well messing around with pathogens can make them stronger but we do that every day just by washing our hands. Our society is oversanitized. Which is counterintuive to my experience of all these scummy people out there. But even go to Walmart, like half the shoppers will wipe down the cart handles with those anti-bacterial wipes.
Another thing is the insistence on doctors of still giving antibiotics to people with viral infections. Why do they do that? I had post nasal drop. A cold. Viral. MD gives me antibiotics.
Antibiotics are by far the drugs most frequently used in situations where they’ll provide no value for patients. The survey found that more than a quarter of doctors surveyed (27 percent) said that antibiotics are often administered to patients when the drugs will do no good.
In most cases, the antibiotics are prescribed to treat upper respiratory infections even though these are most often caused by viruses unaffected by the medication
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/doctors-still-overprescribing-drugs-antibiotics/
That's why antibiotics can't be sold over the counter cuz we would have an outbreak in like a year. People using them for everything. I am interested in the hygiene hypothesis in general. I think it could be root of many current conditions. Food allergies for example are soaring.