Out of Pod Experience

I could go on for pages. Luckily there's lots of people out there who still put something called the scientific method over corporate profits. Seem to be less and less of them with every day, though.

well let's be honest here: if there wasn't vaccination, we would still have quite a high level of smallpox and the polio wasn't nearly inexistent here in the more civilized nations. also the regular (think 10-year?) tetanus vaccine shot does save lives.

Hint as to where you got a few facts wrong : antibiotics do exactly jack squat to VIRUSES directly.
Of course, there are different types of bad side-effects and consequences to taking unnecessary antibiotics, but creating stronger viral strains is hardly one of them.
So, yes, you should NOT want to get unnecessary antibiotics, but for different reasons.

In fact, if anything, unnecessary antibiotics might actually promote WEAKER strains of VIRUSES, since potential bacterial complications are lessened, making the hosts ever so slightly more viable as viral incubators, thus relaxing the adaptive pressures on viruses.
Statistically speaking though, it's most likely inconsequential either way.

Now, if you want to talk about antibiotic resistant bacteria promoted by incorrect overuse of antibiotics, now there you have a point, and it's a pretty bad thing to happen.
But you specifically said viruses, not pathogens, so you kind of excluded bacteria.
Unless you actually meant to say pathogens but used the incorrect word.


I will agree to the sheltering bit, a sterile environment is the best way to screw up an immune system.
But your take on drugs is not so great. Drugs do help, but many people do indeed either overmedicate, undermedicate, or take the wrong medicine to begin with. And sometimes they do it wrong at the urging of overzealous, or bored, or incompetent doctors.
What you should be saying is to USE DRUGS RESPONSIBLY, if you can confirm that they are actually needed, of the proper type needed, in the proper doses for your age/build, for the proper duration. Doing it any other way has a good chance to do more harm than good.