Why Are Antibiotics And Vaccines Failing Us? [4K] | The Battle Against Superbugs | Spark

Antibiotics designed to save us from bacteria have turned them into our deadliest enemies. Is there a solution to this emerging threat?
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[@jamesbond1231]

Likely because we attempt to use them for things like the common cold, and minor infections...

[@lukexr125]

What about vaccines, no doctor will prescribe a vaccine for a cold

[@jamesbond1231]

@@lukexr125 except ... that's exactly what they have been doing for around 2 years with Covid (it's a coronavirus, that's a cold virus- with a miniscule mortality rate)

[@lukexr125]

@@jamesbond1231 agreed, but i'm not sure that would weaken a vaccines efficacy.

[@jamesbond1231]

@@lukexr125 then you don't understand basic immunology.

[@lukexr125]

@@jamesbond1231 actually that's the exact reason i don't think vaccines will lose efficacy. As it is the immunity that does the reacting, not the actual drug. If you knew how a vaccine works you would know that they cannot lose efficacy, only the bodies immunity can.

[@rabidbanshee]

This made me reflect on a couple of things, tuberculosis spreading through the Russian drug addict population and a USA Facebook friend who spoke of a very unpleasant STD which he had difficulty treating despite many different antibiotics. A resistant bug will hit us like covid, sooner or later.

[@Tina-mt9cl]

Except this* wasn't a natural occurrence, it wasn't even an accidental occurrence. This virus was manufactured specifically to spread human to human through the air. This specific lab spent years trying to create an airborne coronavirus. Then the world just had the random misfortune of an "accidental" lab leak. (The WHO and CDC tried to cover up and hide these facts). More than a little suspicious if you ask me, especially when you look at the only people who have benefitted from this event.

[@rabidbanshee]

@@Tina-mt9cl sounds like you've been spending time on Facebook. The lab did not spend years making airborne Corona. That is complete nonsense. Zero evidence, just fear mongering. Yes, who is benefitting? Look into the money thrown at coronaviris, especially in 2020 , look at who is selling fake cures. Don't be fooled Tina & don't hate the people trying to help keep the death toll down.

[@kzcars]

Antibiotic-resistant bugs are even worse than COVID-19.

[@annoythedonkey]

I survived vancomycin resistant staph it was pure hell and left my body in shambles

[@indy_go_blue6048]

Is this something new? I've been out of nursing for 20 years and we were concerned about drug-resistant bugs 30 years ago, thanks to over-prescribing and misuse of antibiotic. Stupid people/stupid doctors giving antibiotics for a common cold; people getting 7-10 days' worth of drugs stopping after 3-4 days because they "feel better" then saving the remainder for "the next time I get sick." I don't know how many people understand that resistance not only affects the survivors of a regimen, but they can also pass the resistant DNA on to other bacteria other than their "offspring."

[@TedApelt]

I think phages are definitely the way to go because if the bacteria become resistant to it, the phage itself can mutate into something that will overcome that resistance. Antibiotics that are just chemical compounds with no reproductive abilities (like penicillin) are unable to do that.

[@APZeus3]

I have a fair amount of medical knowledge and let me tell you this is Totally rubbish . This guy named Ted is making up stuff

[@pieterveenders9793]

@red rum He isn't. Yes, bacteria can develop resistance to phages, but considering there are many different ways bacteria can overcome antibiotics but only 1 or 2 to overcome phages the chance of it happening is already drastically lower. But much more importantly, phages are by definition harmless to humans and thus much easier to discover, produce and refine compared to new antibiotics. Many thousands of antibiotics have been discovered in the past 70 years, 75% of them from actinomycetes, but almost all of them never made it into actual medicine because they turned out to have to many risky side-effects. After all it's one thing whether a bacteria excretes a novel compound capable of killing known pathogenic bacteria, and an entirely different thing whether it can do that inside a human body without killing or seriously poisoning said human at the dose needed to kill the pathogens. Vancomycin and the streptomyces strain which produced it had been known for 60 years, which was when it was discovered in the jungle of Borneo, however at the time it's side-effects, many of them quite serious were considered unacceptable and thus it remained shelved until several decades later antibiotics resistance had grown to the point that Vancomycin's serious side-effects were being outweighed by the risk of dying from highly resistant strains of bacteria, and it was finally turned into a product and came on the market. On top of that, although several dozen different antibiotics exist, they're almost all part of just 7 or 8 different families of antibiotics that are based on the same chemical scaffolding with slightly different variations. Once a bacteria become resistant to a certain antibiotic they usually become resistant to all other antibiotics from that same family too. But no such thing would exist with phages, as they're all unique.

