You don't even understand how wrong you are.

There are hundreds of cases of "The Black Death" every year. They're treated. With antibiotics.

Pandemics occur nearly daily in today's world. You know why they don't reach historic pandemic levels? Oh, that's right, cures.

Like antibiotics.

So, if we go down the logic train, living in a preantibiotic society might, just MIGHT be a bad thing, no?

You keep trying to imply I dont think antibiotics should be regulated. Its pretty sad you arent capable of following a simple argument.

Pandemics occur daily... but they dont because cures. Yeah okay.

You realize bubonic plague still existed after the plagues and until we discovered antibiotics right? By your logic it should have wiped out humanity at this point.

Opuates have overarching effects that arent limited to the individual. You should do some research.

Not only should antibiotic use be massively more regulated, antibiotic resistance markers in transgenics crops need to be massively more regulated as well. We’re making monsters we can’t fight.

You aren't adding anything to the conversation. Although, I do want to point to the fact that while discussing antibiotics, you brought up smallpox. Um... Smallpox is a VIRUS. A VACCINE was created. The VACCINE was administered GLOBALLY. The last case of smallpox was in 1977. We ERADICATED this virus. Why would you include this in the conversation at all? Do you understand the difference between a virus and a bacteria?

Pandemic infections occur daily. These are infections that if allowed to spread will indeed infect millions of people, and in the modern world, potentially billions of people, nearly overnight. It doesn't happen. Why? Antibiotics. While you're correct that the black death existed between the great plagues and antibiotics, you're false in your assumptions. Active quarantine used to be a thing. As you say, "You should do some research."

Regarding "overarching effects" of opiates, nope. Not buying it. There is nothing worse regarding safely produced opiates than alcohol. It's merely just another prohibition. There's no society-destroying issue here. There's no mass death resulting from one person using an opiate and transmitting that opiate to everyone they come in contact with. Oranges and apples. As with any addiction, such as smoking, or drinking, or gambling, or too much time online, or too much time gaming, it can cause family issues, cost friendships, even cause a person to die. It's still self-harm. If you want to go with the "It will cause issue in the family unit" line of argument, that's outstanding. Let's go back to "Sex Ed" being all about abstinence until marriage. Because nothing causes friction in a family like pregnancy without marriage. Let's outlaw alcohol too, because we all know the amount of death, crime, and broken families that addiction causes. Oh, wait, we did, it didn't work.

I believe you think you have a point. I just can't figure out what that point is. The societal issue regarding overuse of antibiotics is abundantly clear. There is no societal issue regarding legalizing opiates. Those who want to use them are already using them. Insuring that the manufacture of the drugs is safe and regulated, and that those who purchase the drugs are of legal age should be of much higher concern than "But muh addicts!"

If you dont know why opiates are more dangerous than alcohol or tobacco them its an issue of ignorance. Id advise you to look at the ease of overdose and relative rates of addiction between them.

I didnt know we had vaccines to undiscovered viruses. Damn that must be what's preventing pandemic level spreading. By the way we still have quarantines in hospitals for certain diseases like sars that are highly infectious that we dont have cures for.

Your argument that infections would reach pandemic levels ignors the fact that there are far more infectious diseases that we dont have cures for.

This is a pattern ive noticed across several conversations, you actively avoid acknowledging things that conflict with your worldview.

I am very interested in why you continue to post well thought out and factually based things to all the lefty loons on this forum.

Biden’s exit from the primaries has begun whether he wants to or not

red underline = lol

Isnt it some sort of unspoken consensus in liberal circles that an old white man is not what they want in a candidate this time around, and that Beto is the only acceptable white male in their current field?

despite all that racism from the privileged lefty (D)s Biden is comfortably in the lead for the primaries as of right now, but the tabloids are on the case to make sure he goes away

They'll be coming for Sanders as well, sooner or later.