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Message: <blockquote data-quote="slobster" data-source="post: 7941166" data-attributes="member: 6693711">As an immunologist who works in healthcare and is on the frontlines of this outbreak, I can assure you that medical science is nowhere near being able to cure all diseases, profits or not. I'm not gonna argue that corporate decisions aren't really shortsighted and inhumane in many cases, and that you can't find plenty of examples of corporate actions costing lives, but that's not the whole story either.I'm not at all confident that if we'd been funding the development of a vaccine or cure nonstop since 1900 for even just all coronaviruses (the old "cure for the common cold") at the scale of the US national defense budget, that we would necessarily have a completely airtight foolproof treatment by now. Science just fundamentally doesn't work at the scale of "double the funding, double the progress", and these are some seriously devious diseases. And that doesn't even get into the fact that coronaviruses are like 25% of common colds, not to mention all the other tens of thousands of pathogenically distinct diseases out there.But hey, if someone ever finds the panacea to treat all illness, the second person behind them will be trying to patent and get rich off of it, so I get where the cynicism comes from.</blockquote>