It is becoming far, far more complicated to keep the immune-compromised individual alive.

C. auris is beyond scary. But the CDC will save us. Right.

I have always said that turning farming into a corporate paradigm would kill us because the profit motive would alter what we consider to be food. This is an international corporate dilemma, but I will bet the ranch that the corporate model has not a single corporation involved in trying to end the infection among human beings. Indeed, to pump up profits, what is Big Pharma doing. Let us be real. Big Pharma will sell us the cure.

We have created an industrialized way of life where we create our own demise and our own archetypes of who will survive – $ – and who won’t. Not unlike a fungus. America can’t even create sane health care.

We can’t even get informed. Homo sapiens is hardly the only species at risk. We could ask industrial farming to stop, but who is kidding who.

Our politics… 

 Please.

Maybe our species does not deserve to continue. Is this an example of an earth fighting back. Not necessarily in an overt way, but in a dialysis of living among microorganisms.

We depend on institutions. But those institutions are inherently connected to systems that worked in the past, but are now outdated. We update our computers but not our culture. We expect the profit motive (especially in hospitals) to drive efficacy to protect us. But like the institutions it funds, the rubber meets the road, and hospitals protect themselves. Public health and profit are bedfellows and strangers.

Perhaps we are the real infection.

http://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/health/drug-resistant-candida-auris.html?comments#permid=31417390