twobooksinthebox’s Reviews > Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection > Status Update

“as we saw with Covid, when an incurable illness
spreads widely among the rich and powerful, we dramatically increase our investments in tools to treat and prevent that disease.”

Hell yeah 👏🏻

Framing illness as even involving morality seems to me a mistake, because of course cancer does not give a shit whether you are a good person. Biology
has no moral compass. It does not punish the evil and reward the good. It doesn’t even know about evil and good.

Framing illness as even involving morality seems to me a mistake, because of course cancer does not give a shit whether you are a good person.