Well thanks for making it obvious. Wish I could say it made me feel better about the world, but unfortunately no

I genuinely can't tell if you're trolling or a dumbass and that makes me sad for the world

My point is we did it before with far worse technology than we have now, far worse a grasp on epidemics than we have now. The tools we used to eradicate those diseases still exist, the methodologies still exist and have been monumentally improved upon. We work with technologies people of only a decade ago would deem impossible. These problems are indeed complicated, but we've banded together to solve complicated problems before.

If we were to throw ourselves entirely at eradicating AIDS, it'd be done in many parts of the world in a matter of years, I'd say. Not decades, hears. Just like we did with smallpox, just like we did with polio, and just like we did with cholera.

It's like we're in a daze and can't just pick something to focus on.

This is wholesome as fuck, but could you imagine living in a system where this doesn't have to happen?

Like, fuck. We wiped out Smallpox. We've damn near eradicated Polio. Cholera is essentially nonexistent in many places in the world and the path to eradication is clear.

Why the fuck can't we stand together like we used to in order to wipe out another disease? Are we more stupid now? Are we suddenly somehow incapable? Did we somehow get a mutation that makes it harder for us to survive?

The mailroom at the White House was once literally overwhelmed with letters containing dimes in order to combat Polio. Why the fuck are we incapable of replicating what we did less than a century ago?

Two wads of pocket lint and a Burger King coupon?