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A few years ago, I started looking online to fill in chapters of my family history that no one had ever spoken of.
Phillip Trotter's insight:
Maryn McKenna has consistenly written about the threat of increasing antibiotic resistance for some time and her articles in Wired and other media are worth finding and reading. This is her long form essay on medium, it covers some of the same ground as her other articles it is still very much but its worth reading and reflecting on. 
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"Superbug" bacterial infections that are resistant to common antibiotics are increasing at an alarming rate. But traditional antibiotics aren't the only way to battle dangerous germs. Biomedical scientists are investigating new additions to their arsenal.
Phillip Trotter's insight:
Given the WHO announcement that antibacterial resistance is now a global threat - article on popular mechanic outlines some of the alternate treatments to antibiotics.
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It seems that we are about to get closer to death, as our antibiotics, pesticides, herbicides and all other methods of cheating death, disease and crop failure fail.
This is before we get into conversations about the looming international and intranational conflicts that are simmering beneath the surface. At least these can be dealt with with sensible policy changes and changes in attitude, perspective and disposition, if not out right content in our leadership cadres.
But alas, I don't see that happening in the foreseeable future.
Time is ticking away.
And we too will go through an indiscriminate die off phase where friends and family will die off, along with enemies and pestilential people as well.
I'd like to think that we'd come off better than before.
But, that's the thing about these indiscriminate methods of killing large swaths of the population. It very rarely yields anything other than what was already present.
At least wages should be better, due to the new shortage of laborers (assuming that robots haven't taken over our labor force in the meantime).
I'd like to think that our lot is constantly improving, even during these negative phases.
But, I know that it's not going to be easy, especially for most of our Western and American population who don't have experience handling these kinds of things.
Ah well.
Think about it.