Guinea worm disease hit 3.5M people in 1986. Here's how that goes: you drink contaminated water. Larvae eat through your intestine. Mature worms eat through your skin; you reintroduce them to water to cool the searing pain. CDC & Gates collaborated. 51 cases worldwide in 2019.
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I struggle to fathom how much of a loser you'd have to be to even consider writing this piece, and to be immoral enough to actually do it is just straight-up beyond my imaginative capacity
I leave it to Anna to be cordial and to stop tagging me if she doesn't want the bad cop to show up, but for my piece I have zero remaining tolerance for trust fund navel-gazers who have Serious Concerns about the people who aren't moving resources toward solutions the "right" way
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I invite anyone who'd like to test their personal bias/privilege to infect themselves with guinea worm and share their thoughts about how much esteem, status or cultural importance someone who eliminates that parasite should be "allowed" to get.
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I personally have some doubt that *this* guy has the balls, but I live to be proven wrongpic.twitter.com/Bsw6Pl40m3
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Steelman attempt: "My complaint isn't that they are solving the right problem in the wrong way. My complaint is that they are "solving" a non-problem. What you call "low-hanging fruit" went unpicked because most people didn't want to pick it, not because nobody saw it."
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Part of it is that there isn't a homogenous "they". Part of it is also that others are often solving the same problems better and cheaper, and get much less credit. Eg., the Indian Space Research Organization sent Mars and Moon missions for a fraction of SpaceX's budget.
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