Too little, too late. There was a CDC report that the 'age of antibiotics' is over and there is little point in limiting their use now. Lets move the conversation on to something productive: what next?
A last ditch effort to preserve the ones that still work, and limit the amount of resistance that develops buys a considerable amount of with for "what next".
Drug pipelines are not hackathons. They need time.
Bollocks. The complete loss of effectiveness of antibiotics is not something that has already happened; they are still saving lives as I write this post. It is something that will happen if we don't change our behavior. Whether we change our behavior quickly enough has still to be decided.
The opportunity to prevent the creation of antibiotic-resistant diseases is gone, that is the point. Go ahead and use your antibiotics, and if you are lucky they will do something.
Its useful to think in more than black and white. But sometimes thresholds are crossed; the 'prevent the creation of difficult diseases' threshold has been passed years ago.