[@shanethecolloidalsilverman718]

Only thing with phages you have to seek out for the right phage but colloidal silver you just take it ozone therapies can be administered to anyone

[@snow8725]

This is why we need to put strong development into chemical nanotechnology. Not talking nanites here, but something relatively simple... Say you were to take an antibiotic, and then take silver, which has its own antimicrobial properties without modification, now, make a nanostructure that can attatch to the antibiotic... Now you not only combine their powers but you could, if done properly, give an antibiotic a spearhead to punch through the cellular walls of different bacteria. As we get better at this, we can engineer more complex nanochemical mechanisms for optimising human health. Much better and more realistic solution than nanobots. It's all just chemistry.

[@chrispetersen4639]

End the practice of doctors being paid for prescribing to patients, and you eliminate the problem (if it isnt to late).

[@richardg8651]

Yes it's a long video but this is a complicated subject . Well done .

[@Davido50]

Indeed.

[@La_Space]

Outstanding documentary by our Aussies. 🙏👏👏👏👏

[@harrietharlow9929]

I've been worried for over 30 years, ever since reading "When Antibiotics Fail" and The Coming Plague". The sad, yet maddening thing is that antibiotic resistance was known as far back as 1940 when a strain of E. coli was found to be able to inactivate penicillin by producing Penicillinase. That was over 80 years ago!

[@Clip_It1]

Another amazing video!

[@AnkleDan]

Our immune system will take care of it but... the immune system has an limit.

[@Follow.Jesus.Christ]

Our immune system stands no chance on its own against many diseases including superbugs

[@eileenowen8749]

It's all about the money. Doctors prescribe the stuff for anything, and everything. Something they are told to do by big pharma.

[@firstnationgamez8674]

Burning down the Amazon Rainforest does not make sense given the fact answers to our medicinal issues lay there.

[@someguy2135]

One more reason each of us should boycott animal products! "While the wildfires raging in the Amazon rainforest may constitute an “international crisis,” they are hardly an accident. The vast majority of the fires have been set by loggers and ranchers to clear land for cattle. The practice is on the rise, encouraged by Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s populist pro-business president, who is backed by the country’s so-called “beef caucus.” While this may be business as usual for Brazil’s beef farmers, the rest of the world is looking on in horror. So, for those wondering how they could help save the rainforest, known as “the planet’s lungs” for producing about 20% of the world’s oxygen, the answer may be simple. Eat less meat."- CNN Another reason they burn the Amazon is to grow soy. "More than three-quarters (77%) of global soy is fed to livestock for meat and dairy production. Most of the rest is used for biofuels, industry or vegetable oils. Just 7% of soy is used directly for human food products such as tofu, soy milk, edamame beans, and tempeh." -Our World in Data

[@pieterveenders9793]

@@someguy2135 You realise that much of the worlds' soy is also grown there, right? That's precisely the reason why they burn down those rainforests to begin with, to produce land to grow valuable crops on, such as sugarcane for ethanol and soy for vegetarian/vegan food.

[@someguy2135]

@@pieterveenders9793 Since less than 7% of soy is used directly for human consumption, burning the Amazon to grow soy is absurd. Ending animal ag would reduce demand for soy by 93%! Switching to a fully plant based food system would save 75% of the land now used for food production! "Roughly half of the data are from before 2010, for instance. But the study gives a sense of what land use could look like, if diets changed radically. If everyone were vegan, agriculture would need just a quarter of the land it uses today. Even a diet avoiding only meat from cattle and sheep would cut land use in half."-The Economist Jan 28, 2022 Title & subtitle- "If everyone were vegan, only a quarter of current farmland would be needed Most is currently used to grow plants to feed animals"

[@pauldusa]

the mess came from chicken, animal growers using antibiotics to grow bigger chickens, ect for decades

[@katiekane5247]

I've been at battle with a Pseudomonas sinus infection for many years. I've had surgeries & months of IV antibiotics via a PICC line. The organism develops resistances to even 3rd gen drugs within weeks. Wish someone would offer a cure for this.

