On the other hand, I couldn’t imagine the Omega navigational system being shut down (how do submarines navigate without it), but Omega is long gone, airplanes and ships use GPS, and submarines – well, they still get along.

That sentence says nothing. It is not a valid comparison of anything. A pap smear is a cervical mucus sample smeared upon a microscope slide, dried, stained, and examined – fast, cheap, capable in primitive conditions. DNA probes are expensive high tech that do not like condensing moisture and high ambient temps. Nobody dies of cancer. It is the sequelae that are fatal.

A half-century of State-mandated charity gushing Grand Guignol tsunamis of compassion into the Third World is obscene. An advocate makes virtue of failure. The worse the cure the better the treatment – and the more that is required. The rational and economic solution is to do nothing. Zero. Poverty will promptly disappear as gods beam their approval over landscapes tesselated with bloated corpses. Their Will Be Done.