Bacteria Then and Now

BACTERIA IN 1928 oh no, penicillin(( BACTERIA NOW hahaha I have resistance to all kinds of antibiotics, you'll die from superinfection

The meme contrasts a small, weak-looking bacterium in 1928, frightened by penicillin, with a muscular modern bacterium boasting resistance to all antibiotics and predicting death from superinfection. The joke refers to antibiotic resistance and the growing difficulty of treating bacterial infections, using the exaggerated Buff Doge versus small Doge format as a reaction to medical progress backfiring. EN: The meme contrasts a small, weak-looking bacterium in 1928, frightened by penicillin, with a muscular modern bacterium boasting resistance to all antibiotics and predicting death from superinfection. The joke refers to antibiotic resistance and the growing difficulty of treating bacterial infections, using the exaggerated Buff Doge versus small Doge format as a reaction to medical progress backfiring.

• @afrosidemoon / 29706 2020-07-16