I work in hospital infection control. Extended-spectrum beta-lactamases are a major problem with several emerging infections, mostly Enterobacteriaceae.
"Instead, they focus on farm animals." - While the focus on farm animals occasionally irritates me because it lets doctors off the hook by pretending they're not part of the problem, ESBLs - as an example - are relatively common in livestock.
"...hesitant to prescribe basic antibiotics for conditions that could turn serious, where these people later on could end up in your care because of these mistakes." Of the problems we have, the inappropriate non-use of antibiotics pales in comparison to the inappropriate use of antibiotics, either using an overly broad spectrum agent (like penicillin or ampicillin...), the wrong agent, or treating a viral infection with antibiotics. Antibiotic stewardship, in both the inpatient and outpatient settings, is not pretty much the standard of care, and supported by major medical societies like the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.
"The idea that a super bug could get out of control in the general population is not scientifically sound because it would kill all of its hosts and therefore, kill itself rendering no vector to transfer between hosts. This is why I think ebola outbreaks always die down."
Relying on the concept of susceptible depletion is a really bad idea. It's one of those "just so" stories that seems to make sense, but doesn't work in practice (Ebola doesn't actually die down due to susceptible depletion either...)
The issue is not "OH MY GOD IT WILL KILL EVERYONE" but that there are activities today that are relatively risk free because if you do get an infection it's treatable. Things like surgery and childbirth. Absent effective treatments, the concern is that the mortality rate from infections will rise. Not to 100%, but it also doesn't need to be 100% to be a major public health problem.
Suddenly losing 10, 20, probably up to 60% of certain popluation groups (usually age based, but definitely not race-blind) is to be expected, with some groups more likely than others to be affected. The poor obviously, but beyond that children and elderly, sometimes with a large preference for one sex over another, or one race over another ...
I'm pretty sure that's pretty accurately described as "OH MY GOD EVERYBODY DIES", because ... that's certainly what it'll feel like for at least 6 months.
I think the much more useful examples are to read old historical accounts of every day life. People died of things we now simply assume to be safe - shaving, for example. There are all manner of modern interactions we have with the world and especially the medical system where the expectation is "I won't die during this" - and much of that relies on access to effective antibiotics.
Antibiotic resistance is unlikely to cause an epidemic in the same way as flu. What it's much more likely to do is make people have worse outcomes forever. You won't get gonorrhea any more than you do right now - but if you do it's not a quick course of antibiotics. It's a painful infection followed by the distinct possibility of sterility.
There's no once a generation, massive mortality pandemic of Acinetobacter.
The problem is that the routine procedures you don't think about as unsafe - like childbirth, patching up cuts, minor surgeries - could suddenly become life-threatening conditions.
0: https://dailyhistory.org/How_did_the_Bubonic_Plague_make_the...
That is not what a super bug means. It just means that it is resistant to antibiotics. Not that it has a MR of 100. It is possible for people to survive infections without antibiotics. I am surprised that I have to say this aloud. It seems that we are living in a time where people are born convinced that human beings cannot survive without medicines...