#frowing up in ~the rurals~ showed me a lot of people well past middle aged who have been 'self medicating' in ways like

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im so sus about the whole 'you NEED to use antibiotics for any sign of uri! it will never get better on its own!!"

bc like.... all mice have mycoplasma. if mice were barely able to go a week without getting a uri and without being able to fight it then mice would not exist. period.

unless uris are comparable to sepsis in mice, which they arent, because they can go months with one untreated.

#idk it's just so sus that everyones like oh yeah they cannot survive at all if you dont give them this synthetic drug thats like. #barely been around for a century #likeyeah onviously a lot of people died from infections back before antibiotics and antivirals #but a lot of people also survived and continue to survive without treatment #frowing up in ~the rurals~ showed me a lot of people well past middle aged who have been 'self medicating' in ways like #swallowing a teaspoon of Vaseline #treating their own machete injury even as it got infected. ie. doing nothing for it. #treating infected abdominal abscesses on their own with nothing but bandaids over the course of a couple months #pulling their own rotten teeth out with pliers #breaking off chunks of their rotten teeth with picks. #exact same people (YES--- PEOPLE) who did that never brushed their teeth. ever. They didnt even own toothbrushes #never washing their hands even after the bathroom and handling raw meat. immediately touching childrens mouths and the children #never get sick #like. #yall needa have some trust in the bodys ability to fight off infection #obv you should still eer on the side of caution bc you never know if they actually are able to figjt it off #but still. #i feel like this is just causing antibiotic dependence and eventually resistance