Congratulations to Tresy for letting APUA do all the argumentation,
except for the personal insults that Tresy specializes in.    With one
glaring exception.

Tresy, ATB is a perfectly acceptable abbreviation for the
word-antibiotic- in medical circles.     Rest assured, Tresy.      I
didn't invent it.     You may use ATB without the marks "ATB".

Tresy appears to fully endorse the APUA approach, precisely because she
found "Not a whisper about overthrowing capitalism,  but some sensible
ideas...."

What Tresy missed, was the seemingly sensible nonsense.     This is the
calling card of the "scientific community" today in regards to dealing
with ecological issues of any sort.      But when it comes to medical
issues, doctors often outdo other "scientists" in myopic vision.

Let's examine one sentence of the first paragraph of the article that
Tresy picked.
The article is titled....Antibiotic Resistance, An Ecologocal
Imbalance.... by Stuart B. Levy, MD.    It is an otherwise leading edge
article in dealing with this issue, and it correctly identifies some
important aspects of the problem.

<Although some infections are caused by bacteria for which humans are a
specific host, IN MOST INSTANCES THE INFECTIONS FOLLOW ENTRY OF BACTERIA
INTO THE BODY BY CHANCE.>

Dr. Levy, this is not true.      By saying this falsehood, you have
locked out of consideration the principle avenues that could lead to
success in fighting infectious disease.     We must not resort to false
dependence on ATB as being the principle weapon against infectious
disease.

IN MOST INSTANCES, INFECTIONS FOLLOW ENTRY INTO THE BODY NOT BY CHANCE,
BUT BY DELIBERATE CAUSE.    Let's look at the rise in respiratory tract
cancers, Tresy and Dr. Levy.     It also answers the standard comment
about people living twice as long.       Twice as long does not mean
twice as good.

Before ATB use, people often died of pneumonia in their 30s and 40s.
Now, they live into their 70s and 80s.     But here's the catch,
infections follow entry more often into the body, because air
contaminants are considerably more common now, than in the time of
Charles Dicken's London.

Whereas people without ATB died quickly without treatment, now people
suffer repeated infecton from chronic respiratory ailments.      People
begin in their childhood to get what are called allergies and asthma,
but in fact are diseases of pollution that is not brought about by pure
chance.

It is not chance,  that today more people are smokers, or that internal
combustion is so common, or industrial pollution so wide spread.
Capitalism has created a permanent population of chronically ill people
that did not exist in previous times.

The capitalist medical community calls this advancement.       In
reality, increasing the number of chronically ill is making the health
of society increasingly unstable for all.

With each advance in the ability to "cure", has come  a corresponding
advance in societal irresponsibilty in acceptance of a more degraded and
dangerous environment.      The capitalist development of ATB, has
combined with advanced capitalist mass production techniques, to produce
smokers of 100+ cigarettes a day.     If these people die at 65, instead
of age 25, we can hardly call this an advance.

The reality is that people didn't smoke a fraction of what they do now,
even 100 years ago.      This is not double the health.      I key in on
smoking to illustrate the point, but there are many other similar
processes that have a cumulative effect.

Medicine has become an industry to produce a permanent and growing
number of chronically ill people.      Chronically ill people need ATBs
to stay alive.     A supposedly "scientific" medical community, that is
afraid often to even use the word EVOLUTION or advance a preventive
approach, is more of the same poison.     And a  "medicine" that won't
win the medical battles ahead.

Dr. Levy had no proposal that even begins to provide society a fighting
chance to gain better health ahead.

Tony Abdo