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Barely started and I’m already a little confused, but god do I love physics

Instead of investing our public health funds to tuberculosis extermination, the US is more worried about renaming stupid shit. I HATE IT HERE.

NOT WANTING YOUR TUBERCULOSIS INFECTED DAUGHTER TO KNOW HER SISTER ALREADY DIED OF TUBERCULOSIS SO YOU WRITE HER LETTERS PRETENDING TO BE HER DEAD SISTER ONLY FOR THE HER TO DIE TOO IS SO INCREDIBLY DEVASTATING.

Uncovering Koch’s lie about “curing” tuberculosis unofficially led to the creation of one of my favorite gay BBC shows. I love this place

It is such a weird idea to apply morality to diseases. There is so much the human mind makes up to ensure itself that bad things will never happen to it, but none of it is ever true. There are things you can do to lower risk factors to ward off disease, but even that isn’t a guarantee. Being a good person isn’t enough to save you from a life-altering diagnosis, and we shouldn’t act like it does.

It actually pisses me off how stupidly racist people were. First it was widely believed that black people couldn’t get tuberculosis because it’s a “disease of creativity and the mind”. As soon as they discovered bacteria, now only black people get it because they’re “unsanitary and only thrive under slavery”. THESE PEOPLE ARE SO DUMB BC THEY’RE SO RACIST.

Tuberculosis being seen as a way for women to become beautiful in the early 1800’s is CRAZY. Oh yeah she’s super hot now that she’s actively coughing up blood and can’t breathe. Totally worth it to lose almost all your body fat and get extremely pale.

Tuberculosis being so incredibly devastating and yet still rampant in underdeveloped countries will forever baffle me. Why we aren’t putting more funding into eliminating these diseases will forever confuse me. The dehumanization and stigma surrounding groups of people infected with TB and other diseases like HIV makes me so incredibly mad. Wanna rip my hair out rn.

No because why are people still dying of tuberculosis??? 🤨🤨

“nurses are subjected to ‘more acts of violence than police officers or prison guards’”. Healthcare workers literally are the backbone of society and they get treated like trash. It’s absurd.

The idea that unions can help fend off potential fascist policy from running rampant is attractive. The way they can break apart racial and political lines to build community. Too bad our government is set on union busting and unions themselves have their own set of issues within an individualistic society.

Loved the chapter on sexual anxiety, wish it was a little longer though

Chapter on victimhood was not my favorite chapter. I thought the ideas were interesting, but it just felt like it was trying to hit two ideas at once and didn’t explain either really well.

It always felt weird when right-winged commentators said that certain policies, especially anti-LGBT or immigration policies, upheld what we find in “nature”. It’s a stupid justification, and non-scientifically supported claim, to uphold hierarchies that only benefit them. Losers fr.

“Such attempts to legislate the erasure of a nations past are characteristic of fascist regimes.” Meanwhile we’re seeing the erasure of teachings about Southern slavery and the dismantling of the US Department of Education.

The fact that women make up more than 50% of STEM undergrads, but less likely to be cited in research or given tenure is stupid. Also more likely to be harassed and negatively described in RateMyProfessor evaluations. I hate it here.

i’m literally highlighting this entire book