>"So anything that we do to try and kill bacteria, or anything the environment does to try and kill bacteria, bacteria will eventually discover ways or find ways around those" he is making factual statements that are plainly incorrect on their face. Bacteria don't desire anything, and they don't seek out anything or plan anything.

You are taking this too literally. But in any case just because bacteria aren't intelligent doesn't mean their behavior is purposeless. Evolution acts as an optimization process. It's not too far from the truth to ascribe it "desires".

On the frontline episode this was from talked about how pharmaceutical companies have all stopped investing in new antibiotics. It might be possible to make better ones but I don't know how much research is actually going on at the moment.

I'm kind of skeptical. We are fighting against millions of years of evolution. The drugs we have we only got by copying things evolution already found, and they became resistant in mere decades, an extremely short time from an evolutionary perspective. Any simple way of killing bacteria would probably already have been developed by evolution. Likewise pathogens have spent millions of years evolving to defeat everything thrown in their way, and they continue to do so.

We are joining into this ancient arms race as entirely new players.