Two part meme of Jim from the office pointing at a white board. In the first part he says: "Since 1958, when tuberculosis became curable, the disease has killed more people than died in World Wars I and II combined." In the second part he says, "And yet we don't study it in our history textbooks because we don't want to reckon with the reality that the most important historical forces are not generals or kings but systems of resource extraction and distribution that we all participate in, and that rob the most vulnerable among us not just of quality of life but also of life itself.ALT

We celebrate the purported geniuses who discovered the cure–but we don’t acknowledge that discovering a cure means nothing unless and until we get the cure to the people who need it–an enterprise we’ve failed at to a remarkable degree over the last 70 years.