1.3 million people died from TB in 2022
1.3 million people died from TB in 2022
Its been around for millions of years but because it is slow it doesn't ever get press coverage
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.
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.
My boy Arthur caught a bad case. Man was gonna farm mangoes in Tahiti. Gone too soon!
See also: prisons
I see you watched the newest Kurzgesagt video
And it's great, as usual!
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.
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.
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
Yeah, but how many were white?
How many were alive until death?
Almost all of them
Trumplicans: I'm your huckleberry.
e: poor trumpies gonna cry, let's ask Herman Cain what he thinks.
