The estimated number of deaths in people with a resistant infection rose from 2,041 in 2023 to 2,379 in 2024, a 17% increase.
It should be illegal to get the majority of them without a prescription.
It is. It's also illegal to advertise prescription medicines. Sunak may have been pretty useless (someone needed to show him how to use contactless payment FFS), but being the child of two pharmacists seems to have paid off. Allowing pharmacists to prescribe medicines for a very small number of illnesses takes a little pressure off GPs. By "very small" I mean about half a dozen. Strep throat is one of them I think.
The most important practice we need to stop is giving it to livestock as a way to increase growth. If the animal has not been examined by a veterinary and given a prescription, it should be illegal to feed it an antibiotic. Currently it is possible to buy tons of food with antibiotics installed.
We don't feed animals with antibiotics in the UK, and you can't just buy them from a farm store without a prescription.
You're painting a target on your back.
And the delivery driver's.
Why would anyone store their primary banking credit card info on a hackable electronic device?
I said that's being alleged, not that it actually happens.
They're also putting news stories out that users of these so-called "dodgy boxes" are putting themselves at risk of having their bank details stolen. Legality aside this really does stink of desperation.
It's not just Amazon though. Most of the people I know with these things have the app installed on Nvidia shields and they're not using them to watch Prime content; mostly they have them to avoid the massive costs that Sky charge for sports coverage. The article linked above tries to downplay the savings as only about £13 a month. Sky TV alone can cost four times that for the Sports+Movie package.
Borg?! As if Elon is interested in creating the ultimate communist society..
No, be a good little drone and join the line for the Nerve Stapler.
Let me get this right.
App that circumvents gambling regulations,
Using crypto,
Gets manipulated by amateurs doing HFT?
Yeah, cry me a fucking river.
That was the official account belonging to the actual fucking White House.
Not just some fruitcake like MTG or Bobo, the people who are supposed to represent the entire US government. Let that sink in. The people that are supposed to be sober, truthful and respectful are quite literally shit-posting.
The Universe is populated by stable things. -- Richard Dawkins
