18 May

Most of our antibiotics were found in the soil. There are potentially millions of other antibiotics sitting in the soil. We’ve had almost no luck isolating others. The reason teaches us a lot about ‘germs’ I think. The second you try to isolate one of these in a lab, it dies. Microbes live in communities, like we do. A virus that gets out of control, like SARS-Cov2, is exactly like a lone gunman, shut out of society. It’s a social thing.