Re:Coronavirus may mean automation is coming sooner than we ...
by farseer on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @02:15PM
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The abuse of antibiotics leads to drug resistant bacteria not viruses. These superbugs pose a different sort of public health hazard than a flu like virus such as sarscov2. More like minor surgery leads to MRSA and death. Not to mention bacteria (even super resistant ones) don't have the airborne infectiousness to cause a pandemic in this day and age. Something like the bubonic plague can easily be controlled by basic hygienic practices.
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Re:Coronavirus may mean automation is coming sooner than we ...
by mschuster91 on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @02:25PM
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> Not to mention bacteria (even super resistant ones) don't have the airborne infectiousness to cause a pandemic in this day and age.
Not yet, that is the point. It is only a matter of time.
> Something like the bubonic plague can easily be controlled by basic hygienic practices.
Agreed, but we see with coronavirus how many people (sometimes intentionally) ignore them. Besides many places even in developed nations lack basic hygienic needs, such as prisons (see e.g. https://www.coe.int/t/dg3/health/Prisonsreport_en.asp), which leads to endemic tuberculosis outbreaks in prison inmates.