Congress spends hundreds of billions bailing out banksters and auto unions, while easily solved issues like this are allowed to linger, destroying countless lives worldwide.
Sure, it's a tragedy.
Philosophical question - why should I pay my taxes to cure this condition 'worldwide'?
This isn't polio, this isn't the 18th century. We know how people get sick, we know how to prevent this problem. Everyone does.
This isn't something money can fix - this is a cultural problem.
We don't need to throw money at it, and certainly not at the Federal level. Because this isn't some kind of new thing, it's a people that have gotten lazy about public health and forgotten how awful epidemics can be.
It is - just like tape worm in the brain, a cultural problem, not something that money can fix.
I don't habitually go around blaming individual problems on 'society' or 'the masses'. But ...
It's 'us' that got weak. Our culture. We got lazy, decided that the poisons that eliminated bedbugs were bad, forgot how awful the things were, how much work it was to keep a household free of pestilence, and let them slip back in.
You can see this attitude everywhere from vaccine deniers to the fools who deride public health measures as intrusive on their liberties.