Its been around for millions of years but because it is slow it doesn't ever get press coverage
That's because of where those deaths are. I've seen 2 cases of active TB working in hospitals in the US in almost 20 years. Both from new immigrants. Sadly it's "mostly" a third world illness.
I think we say developing countries now.
"I've seen two cases of active TB while working in hospitals in a developing country"
Yeah that makes sense too
The US is developing? That's great news!
Technically slowing down is also a form of acceleration, because it’s a change in speed/direction. Technically the US is developing, just downwards.
Worse, downwards implies gravity. There's no gravity to it, it's not driving the car if we stop it stops. We're actually regressing, we see the path forward get scared and start aggressively reversing.
I see you watched the newest Kurzgesagt video
Somebody watched the new Kurzgesagt video.
As soon as Kurtzgesagt said John Green I knew what the video would be about. John Green has made TB awareness his mission for a couple of years now.
The flu averages like 700K deaths every year forever
We can treat and cure TB. But capitalists don't want to spend the money when it's not profitable.
It's cheap to treat TB. You are ignoring the fact that the medical systems in many of these countries do not pay enough doctors or buy enough medicine for their citizens. People die of malnutrition too. That's prevented by eating.
These are poor countries that can't afford to because the company that owns the tests and treatments keep them too high.
access to medicine and food are predicated on access to capital. it would be better if these were seen as common resources that everyone needs to be able to access. this attitude flies in the face of private property and commoditized labor, both facets of capitalism.
Are these "the capitalists" in the room with you right now? JFC dude, the capitalist countries you're complaining about are also the ones with the lowest TB mortality. Not everything bad is because of "the capitalists."
https://assets.ourworldindata.org/grapher/exports/tuberculosis-deaths.png
And they keep treatments and tests much too expensive for the poorer countries to afford. Allowing millions to die because they want to keep a higher ROI.
Unfortunately, nobody cares about third worlders. You can treat tuberculosis with antibiotics, which doesn't help if they have none or are too poor.
It's the same with refugees, hundreds drown in the sea and nobody cares, but if some billionaires disappear in a submarine on their way to titanic, millions are spent in an international collaboration trying to rescue their corpses.
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