In America

It's not just that I feel like we're not going forward as a country as much as it's truly shocking that we seem to be going BACKwards; here's Bill Gates expressing the same bewildering frustration:

Back when I was giving TED speeches warning about the next pandemic, I would have said, Well, a next pandemic would be a terrible thing, but at least people would say, Wow, these vaccines are amazing! They’d say, We need to have disease surveillance, and we need to strengthen the World Health Organization. I never would have expected that after vaccines clearly saved tens of millions of lives, the reputation of vaccines and the commitment to health surveillance would be lower than it was before the pandemic. 

It's just fucking weird, and sad.