Have we disinfected ourselves into NDM-1?

I think you are right. We have to somehow draw a fine line between being clean and becoming too preoccupied with killing every bug imaginable. As far as I know, when we are children our immune systems have to be exposed to certain degrees of dirt and germs in order to learn to resist bugs.

If we are over protected from normal play, which usually involves making mud pies and other delightful mucky pastimes, kids can grow up to be very unhealthy and catch everything going around. I once had two beautiful pedigree Siamese cats, when they were kittens, I kept them indoors because I didn't want to risk them getting run over on the busy road outside. We later cat-proofed the garden so they were able to go out, but as adult cats they were never very healthy and did not live to be very old.

I'm sure that this was what happened to them, their immune systems never developed properly. Maybe a return to using more traditional ways of cleaning might be better, vinegar and peroxide as disinfectants for example. Here in Spain, you cannot buy disinfectant in Spanish supermarkets, (yes, really, not in any I've seen) they use instead bleach and ammonia, I have to say I don't like the sound of ammonia, bleach is ok for the bathroom, but I wonder if their way is better?

I do believe that we had indeed worked our way into this one as well as tall the super bugs that have come before this latest version. I see so many people taking antibiotics for protection against bugs, and it builds up a tolerance so that antibiotic will not work to kill a germ within a body. The germs morph into something that will work around the tolerance and then things get bad.

The person with the tolerance gets very sick. Millions of Americans do this. When my youngest son was a baby and suffering from chronic asthma attacks, he was on a preventive antibiotic for three months, and when he got ill he would have to go on a stronger one.

He has a tolerance to many antibiotics because of that. Antibiotics are also used in the meat we consume so that means we are all ingesting these most days. That sets us up for the drug resistant super flu and MRSA.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.