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Prof John Crown wrote an article in Irish Independent, "We're the clear losers in the latest round of germ warfare" Please read this, it helps.
He writes "Future generations will laugh at the sheer arrogance and hubris that the medical profession exhibited with respect to infection in the 20th century.
Millions died due to Staphylococcus aureus infections in post war era and before Penicilline was invented in 1950s women feared childbirth because of the chance of dying of "puerperal sepsis". My generation were raised on stories of healthy young farmers who had pricked their finger on thorns, got "blood poisoning" and died.
Advances in public health, anti-sepsis, vaccination and antibiotics led to an apparent "conquest" of infection, and to the disappearance of some of the most dread diseases known. Soon medical students survived university, and maternal death in childbirth became mercifully rare. People could now elect to have sex or surgery without the fear of deadly consequences. Or could they?
Our apparent victory over the bugs was illusory, short-lived and ultimately pyrrhic.
He talks about the arrogance of doctors, I do agree becuase doctors forgot what their role in life is and talk about ethics when they need to use it for their advantage.
Tiny invisible thing you had to worry about was the Progressive Political party think again. Germs are everywhere, and an informed microbiological bookie would give huge odds that if only one of "us or them" survives, it won't be us.