This is why I wish we'd done more basic research on the immune system long ago. Maybe if we'd invested more time and money into a vaccine for HIV/AIDS, a disease which attacks the immune system directly, we'd realize we need to do this basic research on how our immune system works in order to even begin to understand a pandemic and our response to it. But at least I have hope we're getting it now so when something worse comes along we'll be more ready for it.