Your nightmare scenario is missing some important facts.<p>80% of antibiotic use in the USA goes to farm animals, not people.  We could therefore significantly reduce the amount of antibiotics in our environment without affecting human lives.<p>You could make another very significant reduction by keeping doctors from prescribing antibiotics so often to placate patients who really don&#x27;t need them.<p>This would go a long way towards reducing bacterial resistance without changing what treatments are available for truly sick people.