Even with modern medicine, I am being forced to lay in increasingly uncomfortable positions just to breathe and can’t get more than a few hours sleep. And that’s with a disease where if I coughed on a slide, they could easily identify it. Incidentally, it’s one that is cross-species.
There is something else I am dealing with that test upon test can’t seem to diagnose. I can treat some of the symptoms, but not all of the time.
Every day, people – even some who should know better – buy into “cures” more disproven than snake-oil. Because they’re desperate, and modern medicine can do little more than shrug. All of this is on a planet we’ve had thousands of years to study.
Frankly, I find the idea of needing a hat more world-breaking than a cross-species alien virus or other microbe with no known cure and people hawking some kind of placebo (or worse) to desperate victims.