Katey

“And so we must fight not just for reform within the system but also for better systems that understand human health not primarily as a market”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“For me, anyway, this way of understanding chronic illness—as being of the world but also not permitted by circumstances or the social order to be entirely with the world—is a sentiment applied from within rather than from without, a way of thinking about the limits and opportunities of disability that acknowledges difference and loss without othering or romanticizing. It’s not trustful or loving or soothing or mild. It’s true.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“The job of the “invalid,” as patients were commonly known, was to improve their health. The word “invalid,” of course, gets at the core of what it meant to live with chronic illness—you were a person outside of society, invalid in the social order, separated from your family and your community. Even if you convalesced at home, you were still kept from many of the rhythms of daily life.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“Covid-19 displaced tuberculosis as the world’s deadliest infectious disease from 2020 through 2022, but in 2023, TB regained the status it has held for most of what we know of human history. Killing 1,250,000 people, TB once again became our deadliest infection.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection