16 February

'We have to live with it'. I get told that a lot. Do we live with HIV? Or cancer? Heart disease? Even flu? Do people even know how much money and effort goes into trying to eliminate all of those things? Do they notice we don't say to people 'sure, catch HIV, get heart disease, catch the flu, we need to live with these things'? It's a political slogan, empty of content. What it really means is 'we need to ignore it and live they way we used to live'. Or in other words, take no adult responsibility for it at all. Millions will continue to die, if we do that.