Renovating Society

As we have already established, the plan to just find a new drug to treat MDR-TB is not a convincing solution. Yet, this does not mean that the disease will continue to mutate until everyone in the entire world is hopeless. No, instead it just means that we need to find a different kind of solution.

Though there are surely many possible solutions, one that sounds particularly interesting would entail a broader outlook that those presently under consideration. If in fact, MDR-TB is viewed as just another form of a disease that mutated into a resistant strain, then we can look at MDR-TB and all the other diseases at the same time. The plan would need a total renovation of our society. We need to start looking at all the resistant forms of the disease with the acceptance that a Fix-All-Society is not the right answer.

We need to find out how we can live in a society with a little bit of bacteria. Bacteria are not always bad for society. In some cases they can actually be beneficial. If we let the weak survive, then the strong will not necessarily mutate so quickly. Then, just maybe, disease as we know it will not be as deadly. Then, we will not be worrying about the possible new deadly form of a disease. Instead, we will find other worries to occupy our mind.