[anon363764]

Necessary knee-jerking wake-up call: Antibiotics should be rationed, those prescribed (after culturing) must be assured they are taken by some automatic/interactive means and it should be a felony to pill-mill them for a cold; otherwise, without rapid r&d, we're going to lose the survival arms race.

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I saw a few articles last year that said something about new meds that can replace antibiotics (or are even better antibiotics, I don't know), but they aren't approved yet.

As far as I understand it, the problem here isn't that we lose an arms race because we don't have alternatives, but because of our approval systems.

When enough antibiotics lost their effects, laws will probably be changed OR it will take long enough till we got the alternatives in the marked.