[djf]

I suspect that if we were to stop using a class of antibiotics for a while, the population of bacteria that had become resistant would succumb to population pressures.

If we don’t use the antibiotic, there is no advantage to having the resistance, and those bacteria would have to work for a living like everyone else.

Then, after a generation or two, we could restart using it.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"...and those bacteria would have to work for a living like everyone else."

Works for me.

As long as they don't ask for a bailout.