Massive force at a point. If your attack is total enough that you kill everyone in the initial engagement, then the survivors don't get to adapt.
If you made antibiotics something you can't get outside of an isolation ward. If we stopped using them on farm animals, if we made everyone finish their meds (rather than sending them home to maybe do it and maybe not), if we burned the bodies when we failed and sterilised the rooms....
Where's the chance to adapt, where's the chance to spread? You'd be looking at too few generations in a single individual and even if they developed the adaptation, they'd die anyway before it could spread.
I'm not saying that we will, but stranger things have happened. If you only had one antibiotic left in the world that worked, that would not be an unreasonable way to treat its use.
"If you made antibiotics something you can't get outside of an isolation ward. If we stopped using them on farm animals, if we made everyone finish their meds (rather than sending them home to maybe do it and maybe not), if we burned the bodies when we failed and sterilised the rooms...."
Of course all of that is radically better (in the narrow sense of decreasing the rise of resistant bacteria) than what we're doing today, but it's still not any sort of a guarantee. When you treat someone with antibiotics, you're necessarily exposing everything that's in 'em, and you're necessarily not wiping out everything that's in 'em, and bacteria trade genes.
If you made antibiotics something you can't get outside of an isolation ward. If we stopped using them on farm animals, if we made everyone finish their meds (rather than sending them home to maybe do it and maybe not), if we burned the bodies when we failed and sterilised the rooms....
Where's the chance to adapt, where's the chance to spread? You'd be looking at too few generations in a single individual and even if they developed the adaptation, they'd die anyway before it could spread.
I'm not saying that we will, but stranger things have happened. If you only had one antibiotic left in the world that worked, that would not be an unreasonable way to treat its use.