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The nature of being a person is that you feel like today is the last day of human history because it's the last day of the human history you've lived through. It feels like the end of the story. "I started out zero, and then I ended up 47. And that's the story of my life." Right? But of course, that's not the story of my life, hopefully. Hopefully, this isn't the last day. This is not the end of the story. It feels like the end of the story because it's the last bit I've lived through. But it's the middle of the story. And so that's why we have to fight and scrap and continue to be hopeful–because it is the middle of the story.

He goes on to say "And I really believe that the end of the story for tuberculosis is the end of tuberculosis–this disease that has been with us for the whole 300,000 years that we've been here. How amazing would it be to be able to live in a world where that's no longer a public health threat? Well, we can live in that world. And right now we're taking steps away from living in that world, but those aren't the last steps we're ever gonna take."

But it's frustrating now. Trump and Musk are destroying programs that are fighting TB, Malaria, HIV. Frankly, it's a good example of why I think conservatives suck, like in general. From nationalist "well they're not even American!" to dumb ass libertarian "they gotta help themselves" to it being a "anything liberals like is bad" or "well we can't fix EVERY problem" or just plain old "it's my money nyah nyah" .... whatever the "justification" we are allowing the amount of suffering to increase vs the pretty small change amount it would take to keep these programs going.