All the disease and sickness cannot just be excised like a tumor, it's too advanced, too widespread throughout the whole body, too deep in it's bones.
This isn't Stage 4 cancer, we've gone beyond that.
We're fuckin' Deadpool at this point: We ARE cancer.
Well, you never really know. If there was ever a collapse of the electrical grid or something shit would get crazy in the US real fast. It would probably turn into a militarized hellscape but possibly could be pockets of revolutionary activity