> You're dead on about the superbugs. Many people are such self-centered wimps.

It is not so much the self-centered wimps (I think you mean the common patients who demand antibiotics?) who are to blame. More like profit-motive at work. Two main culprits:

1) The doctors who administered antibiotics to people with virus infections. If they didn't mind encouraging their customers to not come in for office visits for colds/flu they would say: "No, there is nothing I can give you to cure this cold/flu." Or maybe they should just treat with placebos. Regardless, doctors knew of the issues a long time before it became common knowledge. And they are still misusing antibiotics.

2) The farmers/ranchers (more of the big company / factory variety than the family variety at first. Subsequently, darn near everyone thought they had to do it to keep up with competition) who feed daily doses of antibiotics to their livestock. Rivers in America now contain measurable amounts of antibiotics tracable to livestock feed.