OldCoal: Those antibiotics get into the eater’s system, knocking off weaker strains while letting resistant ones survive. A lot more of this process is carried out by doctors routinely giving a shot when the problem is viral rather than bacterial – there is a whopping markup in what they pay and what they charge for the shot. And from Jenner onward, I have yet to see a disease beat an immunization – that is a whole different category.
OldCoal: Those antibiotics get into the eater’s system, knocking off weaker strains while letting resistant ones survive. A lot more of this process is carried out by doctors routinely giving a shot when the problem is viral rather than bacterial – there is a whopping markup in what they pay and what they charge for the shot. And from Jenner onward, I have yet to see a disease beat an immunization – that is a whole different category.