Readings lots of tweets re: covid vaccine in a world where we don’t have a “cure for cancer” or “cure for AIDS”. I actually think that’s great critical thinking but it’s missing that next step, research.

Cancer is thousands of individual diseases all caused by different genetic mutations in different cells. Despite this there have been AMAZING treatments found, including a vaccine, biological therapies and surgical techniques.

It’s true to say though, that maybe we’d be further along had the money and intensity of labour that’s been thrown at COVID-19 been thrown at cancer research. So let’s not blame the vaccine and distrust the scientists who done an amazing job, let’s fund science, let’s beat cancer

And let’s do the same with HIV. AIDS is preventable, and treatable. Modern antiretrovirals are incredible. You can suppress the virus to the point it can’t be passed on and the person can live a healthy life. But let’s fund science. Let’s get a vaccine. Let’s get a cure.

Yes this vaccine has happened incredibly quickly. But that’s because science is awesome and when it’s funded fully, like covid research has been, amazing things can happen. We can Beat all of these diseases. But only with trust in science, and funding.

The same scientists that you trust to be developing a treatment for Alzheimer’s for your gran, life changing treatments for MS, life savings treatments for childhood cancer are the same scientists that developed this vaccine. Science needs more funding, not distrust.

I’m not trying to tell you to have the vaccine, although I will and my whole family will too. That’s a decision you should make. But base that decision on fact, not Facebook. Base with trust in the scientific process, not the distrust that has been spread by conspiracy theorists.