I think human use of antibiotics, even when used frivolously like that, are less of a problem than agricultural use.
Antibiotics-resistance is typically an expensive trait for bacteria to maintain, and without selective pressure, it'll typically be selected against. (It's why rotating antibiotics works.)
Also a pill a day, infrequently, is probably also not a big deal.
The problem arises in agricultural use when antibiotics are fed to cattle every single day, with every meal, to every head of cattle, in every ranch. That creates an environment where you're selecting for bacteria resistant to antibiotics. But even if antiobotics start being resisted, we just need to stop using them for a while and they'll become effective again. Sucks for the people infected the the bacteria though. So we can take some amount of heart in that abusing antibiotics is unlikely to end humanity, it just might create a huge humanitarian disaster at some point, which as we've seen, modern capitalism is very prepared to ~handle~ ignore.
Antibiotics-resistance is typically an expensive trait for bacteria to maintain, and without selective pressure, it'll typically be selected against. (It's why rotating antibiotics works.)
Also a pill a day, infrequently, is probably also not a big deal.
The problem arises in agricultural use when antibiotics are fed to cattle every single day, with every meal, to every head of cattle, in every ranch. That creates an environment where you're selecting for bacteria resistant to antibiotics. But even if antiobotics start being resisted, we just need to stop using them for a while and they'll become effective again. Sucks for the people infected the the bacteria though. So we can take some amount of heart in that abusing antibiotics is unlikely to end humanity, it just might create a huge humanitarian disaster at some point, which as we've seen, modern capitalism is very prepared to ~handle~ ignore.