Neighbors and Friends in the Global villiage:


Interesting this thread is, we tend to ignore one of the key players in the
game: the microbes and pathogens themselves—-the little buggers we must
deal with.

In the discussion, we assume that the strength of mites, for example,
remains or will remain as a constant, a factor never evolving in the
struggle for existence while we are fuming with new-fangled treatments.
Hence, the naïve view that once we slaughter this particular beast of
mites, we do not have to worry about that sucker forever and ever.

Certain types of antibiotics for ear-infection, this is not even news
anymore, are now ineffective thanks to loving, caring parents.  Sure, the
trick remains we always stay one step ahead, but in the process, we have
helped and will further help to create, however inadvertently, small-cell
ineffective mites [regressed mites], FGMO-resistant mites, tobacco-smoking
mites, garlic-tolerant mites, Apistant-consuming mites, peppermint-chewing
mites, mites that will eat up hobbyists like breakfast, and other mighty
mites, whose hatching period is much shorter, like that of AHB—-because, it
appears, in the grand scheme of things, our existence is caught between the
stings.

Humdinger,
Another Insect-Brain