My mother died from it as do many elderly people. My daughter got it from a hospital. It is going around the schools, prisons, gyms, hospitals & many nursing homes have it. Not everyone can get over it as easily as you have said. People are dying from it. It is not very,very, very rare.
MRSA is ubiquitous these days. Epidemiology wise, its prevalence is 7-10% across the country. Comparing the total numbers of patients who were infected with MRSA to the mortality rate, death from MRSA is still, in fact, rare. Elderly patients die from MRSA because of their immunocompromised state but MRSA is NOT super-resistant to every antibiotics out there. MRSA requires more agressive treatment, yes, but is still very treatable. More patients die of other strains of bacteria than MRSA. I treat patients with MRSA infections every day in my practice.
My wife’s father got it in the hospital and never came home. We were told when he contracted it that it was virtually unstoppable.
Granted, he was 85 and his system was weak, still, it killed him.