What I'm saying is that we should have treated antibiotics, as a worldwide community, like a stockpile with a finite lifespan and only a limited availability. As few uses as possible, with the goal of saving lives, not making people "feel better".
What I'm imagining is something like the Department of Energy, or even the CDC here, regulating the ability to prescribe antibiotics and establishing rules that must be followed for their use. Antibiotics would not be a privately exchanged commodity, but a highly regulated resource managed for the public good.
So, would this hypothetical future involve antibiotics for your hypothetical cases? Probably? Possibly? If doctors discerned that the cause of the swelling was bacterial infection, if the bladder infection was threatening to the wife's future well-being? Then I'd suppose so.
But you wouldn't get antibiotics just for being alive like you do now. They practically hand them out like candy at doctor's offices.
Oh, you have a cough? Have a z-pak. Doesn't matter if it's a viral infection going around, who cares if giving you this drug just ensures that some day in the future we won't be able to treat someone who is actually dying with azithromycin. What's important is that taking these pills will make you feel like we're doing something to help.