I agree with most of what you said, Sven, especially the part about some people refusing treatment for treatable illnesses. It's very sad when people can be easily cured with real medicine, but prefer to believe that pseudoscience or mysticism can cure them, and therefore get worse or die. I'm sorry to hear that you know of one such case personally, I've only read about them.

I did want to correct one thing, though:

You don't need to treat the common flu with antibiotics, that is like shooting a fly with an atomic bomb.

Actually, from what I understand, the common flu can't be treated with antibiotics at all, so the fly/bomb analogy is a little off. The fly would still be killed by the bomb, but a flu virus wouldn't be killed by an antibiotic. (Antibiotics kill bacteria, influenza is a virus.)