It’s always good to admit that you work for the government in this area. You definitely ave an agenda.
You're right, I do have an agenda. I dream of a day when deadly infectious diseases no longer affect humanity, and I work towards that day.
Until recently, infectious disease was the #1 killer world wide. It has been surpassed because we've controlled it well enough for people to live long enough to get age-related diseases like cancer and heart disease. It is still a top killer. Even in the US, with our fantastic medical system, infectious disease is up there in the top ten causes of death.
Unfortunately, the efforts of me and my colleagues in this fight against deadly infectious diseases are being opposed by anti-vaxxers. They post anti-vaccine propaganda--they use pseudo-science to sell it to people who understand nothing about science and who fall for it because they've never personally known of an infectious disease death. Since those behind the anti-vax movement are the same political ilk as those who would kill off humanity to "save the planet", it is clear what their motivation is. They want to return to the days when life expectancy was in the 40s, and people would have huge families in the hope of seeing one or two of their children survive to adulthood.
Yep, my agenda is to not go back to those days.