As a general rule of thumb it’s correct. Antibiotic resistance is a growing problem—it’s your basic red queen situation. We’re currently far ahead, but bacteria are catching up. This film is a pretty way of showing it happen (sort of) live. MRSA is causing more and more problems, especially as it tends to pop up in places where vulnerable people are (since that’s where it gets its resistance in the first place). It helps that there are different families of antibiotics, so if a strain is resistant to one of them, you can switch to a different kind. Though this paper suggests that each class works for ~50 years (I’m not a microbiologist and don’t know how true that is, though it fits with my priors). So it’s a valid issue, especially in the context of livestock, where it’s common to mix in antibiotics with the food (as each day ill is a day not growing).
That being said, this is mainly a problem in developed countries with ample access to antibiotics, which is a totally different case from the one you’re making. You could even say that it bolsters your idea, as why not send the weakened versions somewhere where they still have a chance of working?
As a general rule of thumb it’s correct. Antibiotic resistance is a growing problem—it’s your basic red queen situation. We’re currently far ahead, but bacteria are catching up. This film is a pretty way of showing it happen (sort of) live. MRSA is causing more and more problems, especially as it tends to pop up in places where vulnerable people are (since that’s where it gets its resistance in the first place). It helps that there are different families of antibiotics, so if a strain is resistant to one of them, you can switch to a different kind. Though this paper suggests that each class works for ~50 years (I’m not a microbiologist and don’t know how true that is, though it fits with my priors). So it’s a valid issue, especially in the context of livestock, where it’s common to mix in antibiotics with the food (as each day ill is a day not growing).
That being said, this is mainly a problem in developed countries with ample access to antibiotics, which is a totally different case from the one you’re making. You could even say that it bolsters your idea, as why not send the weakened versions somewhere where they still have a chance of working?