Thoughts

I tried to take a picture of myself in the pose of "The Thinker" to add to this post. It didn't work, I even had Max give it a shot. I'm really good at wasting time. Rather than google how I should correctly punctuate "The Thinker" I'll just leave it as is. For those of you that know something about grammar… sorry. I do math.

I found an article in the NY Post today about a new drug to treat cancer. By 'found' I mean I was wasting time on Facebook and read a short blurb someone else had "shared."It basically stated that Stanford had found a drug that showed very promising results to cure all types of cancer. It had been tested in mice on breast, liver, brain, ovarian… etc. AMAZING! Cancer basically keeps growing in your body because your immune system doesn't know it should kill it. It's a tricky little bugger. This drug (in my dumbed down version) blocks that part of the cancer cell so the immune system realizes it's bad news. They received huge amounts of money in grants to now begin testing humans. They briefly mentioned side effects, but it was a minimal mention. I'm sure there are some, I'm sure processes and such will take forever, blah blah blah. BUT IT'S EXCITING!!!!

It also got me to thinking… what if cancer really didn't exist? What would that world even look like? First of all, I'm quite certain that big pharmaceutical companies would make the drug so inaccessible it would be obscene. They need their money, right!? What would oncologists do for a profession? Where would all of that money go? Donated funds to cure cancer, runs and walks and triathlons galore to raise money and awareness for cancer. Pink stuff made for October, ribbon magnets, car stickers, save that tatas shirts, cancer cookbooks, wow there's a lot of stuff out there! What if there was no longer a reason for it!? Its incredible to think about. American Cancer Society, cancer related blogs, Cancer centers of America… what would plastic surgeons start reconstructing without breasts!? Wow. It could save lives, and ruin some too. So many people hurt because of cancer and so many people make their living because of cancer.

I'm ready. Let's end this sucker. Let's use that financial guy's snowball effect for disease. Everybody target one (but I get to pick which one), then once it's cured and eliminated, everybody migrates to the next disease. Yes!? YES! I should totally be in charge of the world...