[Black Agnes]

I’m fully aware of how MRSA came about.

My point was this: You will never outrun the microbes when you treat ‘disease’ by selecting against particular strains.

The microbes will win every single time.

I’m old enough to remember when suggesting that antibiotics had ‘stopped working’ in some cases was verboten heresy.

Which was met with suggestions to put antibiotics in the public water supply.

Thank G-d those nutjobs didn’t get their way.

[AdmSmith]

At least we both agree that it is very bad to spread antibiotics in water (or to routinely give it to animals). I guess that we as well can agree that it is bad to give antibiotics to every patient that complains about bacterial infections.