And then, in 2003, just when strange and frightening new viruses were crawling across the globe, the new fad of “antibacterial” cleaners reached its peak.
Humanity had just missed it. They were beginning to become concerned over genetically modified foodstuffs, and there was a whisper about just how much was being done to food animals.
But no one really stopped to think about antibacterial household cleaners. Not just dishsoap, but handsoap & bodywash. Antibacterial makeup remover and shave gel.
Stripped of every vestige of natural defense, the human body lost its ability to stave off common diseases.
What did them in, in the end, took just two generations. A variation of the common cold, mutated time and again by recycled air traveling back & forth over the Atlantic ocean, a thousand times a day.
Thats good and creepy adrian.
COMMENT:
I can’t believe I haven’t written about this yet! Amen brother. Good one.
As a kid I dug in the dirt, picked my nose and ate berries from the side of the road without washing them or my hands.
I went to public school and I can’t tell you if they had soap in the bathrooms.
If I dropped food on the ground I would pick it up, blow on it, and put it in my mouth.
I know that on more than one occasion I chewed someone elses gum.
My body was used to germs and I got a cold once a year. Not a coincedence. And if you care I have thrown up twice since I was 9 years old.
If you and your chillies don’t play ball you’ll be the hardy folk who do just fine. I guess your descendants would come from tough stock on the one side and potentially weaker stock on the other as they married people who used all the strong cleaners or came from generations who did. Does that make any sense?
I don’t think this would kill humanity though, because there will be pockets of people who don’t use the cleaners. Or are you saying that those that do use the cleaners could push the germs so far along that everyone would be toast? Yeah, cuz that would suck. :)
I’ve argued this point into the ground with people who just don’t get it. I should have yelled at a brick wall, for all the good it did.
[kicks dead horse]
:)
Yeah, the second one. We may be the stronger stock, but when the germs change…
the editor, of course. *grin*
heeeey. who edited my post so that it would show up?
cooolies! ty!