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This is likely to run into some hiccups.

When we exterminate species of animals, microbes that inhabit them jump species. It's how they survive.

One of the things that fosters antibiotic resistance is that bacteria mutate at a higher rate in hostile environments.

Different people with different genetics react differently to the same things.

I am not trying to rain on your parade. I'm trying to take you seriously and share my thoughts. I'm sure we all want a solution.

I think we need to up our game on other things. I don't know how to get traction on that. We already know a lot of things that help and we are just not doing a very good job of getting everyone to understand and comply.

If we did, people might dismiss the success as "luck" anyway. Humans have a terrible track record of not knowing how to count the disasters that didn't happen but should have.

Best of luck. I see in comments someone forwarded it to the Gates Foundation. I would be happy to learn I'm wrong and this works.



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