the end is nigh!

As I sit in solitude enforced by H1N1, all I can think of is this episode of House M.D where Gregory House is ranting about medication and how it is used.


House: This is our fault. Doctors overprescribing antibiotics. Patients getting them over-the-counter. (sarcastically) Got a cold? Take some penicillin. Sniffles? No problem; have some azithromycin. Is that not working anymore? Well, try levaquin. [There are] Antibacterial soaps in every bathroom. They'll be adding vancomycin to the water supply soon. We bred these superbugs. They're our babies, and they're all grown up, and they've got body piercings and a lot of anger!

Every year, the attacks come; wave after incessant wave of mutant viruses. Probably, this is just the eco-system known as Earth defending itself from the largest and most deadly virus that has ever threatened to destroy it. The joke of course is that the virus is Humanity. Can we fight back the next wave? And the one after that? Is this doomed to be an eternal struggle or is this the precipice?