[@geezzzwdf]

The answer is and always Ben in the microniom of the dirt we grow our food in.aswell as our own microniom in our own guts... That's Mother teachings.

[@saneeshmooliyil]

True.

[@chrisfisher1695]

I think the biggest problem is all the antibiotics in our meat. From raising live stock and chickens etc

[@salsa564]

Exactly and no one talks about it

[@janiceperkins4340]

In the US, it's illegal to use antibiotics in Chickens and Turkeys, Always has been. That's why the tv commercials saying "our poultry is 100% Antibiotic Free.." Well, No 💩

[@chrisfisher1695]

@@janiceperkins4340 They have forever. I don't know where you get that at. I watched a documentary showing where they were using five different antibiotics just on chickens. Plus you can also google that that too

[@janiceperkins4340]

@@chrisfisher1695 USDA website

[@cheryljoseph787]

That's exactly what it is.!!!!. Big time!!!!.. Thank you for your comment!!

[@amandajones661]

When I had my appendix out, I was half asleep and noticed the housekeeping lady used the same cleaning rag in the bathroom and then in my room!!! I immediately had my ex husband bring my iwn cleaning supplies and I cleaned my own room while waking around with an IV. No way was I going to die in their damn hospital due to germs.

[@Dino_Hunter_420]

Zebra fish can repair its spine and heart damage 👀

[@sotecluxan4221]

Antibiotics saved my life.

[@SuperGuanine]

Me too.

[@shanethecolloidalsilverman718]

Anthrax can be killed with colloidal silver too it can break anthraxes hard shell

[@hectorheslop9397]

Dear I say, a world-wide collaboration through-out the international medical research fraternity, to isolate and store several different strains or types of bacterial phages, capable of destroying a particular antibiotic resistant pathogen or groups of pathogens ,

[@raulbeienheimer]

Why are you applying filters to the faces of the people appearing in the documentary??? Lol

[@vangogh2486]

WOW the animation

[@walungamaandrewkiyingi3780]

Susceptibility of the bug to the drug before it's issued is the best way forward for current drugs in use, then more investment in new therapies has to be boosted

[@maheshpatel3738]

Very good

[@kellymcconnell8918]

I think we need to approach this at a whole day for angle with natural Herbs plantsthat you could go find in your backyard

[@echofoxtrot2.051]

They aren't. They're doing what they're meant to do. Harm reduction. It never specified how much "harm reduction" they'd settle for.

[@mrpad0]

Lots of useful information on antibiotic resistant bacteria - and that was helpful and well presented. Vaccinations? Not so much. There is much to be put out there about their benefits but also their drawbacks also. I half really think this presentation was good!

[@davel9514]

Except vaccines teach your immune system to help fight off illness, which he kinda addressed in this documentary, though not in those exact words

[@bradgrier4228]

First doctor sounds like she is asking a question EVERYTIME she speaks?

[@Alwyn_Nito]

because we couldn't isolate as a whole planet to starve it in the first place, alot of different conditions, if we can't rid/protect ourselves as a whole, it'll just keep adapting and circulating, and this may be the intended purpose if it was experimented with, at least for a start. If this keeps going, covid might literally own us all and animals, hopefully it doesn't start affecting plants

[@peterashby-saracen3681]

An excellent and very relevant documentary. I hesitate to mention this particular aspect, however, as I realise that I may open myself up to criticism. As an experienced English teacher with a particular interest in pronunciation, it has to be said that Dr Cornelia Lansdorfer is difficult to listen to due to her rising inflexion at the end of each phrase. For many native English speakers, this does not sound natural or comfortable and may well detract from the contents. Before anybody criticises me, I do not mean to offend anybody by pointing this out and I am well aware that Dr Lansdorfer is not a native speaker of English. Nevertheless, in order to make such important material accesible to an international audience, clarity in presentation is a matter of importance. Please feel free to comment on what I have said but, please, understand that my criticism is intended to be constructive and therefore do not accuse me of any form of prejudice.

