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Re:Pangolins found to carry viruses related to Covid-19 by AlotOfReading on Thursday March 26, 2020 @12:30PM (#22695257)
I don't have a horse in this race either, but bacterial diseases are far more manageable than viral diseases from a public health perspective. The fact that you can get the former doesn't balance the latter, if pandemic risk is a policy consideration you want to have.
Re:Pangolins found to carry viruses related to Covid-19 by gamblor956 on Thursday March 26, 2020 @12:58PM (#22695530)
Except for the part where bacteria can evolve permanent resistances to antibacterial agents, and survive for weeks or months on surfaces, while viruses have a limited ability to adapt to antivirals and have a short and finite span of viability in the wild.
Re:Pangolins found to carry viruses related to Covid-19 by AlotOfReading on Friday March 27, 2020 @01:33AM (#22700639)
Antibiotic resistance has an energetic cost and generally gets selected against in the absence of agents. Bacteria are also much easier (and cheaper) to test for. Even if there was a hyperbug, you can afford to check everyone inside a half mile of the infected for relatively low cost.
Re:Pangolins found to carry viruses related to Covid-19 by CraigJPerry on Thursday March 26, 2020 @01:27PM (#22695834)
They won’t be if we keep pumping antibiotics into our food supply in the meantime