Let me clear something up. This is not a far off problem that will affect you great great great grand children. This is a problem that will affect us TOMORROW. It is a problem that already exists. Its is a problem that will only get worse. It is a problem that we can't ignore.
However, this issue is also preventable. it is not something that will require you to make life changes. little things, small enough to never notice. And yet, if everyone listens, if everyone tries, we can prevent a catastrophic outcome.
Today we grossly over use anti-biotics. We have them in Neosporin, in Hand Sanitizer, and in everyday medicine. The fact is, we don't NEED to smear antibiotics on a paper cut, or on our hands everyday, and we definitely don't need antibiotics for small sicknesses. The result of overusing these products is hard to see. But look at the label of HAnd Sanitizer. it says "kills 99.99% of germs." There will always be that 0.01% that will survive. And that small percentage will be resistant to the antibiotics. That small population will then multiply, meaning that the next time you use the Hand Sanitizer, it will have little to no effect. Everytime you use antibiotics needlessly, you create a population of bacteria that will be resistant, and this means that medicines will evetually not be strong enough. There have already been some medicines that had to be re-created because the bacteria that it was meant to be fighting became resistant. And, who is to blame? YOU. It is YOUR responsibility to spread the word, and to make the nessecary changes to ensure that there will still be medicine that works by the time you have children of your own. I am talking to this generation, and I am telling you that there needs to be a change.
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