John Green

Well, the first thing I'd say about that is that a large measure of America's power over the last 50 years has come from its generosity. The second thing I'd say is that this is not only a problem in impoverished countries. To imagine that disease understands political borders is a fundamental misimagining of disease, right? We know this from COVID. We know it from HIV.

We know it from every pandemic we've ever experienced. And by chaotically and without any warning, discontinuing the treatment of hundreds of thousands of people living with tuberculosis, we know that when your treatment gets interrupted in the middle of your course of antibiotics, you are vastly more likely to develop drug resistance.

We know it from every pandemic we've ever experienced. And by chaotically and without any warning, discontinuing the treatment of hundreds of thousands of people living with tuberculosis, we know that when your treatment gets interrupted in the middle of your course of antibiotics, you are vastly more likely to develop drug resistance.

We know it from every pandemic we've ever experienced. And by chaotically and without any warning, discontinuing the treatment of hundreds of thousands of people living with tuberculosis, we know that when your treatment gets interrupted in the middle of your course of antibiotics, you are vastly more likely to develop drug resistance.

That's a catastrophe personally for the person who's affected that way. But it's also societally an issue because it means that there's more drug-resistant, more complicated drug-resistant TB floating around in communities. People are acquiring more complicated drug-resistant TB.

That's a catastrophe personally for the person who's affected that way. But it's also societally an issue because it means that there's more drug-resistant, more complicated drug-resistant TB floating around in communities. People are acquiring more complicated drug-resistant TB.

That's a catastrophe personally for the person who's affected that way. But it's also societally an issue because it means that there's more drug-resistant, more complicated drug-resistant TB floating around in communities. People are acquiring more complicated drug-resistant TB.

All of that is, I mean, that should scare all of us regardless of where we live because a totally resistant form of tuberculosis that we have no tools to treat is truly a nightmare.

All of that is, I mean, that should scare all of us regardless of where we live because a totally resistant form of tuberculosis that we have no tools to treat is truly a nightmare.

All of that is, I mean, that should scare all of us regardless of where we live because a totally resistant form of tuberculosis that we have no tools to treat is truly a nightmare.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

Right. I mean, I think people are beginning to question the idea of inoculation itself, the idea of scientifically proven treatments itself. And a lot of those people have a lot of power right now. And that worries me.

Right. I mean, I think people are beginning to question the idea of inoculation itself, the idea of scientifically proven treatments itself. And a lot of those people have a lot of power right now. And that worries me.

Right. I mean, I think people are beginning to question the idea of inoculation itself, the idea of scientifically proven treatments itself. And a lot of those people have a lot of power right now. And that worries me.

I do, yes. I'm not afraid to quote a Journal of Cost-Benefit Analysis. There's a journal for literally everything, man.

I do, yes. I'm not afraid to quote a Journal of Cost-Benefit Analysis. There's a journal for literally everything, man.

I do, yes. I'm not afraid to quote a Journal of Cost-Benefit Analysis. There's a journal for literally everything, man.

Right. I mean, just from a financial perspective, think about how much money we used to spend on tuberculosis in the United States. I mean, at the height of the TB crisis in America in the late 19th, early 20th centuries, There were almost as many beds to treat people with tuberculosis as there were beds in hospitals for all other conditions combined.