Correct me if I'm a brainlet, but even if every disease becomes immune to antibiotics, how does that make much more worse off than before the invention of antibiotics? I mean, it won't be very good and we'll be seeing a lot more plagues, sure, but it doesn't seem like it would be an apocalypse triggering event like some believe it would be.
Antibiotic Resistance
Cameron Green
Ethan Watson
Have you ever heard of the bulbonic plague, aka The Black Death?
Jose Flores
I already said it wouldn't be very good. The Black Death didn't wipe out the human race, which is what I'm mainly getting at.
Anthony Sullivan
It did do some serious damage, and population density has gotten higher since the advent of antibiotics, which will speed up the spread of communicable diseases.
Jaxon Ramirez
>The Black Death didn't wipe out the human race
yeah, it just killed more people than fucking WWII in an era without mass international and intercontinental transit
Ryder Stewart
Cuz now there's these things.
Any major deadly epidemic won't be confined geographically, perhaps only spread by a few rats on ships - it'll be spread throughout the world in short order.
Granted, this is mitigated to a degree by a better understanding of what we're dealing with, quarantines, and the like, but a deadly airborne pathogen could easily do to the world what the black plague did to Europe.
On the other hand, the black plague worked out pretty well for Europe, in the long run. All that death resulted in wealth redistribution and concentration that lead directly to the Renaissance, which lead to the Industrial Revolution, which lead to the Wright Brothers, and... Wait a sec.
Josiah Flores
The rise in population density is nothing compared to the rise in hygene standards and healthcare(not including antibiotics). Not to mention the fact that there has been less than a thousand reported cases outside of Africa, and the disease currently has a 10% mortality rate due to superior healthcare.
Isaiah Ortiz
>rise in hygene standards
is what makes people keel over from a roided up cold
Kevin Baker
The Ebola outbreak didn't leave Africa, despite the existence of planes. Granted, Ebola isn't airborne, while Yersina Pestis is, but as I said, it has a 10% death rate.
Liam Morgan
I don't understand what you're tring to say? Are you saying that people keel over from colds today? Because they don't, and even if they didn't that wouldn't disprove the claim that hydege standards have improved massively since The Black Death.