[@starcrib]

I was a also deflected by her important information, exactly because of her linguistic inflection. Oddly in old Hollywood when the change from silent films to speaking technology- many film stars employed voice coaches and studied everything from diction to accents. Rock Hudson had such a high voice that one of his biographers said he literally went to the berkshires for 30 days smoking like a fiendish dog- screaming like a wolf- and downing grain alcohol to augment and change his voice: it worked. The point being is that especially with people under 30 the voice patterns and speech inflections prevent them from high earning opportunities. I think your position is a true statement .

[@katiekane5247]

I felt the same. Often seen in her age group, it feels like a question rather than statement. Likely a cultural thing here though. My biggest complaint is the use of "no problem" instead of "thank you" in younger folks. As if doing your job IS a problem?

[@alittleofeverything4190]

I would say they aren't failing us. They save millions of lives every day, even today.

[@Djkahled9999]

they are using MRNA vaccines now which tells you the old way does not work

[@jamesbond1231]

Please provide the backup for your statement. Or... are you just parroting propaganda?

[@wendyeames5758]

as far as vaccines, just look at the red state)blue state statistics to see the covid vaccine helps prevent death & serious hospitalizations

[@spiritualopportunism4585]

fool, long term the super bugs will only become more resilient.

[@alittleofeverything4190]

@@spiritualopportunism4585 Of course they will. No one is denying that, but like I said, antibiotics save millions of lives every day. It's an arms race. As antibiotics become more resistant, we will have to develop new ways to go about killing harmful bacteria, and we are.

[@voltsp288]

Hello there

[@hindsight2022]

Obi wan ?

[@lindasapiecha2515]

👍😊

[@neeyku]

Can I do music for your documentaries?

[@APZeus3]

Don’t think they want hippie drug (pun intended) induced psychedelic music

[@BLacknesmonstaz]

Cats totally out of the bag and your still defending it?

[@mrc3014]

propaganda mate, not saying that it isnt grounded in reality but its just controling the narrative.

[@geezzzwdf]

Because glicosphate is killing what the mechanism from where we would get the immunity from" these super bugs"................

[@sharinaross1865]

Pretty obvious Obsession .

[@hindsight2022]

Hospitals need to be small clinics that only help a few people at a time . The super big hospitals are why we have these bugs . Too many sick people all crammed together .

[@hindsight2022]

Ive lived with a hernia for four year because im worried about getting something worse. From the hospital !

[@salsa564]

@@hindsight2022 Which country do you live in?

[@hindsight2022]

@@salsa564 the USA

[@salsa564]

@@hindsight2022 to each their own I suppose, I would definitely not risk the hernia getting worse. That can lead to esophageal cancer down the road.

[@janiceperkins4340]

@@hindsight2022 I've had 3 different surgeries plus an additional hospitalization in the past 2 1/2 years, no problems at all! The most efficient surgeries I've ever had!😀

[@markcostello4844]

Cause people take them all the time instead of depending on there immune system

[@anormos7270]

Well who brought them to use en masse in animal husbandry? Oh even in agriculture xD

[@snow8725]

Also, an alternative which you have to be careful with, is genetic engineering. The fact that phages already exist is wonderful, because we can in theory take them and modify their genetic code, if we can identify correctly the context and grammatical structure of their genetic language that determines what type of bacteria they are going to be targetted towards... Again, genetics is a language, so you need to understand the cultural context in which the language is applied, and its underlying grammatical structure. If you change part of a paragraph to have words which you think tell it to target a specific bacteria that changes the whole context and it may cease to make sense or create a pathway for mutations to occur that are unwanted and harmful. You could accidentally create the next supervirus that starts attacking humans. You could accidentally ruin a person's immune system and create disease... But if we can understand the language correctly and understand how changing the genes changes the meaning and the context of its genetic code, we can apply this to creating specifically targetted phages that can obliterate bacterial invaders and if you combine this with nanochemicals in a multi-targetted approach... You could entirely wipe out the entire colony of bacteria making sure any resistant mutations are taken care of. Just remember, combatting viruses is an entirely different matter and it's not quite as simple... So we do not want to be the cause of the next deadly epidemic in our effort to win against the bacteria.

