And sadly, the prescribing doctors are mostly to blame. Instead of gradually upping anti-biotics from the oldest to the newest, they've been carelessly just prescribing the newest first for quite awhile now. I have to ask my doctors for amoxicillin because it still works when I get strep or ear infections. But last time I mentioned this to the doctor she just said "I'm the doctor" and gave my cipromax or whatever it's called now... It pisses me off a wee bit that she is supposed to be the doctor, but not even listening when her patient is telling her amox still works for him. They should have put measures into place for this, to always use the oldest first until it's proven not to work and gone from there. Granted we would still eventually get to a post anti-biotic age, it would have been a lot slower in the making and decades or hundreds of years away. But by dropping the latest-and-greatest anti-biotic on every patient as the default solution, we've got here sooner than we should have.