If anything, the Armageddon scenarios that the media like to play out (which are utterly terrifying - an end to routine surgery, cutting yourself gardening pote

If anything, the Armageddon scenarios that the media like to play out (which are utterly terrifying - an end to routine surgery, cutting yourself gardening potentially being fatal etc.) could have caused a shift in the "I'm ill, give me antibiotics", so in that way, has been just as useful as other controls put in place.