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Posted by: SpartanMk18
We are way to dependent on Antibiotics. We could seriously see a time when they become useless as bacteria and viruses evolve into a state where antibiotics have no effect.
we owe it to our species to not abuse vaccines and medicine.
Flu shots to me, are absolutely retarded. It's an easily combated virus and people still choose to get inoculated each year because the virus is ever evolving.
First of all, I'm guessing you've only ever had very mild cases of flu, if even that. Severe cases of flu can last for weeks and will keep you in bed, throwing up that entire time.
Second of all, vaccines and antibiotics are very different things. An antibiotic is usually some protein or compound that has some specific mechanism which the targeted organism can overcome through mutation. A vaccine is a dead or harmless version of some virus that allows your immune system to create antibodies for the virus while it is unable to do any real damage to you, so when you do get infected with the real virus, your body can just beat it down the old fashioned way. For vaccines, we just use the updated version of the virus, so its an entirely different matter than when we get organisms capable of resisting antibiotics.