[babydriver]

Originally Posted by mdm

So we may be sson in a pretty deep sh*t. Say thank you to:
1. irresponsible users, who do not follow antibiotic regimes, stop their therapies eraly, or take antibiotics willy-nilly
2. irresponsible doctors, who prescribe antibiotics when they are not needed.
3. large-scale farming practicies, or more importantly lax regulation thereof, which allows using antibiotics in healthy farm animals just as a preventive measure, or because growth is faster when on antibiotics
4. capitalism, because return on investement into developing antibiotics is small. A person normally takes a few 5-day or 10-day antibiotic courses over their life, so pharma companies prefer to allocate more resources to creating drugs that you take over long period of time, often daily for a lifetime.

Absolutely correct in every respect! Well said, sir.