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The Antibiotic resistance issues were seeing are orders of magnitude less problematic than the deaths caused by bacteria pre antibiotics. And - the flu isn't 100% safe for non old and non "weak" - no clue where you got that impression from. The 1918 flu pandemic (the origin of the still circulating h1n1 strain) was among the deadliest pandemics ever exactly because it was most likely to kill yound, healthy people

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The problem isn't the current state of resistance - the problem is the growing state of antibiotic resistance. What happens when the trend continues and we no longer have useful antibiotics? Then we're right back to square one.

But what does that have to do with vaccines?

An effective vaccine reduces antibiotic resistance pressures, since fewer people are taking antibiotics.

They were drawing a comparison. Overuse of antibiotics can lead to antibiotic resistance; and similarly, in some cases we get similar results with antivirals.

Sure, but an antiviral is not a vaccine, so I'm not sure what the comparison is there. And it's not like there's no technological path on the horizon to deal with Antibiotic resistance- its probably an underfunded area of research but the situation is very very far from apocalyptic. The bubonic plague was apocalyptic- but antibiotics are pretty effective against that

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