Also he's wrong in that a vaccine is not a cure and if you actually have polio you are still SOL
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There's no *cure* for most viruses (from the common cold to HIV) because of how viruses work, inconveniently
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People were really spoiled by penicillin and how antibiotics suddenly wiped out a whole class of disease
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Which is funny because that's probably going to go away soon and we're going to go backwards in terms of "cures"
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Freaky reading how pre-antibiotics sometimes you tripped and fell and got a cut and it got infected and you died and that was just life
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Or pre-vaccines your baby just got measles randomly and died and that was also just life
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I guess we're gonna find out how it feels soon
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Penicillin is legit an inspiring story, a rare example of something that feels close to a miracle, and betting on another one is bad policy
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Like maybe there are other surprising magic bullets hidden in the rich stew of nature but we're running out of places to look
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Also if that's what you're betting on maybe don't keep killing of thousands of species we haven't even discovered yet
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(Yes yes I know that was the plot of that movie)
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