It&#x27;s called quarantine. It&#x27;s a valid tactic, though it&#x27;s quite unpleasant for everyone. If the issue is really as serious as the article details, my plan is not so much of a &quot;we can solve this problem if we do X&quot; as much as a &quot;this is the extreme approach required to mitigate the problem&quot;. The government will naturally default to this strategy if things are actually in danger of getting bad. Getting bad is defined as a drug resistant bacteria&#x27;s ability to occasionally fell healthy normal people.<p>I guess the alternative is to hand wave that us scientists can magically solve the decades-building problem that big-agriculture and doctors caused. Sure, we&#x27;ll get right on it, but there needs to be a plan for the time between when research starts and when a new group of antibiotics is tested and ready for the market. Staged rotating&#x2F;phasing out certain antibiotics so that they will be usable again after a period of time would ensure that there&#x27;s something left in reserve for people who actually need it.