are single cell organisms that dont just suddenly exist into the world being resistant to antiobiotics, which were specifically developed to kill those organisms off.
- autokad 9y ago
  vaccinations have nothing to do with the conversations about drug resistant bacteria. get that through your head, maybe even write it down and say it out loud. MRSA existed pre 2017, which it was in fact discovered in the early 1960s. While I understand that MRSA is probably emerged from antibiotic use, I am open minded enough to consider it could have predated modern use of antibiotics. bacteria in the world weren't suddenly under threat once antibiotics came along. they have been fighting the fight for 3 billion years. In fact, Penicillin is a natural occurrence used to fight bacteria before humans stumbled upon it. All of the ways our antibiotics are used to fight bacteria have been something bacteria have been dealing with since they existed.