[@pieterveenders9793]

Phages are by definition not a risk to humans because they target bacterial receptors and hijack bacterial enzymes and genetic mechanisms. Bacteria, being prokaryotes are fundamentally different from us humans and our eukaryotic cells, so we don't have to worry about phages mutating to suddenly ruin our immune system or even become pathogenic to us.

[@GEORGELEUNG-ci1bs]

WERE DOOMED

[@Georgiaandfriends906]

Antibiotics don’t work on viruses you need a antiviral drug for viruses or just let your immune system do its job

[@Quantum-1157]

Look at India for super bugs epicentre: when in the late 90s and early 2000s ‘outsorcing’ as a concept was at its peak, india started touting itself as the medical tourism capital of the world and tens of thousands of people in aggregate from uk, USA, Canada, Australia, etc went to India for cheaper and quality medical treatment and a large % came back with superbugs in their system from hospitals in india , food in India, etc. Conditions in India are ideal for bacteria and viruses to thrive: unhygienic, over crowded conditions, doctors prescribing antibiotics for everything, and large population.

[@DSM-vn7oq]

Foreign people just can't handle bacteria in their environment cus their bodies r used to bacteria-free environments, if u go to a village with dirty water, you'll see that a lot of villagers are resistant

[@Deepblue744]

I see “25” comments but only count 11. Hmmm 🧐🤨😒

[@realfoggy]

Sub threads, Does your band have any new albums coming out?

[@MarcelaElviraTimis]

Are you familiar with spam bots?

[@thepunadude]

YES. OR BETTER SAID ... THEY HAVE BOTH BEEN OVER ADMINISTERED/USED/PRESCRIBED

[@JanStrojil]

What? Vaccines can be overprescribed? How? Did the overuse of the smallpox vaccine cause a problem? (Yes it did, for smallpox)

[@GraveyardTricks]

TURN CAPS LOCK OFF!!

[@cherilynnfisher5658]

"Spark". Irony died! The dynamic duo will have the last word and the last laugh. --- Arkists

[@jamiearnott9669]

Excellent video and this helps me build a valuable post-industrial knowledge economy ;-) On a serious note superbugs are part of a package of the 4th industrial revolution scientific knowledge economy already built for the 21st century now. That's why during this COVID health crisis, I already had electronic antibiotics/biotechnology/bioengineering/ biomedical technology post-modern innovation ready to deal with it. Last salient point, my country spent the largest deficit in it's history, and can't I provide my own healthcare?

[@frtr9276]

What is this wordsalad ??? Are you ok ?

[@jamiearnott9669]

@@frtr9276 Wordsalad? Do you think I have schizophrenia or mental disorder? What is unintelligible about what I wrote and isn't this social media commentary and allowed? This is the world's largest social media and website, this isn't the Lancet or Nature. I can certainly back it up real life if that's what you mean? ;-)

[@tonyreznov2403]

... what?

[@irony4me]

Sentences flying hopelessly in circle looking for a meaning to land on….

[@chaddeez8446]

Yes you're schizophrenic but it's okay. Me too some what of a twat too.

[@michaelhoey9668]

i am having anti biotiv medication being delivered to me today and i am just now watching this video. how safe am i

[@damienwright2483]

Antibodics? Come on, it's not that hard to pronounce it properly!

[@duncanosborne8475]

keep away from doctors and hospitals

[@shiarafigoni1464]

They ruined my life

[@pieterveenders9793]

Yeah, next time I need a triple bypass I'd much rather go to the library, borrow"open heart surgery for dummies" and do it myself. Damn doctors and hospitals, who even needs them, right?

[@moceri55]

I am all for free market capitalism but drug companies don’t want to do research on a drug that you will only take for a week. They want drugs that you will be on for long periods of time. This is where government is essential. They are the ones who will do what’s best for its people (sometimes) and won’t mind spending billions on doing it.

[@abrarmir8384]

Background is really annoying.

[@farmerjohn6526]

We could let people die.

[@christoerien9618]

Amazing documentary... sadly wasted as the knowledge shown is far beyond those countries that should apply it... especially the part of how hospitals should be instead of ones where woman have to give birth on the floor cause there are no beds available...

