Troika

[c9]

Knowing that many of my friends have different interests, I present several different items for comment:

1. This morning, when there's normally mindless pap, a local radio station accidentally allowed actual conversational debate to leak through: one DJ was defending his decision to never vaccinate his children, and the others were talking about how diseases used to wipe out thousands or millions every few decades, but vaccination has curbed this. His take was that "humans are the only species that does not allow nature to take its course," i.e. Darwinism. Thoughts?

2. The Pope has had a feeding tube inserted to help his caloric intake. a) would the reports have placed feeding tube in the headlines if Terry Schiavo hadn't taught us all the lingo? b) He is *so* not long for this world. Watch for the white smoke at the Vatican, kids.

3. Yesterday, school buses throughout large sections of Ontario north of London were delayed for two full hours. By fog. WTF?

Comments

[jpman.livejournal.com]

1. I rarely get vaccinated. Never get the flu shot, try to avoid these things when reasonable. I have an immune system that's meant to handle these things on it's own. Also, aren't vaccinations helping to create "super-bugs"?

2. a) Did feeding tubs lingo int he media start with her? I'm pretty sure there have been lots of high profule cases where that lingo has been used. b) in a related note, according to the author of Angels and Demons (not sure how reliable he is) no Pope in history has ever had an autopsy. I guess it makes them too human or something? I wonder what all these reports of PJPII will do for that angle?

3. Must've been bad fog.

[jamincan.livejournal.com]

My understanding is that the indiscriminate and inappropriate use of antibiotics (to treat a cold for example), is more of a problem.

[c9.livejournal.com]

Exactly -- inappropriate use of them (not finishing your prescription leaves some bugs in you to mutate), and overuse of them. Also, the antibacterial cleaning supplies everywhere you turn don't help either.

"Lysol kills 99.9% of bacteria" -- so what? They reproduce so fast they're all back STRONGER in only a few minutes!

[c9.livejournal.com]

Vaccinations can encourage mutation, because your immune system only creates an approximation of the anti-whosits. But as jamincan states, it's the incorrect use of antibiotics (and all the antibacterial shit everywhere these days) that's encouraging them more.