And We're Surprised . . . WHY?

Breaking news! (Wonder how long it's been kept under wraps before the media finally got hold of it, and how the media managed to get hold of it in the first place).

WHAT'S IN YOUR WATER?

Why, drugs of course. Yet people act surprised! The public education system in this country has somehow managed to fail to instill basic biologic processes about the human body and the fact that WHAT YOU CONSUME COMES BACK OUT OF YOU IN ONE FORM OR ANOTHER, AND THEN WHERE DOES IT GO? Lesson 1: You take prescription medications for psychotic disorder (neuroleptics - powerful mind-altering drugs), or any drug for that matter, including antibiotics and hormones. Your body does not metabolize the entire dose and the remainder is eliminated from your body (#1 is always cited, but I have to believe #2 is also responsible). These remnants are not 100% cleaned from the end product, your drinking water, as noted in this article.

Naturally, the first thing that came to MY mind when catching this and seeing that antibiotics are being found in the drinking water was: Drug-resistant bacteria. Seriously, think about it. More and more people are taking more and more shit for more and more ailments (or filling prescriptions and not finishing them, which also contributes to the problem, and flushing them down the toilet to be released into the environment). Am I the only one who's noticed the aggressiveness and increase in incidence of, oh, let's say MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus)???

It's claimed that there are not enough data to make a determination about the long-term effects of traces of pharmaceuticals in our drinking water, but this isn't exactly rocket science. If "you are what you eat," then every time you chug down a glass of H2O full of sedatives, analgesics, anti-convulsant medications, anti-anxiety medications, antibiotics, and artificially produced hormones - the whole gamut of artificial, man-manufactured drugs - you're putting this shit into your body and even at low concentrations it has to have some effect, even on a cellular level.

This goes along with what I've tinkered with in my mind for ages: We're destroying ourselves as a species, in more ways than the obvious. We've implemented vaccines that, while they've saved lives, have allowed populations to explode where nature would have "culled the herd." We've introduced foreign substances into our bodies (drugs), leading to our loss of resistance to naturally occurring viral and bacterial species, which we then treat with MORE drugs. There are increases in disorders such as autism and autoimmune diseases and cancers. Maybe if we'd stop messing with Mother Nature, we wouldn't be in this boat.

Yes, it sounds cruel and heartless and I know I'm talking about human lives, but history has shown us that SHIT HAPPENS. As one example, think about the plague and it's long history in human society, the causes and effects - both positive and negative. Now we have modern plagues: Bird flu, AIDS, meningitis, MRSA, West Nile virus, and many others. It's only a matter of time before we vaccinate/medicate ourselves right out of existence.