You're reading too much into my post. I'm neither advocating nor opposing the current model of who gets to prescribe antibiotics and how hard it is to see the gatekeepers (currently doctors). But I do endorse some sort of system in which there are (hopefully somewhat enlightened) gatekeepers. Plenty of miserable, painful infectious diseases are not bacterial in nature.

This is an issue that pits public health against the perceived (not actual) self interests of people who want antibiotics. Public health is not medicine, though it does guide medicine.

Also, "Fuck you doctor" is a greeting that I've never seen before. Hilarious.