Antibiotics have saved many, many lives, and I'm really fucking glad they existed a few times personally.
A handful of vaccines are important, but many of them are dangerous (mainly because of the adjuvants used), and the ones that do not create immunity (e.g. influenza, COVID injections) should be illegal.
Doctors pumped so many antibiotic into my system as a kid, now I can't tolerate any of them. I had swelling of the brain from a trio of vaccines I was given....thanks modern medicine!/sarc I was sick for years and it damaged my heart. Fuck doctors.
Has your life been saved?
I don't know. I'm still alive and took antibiotics, which cleared up my infected tooth almost immediately.
I was also bitten by a tick in South America that I didn't notice until it was bloated with blood. A red ring developed around the bite days later. It went away with doxycycline. That was almost surely early lyme disease that I knocked out with doxy.
It's also cleared a few other nasty infections, especially sinus infections. Those were likely not fatal, but I'm glad I had antibiotics around.
I still have all the signs of life.
I breath, I have a heartbeat, I am warm to the touch.
But when I think, I don't think like a human would.
It is more like a reptile,
I need to eat. I need to find shelter. I need to bask in the Sun.
I exist, but for nothing at all.
I am here, because someone made me be here.
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