Re:Universal vaccine against respiratory infections and alle...
by DrScientist on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @07:07AM
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> Evolution can't look into the future.
Sure. But yesterdays mistakes can be punished today. ie all evolution happens in retrospect - a mutation haopens - the world tells you after the fact whether that was good or bad. Evolution is hindsight in action. In hindsight - taking antibiotics everyday might have been a bad idea.
> Eh, the main downside in the short run is that you are killing your gut fauna.
Sure - thus increasing your chances for being colonised by an unfriendly and antibiotic resistent bug - which may result in your death - which in hindsight was obviously a bad idea....
Eh, the main downside in the short run is that you are killing your gut fauna.
> One of the risks of an always on response, is if something evolves to evade it - you have nowhere to go.
Evolution can't look into the future. (And eg bats are pretty much always on with their immune system.)