[@victoriajaferian1740]

Fleming wasn’t the founder for penicillin it was founded 1ooo years ago by a Aba ali sina who was Persian who was the student of rumi who was a great philosopher and poet rumi is well known across the world

[@pieterveenders9793]

That's impossible, after all none of the techniques necessary to identify antibiotics, let alone manufacture them even existed 2 centuries ago, let alone 10 centuries back. In order to prove the existence of penicillin you already need agar plates with bacterial medium and a sterile work area, which didn't even exist a millennium ago.

[@DSM-vn7oq]

Bruh microscopes were made in 1500's which could only magnify up to 20x, to see penicillium and bacteria u need atleast 100x and for bacteria a 1000x, its impossible to extract, purify and use penicillin back then, they couldn't have even recognised the thing that created the antibiotic or what it killed

[@rabidbanshee]

Is it true that a patient in Japan with an aggressive drug-resistant infection was successfully treated with tea tree oil?

[@DSM-vn7oq]

No

[@LauraELaplace]

You people cant pick up trash . Ive been sick for along time , I will not die in a Hospital , on the street .

[@joshuazickler1355]

Maybe it's our science that should be left alone and they should stop messing with nature

[@aqrealestateking]

30k views???? There should be 7 billion views WAKE UP people

[@humanbeingscanb2evil]

Evolutionary pressure,good words now here is a question can we put evolutionary pressure on viruses that we vaccinate for? I know you can have wild polio outbreaks in /from the polio vaccinated ppl,,shedding or as with the COVID vaccines break through cases. If vaccines aren’t up to standard are we going to cause more problems?

[@Clip_It1]

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[@dylanyewchyn6851]

People upset about over population of earth. Allow these things to shave off the weak. Itll all be okay.

[@anastasiamartynova7838]

Go phages!!!

[@ayasreviewsandtoycolection7148]

Curious as to why we cured the HIV virus but have utterly FAILED at curing the HSV1 as well as the HSV2 viruses. I know that each virus and each subset have different spike proteins on the outside of their shells so to speak. Keep at it.

[@DSM-vn7oq]

When did we "cure" HIV? We only made ART(anti retroviral therapy) but it only slows down the infection and doesn't eradicate it

[@moceri55]

HIV has not been cured. They have found antiviral medications to get a person to undetectable on a test but the virus will always be in their system. If they stopped the antiviral medication the virus would then start to replicate itself the same way as when they person was first infected. They will be on those medications the rest of their life. There is no know cure for virus’s at this moment in history. We only know how to elevate the symptoms. The common cold and influenza are virus’s and we haven’t been able to cure tham. Only reduce the symptoms. That is why vaccines are so important. Even when our bodies learn to attack the said virus it will be in our systems for life. Take chicken pox for example, even though our body learns how to fight it in some people it rears its ugly head later in life as shingles. Any of us who have had chickenpox we are at risk for shingles later in life.

[@idratherfeedturtles]

Awesome for the Awareness. . 👍👍, 😏 Now Then , Which of those Cvd-19 boosters Did You get "(Almost to the point of , 🤔 , , Almost at gun point. ) "Most of Our Gov.'s Mandated What ? " This IS the Very Reason I Said 🖕 to "THIER" Mandates") Hmmmmm . Just Sayin. You WANT to change Your Life , Garlic, Ginger, and thier Associates ! ! As much as possible, You'll see. May YOU All find a Healthier "eating" path. 🙏🥑🥦🥕🌶️🍵☕🙏

[@janiceperkins4340]

Yeah, haven't had any 💩💉 ,and not going to!! Had Omicron in January, wasn't a Big Deal! Even at my age, with my health conditions!😀

[@davel9514]

@@janiceperkins4340 It was a big deal for 1 million Americans

[@davel9514]

Yeah, dude, garlic and ginger will save you from seatbelt mandates

[@janiceperkins4340]

@@davel9514 It would have been, Wait, did you miss it last month, when the cdc had to REVISE the number of deaths??????🤔 Many of us said that the numbers were inflated all along. If you're honest ,you can say that there is really No Excuse for that! Now, realizing how much lower the revised numbers are, how likely is it , that the numbers are even LOWER, and they just don't want to admit how LOW?? If you refuse to even consider or admit what they have admitted THEMSELVES, ...... Well, that just proves your Mushroom Mentality

[@davel9514]

@@janiceperkins4340 So they overcounted by 72,000 - it was human error (and no, I'm not going to twitter to get my news)

[@salsa564]

The good news is it’s 2022, and we have artificial intelligence to help us produce new antibiotics and new treatments for diseases. This decade we’re going to figure out a ton of stuff, technologically, medically, etc.

