Honorable Judge, Bacteria Are Antibiotic Resistant Too!

By CPI (Mohammad Rafi)

03 March, 2016
Countercurrents.org

The Honorable High Court Judge who invoked the use of antibiotics to treat the 'infection' of anti-nationalism, while granting Kanhaiya Kumar bail, has obviously never heard of the growing global phenomenon of antibiotic resistance. The higher the dose, higher the resistance because bacteria are our planet's oldest and most important living organisms. They are not going to just curl up and die because we humans treat them as 'enemies'. Resistance is a fundamental characteristic of all forms of life and will always be.

The judgment reads:

The thoughts reflected in the slogans raised by some of the students of JNU who organized and participated in that programme cannot be claimed to be protected as fundamental right to freedom of speech and expression. I consider this as a kind of infection from which such students are suffering which needs to be controlled/cured before it becomes an epidemic.

Whenever some infection is spread in a limb, effort is made to cure the same by giving antibiotics orally and if that does not work, by following second line of treatment. Sometimes it may require surgical intervention also. However, if the infection results in infecting the limb to the extent that it becomes gangrene, amputation is the only treatment.

She and others of her ilk should perhaps watch this 10 minute video to learn more about antibiotics, infection and resistance...