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Its been around for millions of years but because it is slow it doesn't ever get press coverage

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

My boy Arthur caught a bad case. Man was gonna farm mangoes in Tahiti. Gone too soon!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I think we say developing countries now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I thought the proposal to call them majority world countries was interesting.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

"I've seen two cases of active TB while working in hospitals in a developing country"

Yeah that makes sense too

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The US is developing? That's great news!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Technically slowing down is also a form of acceleration, because it’s a change in speed/direction. Technically the US is developing, just downwards.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

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.