Quote from Caulron;1276933:
The time of superbugs effectively crippling society is almost upon us. The best part, it was humans that have caused this. US! Just imagine a slow, painful death that grows and grows. There's nothing to do but wait for it.
There are new methods for drug development. And disinfectants always get rid of bacteria.
HUmans didn't "cause" the lethality of various pathogens anyway. They were either lehal before or they developed lethality due to unrelated causes.
The only mutation caused by human intervention are resistances to the mechanisms of action of the drugs that were developed.
In other words the only thing we did was upset the status quo in our favour before it return back to were it once was. We didn't make anything worse. And more importantly, it means we can still find other ways to fight them, they are not invincible. The term "superbug" is therefore really quite misleading.
"Bugs" crippled our society already before, all the time. Even if it came, which it won't because we will find other ways to combat them, it wouldn't be "the new age", it would just be a return to the historical standard, ecept slightly aleviated because we know about hygienic practise that hampers the epidemic potential of most contagious diseases.