Hellen’s Reviews > Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection > Status Update

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.

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??? 🤨🤨