New Report Reports

I love The Daily Beast. It gives me the Reader's Digest version of news events. And here's one from today:

AIDS Could Be History by 2018

A stunning new report out today says the virus that causes AIDS could be eliminated in a decade. The research, published in The Lancet and based on a mathematical model, shows the virus could be eradicated if people in countries with high infection rates were tested and treated regularly. But don’t get too excited: The AP cautions the study “is based on assumptions rather than data and is riddled with logistical problems.” Still, “It’s quite a startling result,” Charlie Gilks, an AIDS treatment expert at the World Health Organization and one of the paper’s authors, told AP. “In a relatively short amount of time, we could potentially knock the epidemic on its head.”


That's 10 years in an ideal world. 10 years of everything going right and everyone being responsible.

I once went 10 minutes in an ideal world. 10 minutes of everything going right and everyone being responsible (that is, of those people I ran into in those 10 minutes, which was only one). Yes, that's right. 10 whole minutes. During the first minute, we slept. In the second, we slept some more. In the third, we were still tired so we slept. It went on like this for seven more minutes: sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep. Everything went right. Everyone was loving, caring, responsible, and selfless. And at the end of the 10 minutes do you know what happened?

We woke up.