[@ranekeisenkralle8265]

Believe that if you feel comfortable with it. I for one have but one question: What do you think is the bigger incentive for pharmaceutical companies: Creating a cure for a given disease and get a one-time paycheck per patient for it - or sticking with merely treating and alleviating symptoms in order to create lifelong dependencies on their products for consistent albeit slightly smaller paychecks?

[@salsa564]

@@ranekeisenkralle8265 That’s true, however you’re forgetting about the scientific community. You can’t keep things bottled up forever. Think about the COVID-19 vaccines for example: pharmaceuticals and therapeutics are better for making money but the pharmaceutical companies made the vaccines which have been fundamentally important in the pandemic.

[@jamesbond1231]

And if one variable is wrong....

[@ranekeisenkralle8265]

@@salsa564 It's nice to see some optimism these days. However, what you in turn are overlooking is, that unlike more commonly known vaccines, the Covid-19 "vaccine" only lessens the intensity of the symptoms. It does NOT provide immunity as vaccines used to do. Therefore it also falls under therapeutics only - and in doing so proves my point. And yes, I have indeed caught covid despite the so-called "vaccine" and am now struggling with the lingering after-effects of so-called "Long Covid" - something all too convenient for the pharmaceutical industry. Was that intentional on their part in order to create further dependdencies? Maybe. Or maybe not. i don't know. What i can say, however, is that it is mightily convenient for maximizing their profits - something I find despicable since it is playing with the lives and livelyhoods of millions of people to sate their greed. Don't get me wrong, the lessening of the symptoms is a boon - no question about that. However, it is not a vaccine in the sense that the word used to be used in.

[@jamesbond1231]

@@salsa564 imagine thinking a prophylactic with less than 1% absolute risk reduction for the average person could be deemed "fundamentally important"

[@UniversoAlquimia]

Use probiotic bacteria ando yeast as antimicrobian

[@janiceperkins4340]

Oh yes! I LOVE yeast infections! Those are my Favorite!🙄🥺

[@SuperGuanine]

@@janiceperkins4340 😉😉😉😉

[@adamrspears1981]

The constant stupid background music ruins this doc.

[@arahat.athersata]

Ozone Therapy

[@MegaDiddlemaus]

The world is polluted and various of deseases are amongst people

[@xodox1271]

Fear mongering

[@davel9514]

Thanks for letting us all know that you're scared

[@xodox1271]

@@davel9514 illiterate

[@davel9514]

@@xodox1271 I don't think you know the meaning of the word

[@xodox1271]

@@davel9514 confirmation

[@someguy2135]

Justified fear mongering.

[@larryfulkerson4505]

After the covid pandemic is over I'm going to continue to wear my mask so that nobody will think I'm a Republican.

[@MarcelaElviraTimis]

Mask at the first cough? I thought about it too.

[@katiekane5247]

Because oral thrush & bad breath is SO attractive 😂

[@someguy2135]

Maybe get a blue mask? Don't forget that other airborne diseases are still around, like flu. A mask couldn't hurt. Especially an N95 mask.

[@Acc0rd79]

Maybe because they didn't work in the beginning?

[@salsa564]

Are you being serious or sarcastic right now? Of course they worked. The fact that you’ve believe that they didn’t is ridiculous and based on no scientific evidence.

[@jimmycook872]

BS AGAIN and again.

[@salsa564]

Aren’t you smart lol

[@davel9514]

Not our fault you failed school

[@davidross5593]

I would say because we are not acknowledging Yahweh/Jehovah.

[@anthonysaffioti9048]

Lol they fail because they couldn’t work and should not have been authorised Geert was right

[@vesawuoristo4162]

The covid vaccines work very very well actually.

[@salsa564]

That’s a ridiculous statement