Natural Exposure to Disease

I think you have touched on something I have observed about our society, an almost OCD paranoia about germs. Everything has anti-bacterial agents in them, which is breeding stronger, more resistant bacteria. In reality our immune system depends on being exposed to germs in our environment. A classic example is small pox. Even though it was a horrible disease for the Europeans, they had evolved with it for many centuries and developed a balance with it. When they introduced it to the Native Americans, it devastated them because they had never had any natural exposure to this disease.

Infants, children, and adults are supposed to be exposed to antigens in our environment. Those that survive the encounter go on to have children who are more resistant, etc. In the natural world, the strong survive and the weak die off which makes the species stronger. Humans are manipulating with the natural order so that the weak also survive. This may not be the best practice for the strength of our species.

When you apply this to vaccines and anti-bacterial everything, we may be inadvertently making our species more susceptible to disease and more likely to die from disease.