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Hortensis

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37. You and the others who feel this way have the ability to
Sun Apr 7, 2019, 05:12 PM
Apr 2019

rid the planet of the "plague" of yourselves any time you want. I can't help feeling that we would be the better without by leaving a more caring and generous human race. Of course, given that many who feel this way have already reproduced, the benefit in those cases would be less.

Or maybe this is just mean-spirited, negative noise? Do you even know that because we do have caring, generous people the infant and child mortality rates have plummeted in the last couple of decades, the numbers living in genuine abject poverty have plummeted, that the average lifespan across the planet has risen into the upper 70s? SEVENTIES!

C. auris has been identified, tracked, and fought by brave people, ones immune to the endemic whining and whimpering, for 10 years now. The news isn't that hospitals concerned about their bottom lines have kept it a secret, but that it's spreading and we still don't have a cure. Oh, of course, and that apparently that magic point at which the media start covering on the FRONT page and TV screen instead of in the health section, as it has been for a decade, has been reached. Again. This will probably pass like the last news breakout did.

Oh, btw, these are dreadful funguses, but C. auris currently tends to affect the very weak and ill, spreading in hospitals but not much through communities of healthy people. Whether that's reassuring or disappointing is up to the individual.

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Thanks for the heads up on this. SharonClark Apr 2019 #1
Hopefully it's only dangerous to humans. Coventina Apr 2019 #2
I kinda have this same attitude, gotta admit ... mr_lebowski Apr 2019 #15
I understand completely.. stillcool Apr 2019 #19
We've been devolving since mid 18th century. n/t defacto7 Apr 2019 #21
How ironic. A virus killing the planet's most dangerous virus. defacto7 Apr 2019 #22
You're among like-minded friends, Coventina. catbyte Apr 2019 #24
I have the same sagetea Apr 2019 #25
Life must Evolve to Not live off other life. MarcA Apr 2019 #27
Actually your post made me laugh. We need your kind to stay around. Maraya1969 Apr 2019 #33
You and the others who feel this way have the ability to Hortensis Apr 2019 #37
I've had the same thought about being "due" TexasBushwhacker Apr 2019 #38
Kick dalton99a Apr 2019 #3
Good read...scary though FirstLight Apr 2019 #4
That's a hair-raising article. We have been warned for decades... Hekate Apr 2019 #5
Great. ismnotwasm Apr 2019 #6
All Candida species suck. MineralMan Apr 2019 #9
It's a nasty fungal infection, for sure. MineralMan Apr 2019 #7
more and more people w impaired immune systems, tho. mopinko Apr 2019 #10
That's true, and more are coming. MineralMan Apr 2019 #12
i dont find that last sentence comforting. mopinko Apr 2019 #13
No, not comforting, but the human species gets along fine MineralMan Apr 2019 #14
she (not son) has had the joint pain for a long time. mopinko Apr 2019 #17
I'm betting you could find some information on the frequency MineralMan Apr 2019 #18
yes- the category of "shit i wish i didnt need to know" is yuuge. mopinko Apr 2019 #20
Those drug ads cost millions that could be better spent on education Doremus Apr 2019 #34
Nope. The ads drive demand, but pop med stuff isn't the MineralMan Apr 2019 #36
Where did anybody say anything about unscientific fads? Doremus Apr 2019 #39
This subthread was specifically about autoimmune disorders. MineralMan Apr 2019 #40
There is a lot of scientific research available on this subject. Doremus Apr 2019 #41
Wonderful Takket Apr 2019 #11
The world's climate, overall, has more moisture Ilsa Apr 2019 #8
Where is Bill Gates? watoos Apr 2019 #16
A few years back I posted that it will take a global epidemic to kill malaise Apr 2019 #23
As the human race runs at breakneck speed towards PatrickforO Apr 2019 #26
We are only beginning to understand fungal networks Ponietz Apr 2019 #28
Humans may not be the superior life form after all. n/t MarcA Apr 2019 #29
Hadn't heard of this before............ NNYCDN51 Apr 2019 #30
It is big news today, so it on all the news sources.. Don't do tv often so I don't know about them LiberalArkie Apr 2019 #32
K & R Duppers Apr 2019 #31
I am 75 years old and a printout of everything that is or was wrong with me Cold War Spook Apr 2019 #35
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