Yes, I understand what you are saying. I suppose smoking and sugar intake isn’t the healthiest stuff for your body....but frankly, I do not want a government bureaucracy telling me what to use.
I feel capable, along with PRIVATE SECTOR FACTORS, in thinking for myself.
If a hospital finds a compelling reason NOT to use the stuff, then they shouldn’t have to do so. If enough hospitals do that, then suppliers will quit using their resources to create what people do not want.
Is it possible that govt mandated the use of antibi soaps? They certainly did in hospitals and other care facilities.
I’m all for you using whatever you want on your own person. You can make a great antibi soap with alcohol and other ingredients. But if you introduce a resistant strain of bacteria into the public, it becomes everyone’s concern.
If you smoke and it doesn’t affect me, I agree with you, smoke all you want. Same with sugar.
I get that people think they live in a bubble. We don’t. The compelling reason to continue to use antibi soaps in hospitals was that even though they were creating some problems, if - and that’s is IF - they were reducing a few infections, they’d continue using them.
If they created a situation where it dried skin and contributed to less hand washing, they’d mandate and police their staff more thoroughly.
But if it is creating resistant strains of bacteria, that IS a national interest. To have no national standard for these products would send us back to the dark ages.
“I suppose smoking and sugar intake isn’t the healthiest stuff for your body....but frankly, I do not want a government bureaucracy telling me what to use.”
Fully implemented socialized medicine will likely shorten your life more so than tobacco. Shortened life spans in communist countries is a good indicator.