[mschuster91]

And yet, people will demand an antibiotic from their doctor even with a test showing it's viral. Partially because school science ed doesn't cover that topic at all, partially because of "folk tales" aka learning from parents who didn't know better, partially because of placebo effect... and ultimately, because people want/need to feel better soon because they can't afford being too sick to work or having to take care for sick children.

In the end it dwarfs against antibiotics in agriculture anyway, but if we want to fix the issue of antibiotic overusage on humans, we need to completely re-think our relationship to work and sickness.