Antibiotic resistant viruses rife in the peloton.

About Sven Nys:
"The Belgian champion is using antibiotics to get rid of a cold, but
he has been having one of his best weekends of the season."

If one bothers to search Cycling****e.com you'll find a number of
similar stories in which top riders take antibiotics for colds. What
bunch of eejits - don't they know it's a virus? Is "antibiotic" a
euphemism? Do antibiotics have some great performance enhancing
properties? Is the cold just a ruse to get a TUE? All they need is
some Lemsip and TLC from their mammies... [that last one just applies
to Lance].

ct

teljeuc wrote:
About Sven Nys:
"The Belgian champion is using antibiotics to get rid of a cold, but
he has been having one of his best weekends of the season."

If one bothers to search Cycling****e.com you'll find a number of
similar stories in which top riders take antibiotics for colds. What
bunch of eejits - don't they know it's a virus? Is "antibiotic" a
euphemism? Do antibiotics have some great performance enhancing
properties? Is the cold just a ruse to get a TUE? All they need is
some Lemsip and TLC from their mammies... [that last one just applies
to Lance].

ct

The peloton is rife with euphemisms.

Bob Schwartz

On Feb 9, 9:49*am, teljeuc wrote:
About Sven Nys:
"The Belgian champion is using antibiotics to get rid of a cold, but
he has been having one of his best weekends of the season."

If one bothers to search Cycling****e.com you'll find a number of
similar stories in which top riders take antibiotics for colds. What
bunch of eejits - don't they know it's a virus? Is "antibiotic" a
euphemism? Do antibiotics have some great performance enhancing
properties? Is the cold just a ruse to get a TUE? All they need is
some Lemsip and TLC from their mammies... [that last one just applies
to Lance].

ct

This has been noted a couple of times before in rbr:

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.b...f722e0d32a4686

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.b...08067d8e7e18cf

It's not clear if they mean something other than a cold,
something other than antibiotics, or they are just eedjits.

Ben

On Feb 9, 9:49*am, teljeuc wrote:
About Sven Nys:
"The Belgian champion is using antibiotics to get rid of a cold, but
he has been having one of his best weekends of the season."

If one bothers to search Cycling****e.com you'll find a number of
similar stories in which top riders take antibiotics for colds. What
bunch of eejits - don't they know it's a virus? Is "antibiotic" a
euphemism? Do antibiotics have some great performance enhancing
properties? Is the cold just a ruse to get a TUE? All they need is
some Lemsip and TLC from their mammies... [that last one just applies
to Lance].

ct

I don't think that it's a function of doctors not knowing better, I
think it's a function of doctors giving patients antibiotics to shut
them up and get them out of their offices, knowing full well that the
cold will go away all in good time.

I don't think that it's a function of doctors not knowing better, I
think it's a function of doctors giving patients antibiotics to shut
them up and get them out of their offices, knowing full well that the
cold will go away all in good time.

Which results in people dying from the various hostile strains of
staph and pneumonia. If you don't believe in evolution, and you get
the new pneumonia, we'll give you the old penicillin. Cattle, hogs,
and chickens are fed sub-clinical doses of
antibiotics as well. That's why there is salmonella, staph, E. coli
that just don't quit.
Colds, treated aggressively, will go away in 5 - 8 days. When left
alone, it takes about a week.

Bob Schwartz wrote:
The peloton is rife with euphemisms.

Literal and figurative euphemisms.

On Feb 9, 2:23*pm, Donald Munro wrote:
Bob Schwartz wrote:
The peloton is rife with euphemisms.

Literal and figurative euphemisms.

super-motivated euphemisms

Revtom wrote:
Colds, treated aggressively, will go away in 5 - 8 days. When left
alone, it takes about a week.

Nice.

On Feb 10, 8:19*am, Revtom wrote:
I don't think that it's a function of doctors not knowing better, I
think it's a function of doctors giving patients antibiotics to shut
them up and get them out of their offices, knowing full well that the
cold will go away all in good time.

Which results in people dying from the various hostile strains of
staph and pneumonia. If you don't believe in evolution, and you get
the new pneumonia, we'll give you the old penicillin. Cattle, hogs,
and chickens are fed sub-clinical doses of
antibiotics as well.
you have some hard evidence to back that up ?

Henry wrote:
On Feb 10, 8:19 am, Revtom wrote:
I don't think that it's a function of doctors not knowing better, I
think it's a function of doctors giving patients antibiotics to shut
them up and get them out of their offices, knowing full well that the
cold will go away all in good time.
Which results in people dying from the various hostile strains of
staph and pneumonia. If you don't believe in evolution, and you get
the new pneumonia, we'll give you the old penicillin. Cattle, hogs,
and chickens are fed sub-clinical doses of
antibiotics as well.
you have some hard evidence to back that up ?

It's common knowledge by now.