Yes, my point was that people assume incorrectly that bacterial infection always acompanies the influenza infection and want antibiotics anytime they have a virus. This, according to the experts in infectious disease, is a primary cause of antibiotic resistance and is not in keeping with current medical recommendations.
I understand your point of anti-biotic resistance but disagree. I’m pretty sure that when I take 7 days of ciprofloxacin I don’t also have a staph infection. I last used cipro two months ago when I was having trouble breathing during a lengthy sickness. My breathing improved within a day and the cipro cleared up the cold/flu soon thereafter. I was able to return to work much sooner. Versus the crapshoot of going to a doctor it was a no-brainer.
I believe mis-diagnosing and stopping prescribed prescriptions prematurely are likely much greater causes of anti-biotic resistance. In any event the traditional path didn’t help this man. I believe having some anti-virals and anti-biotics on hand would have.