• @[email protected]
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    501 month ago

    I think the word recorded is doing a lot of heavy lifting here, because TB used to infect something like 70% of the urban population in the US.

    • @Raiderkev
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      151 month ago

      It’s how my boy Arthur went out. Poor bastard never made it to Tahiti to farm mangoes like he’d always dreamt of.

    • @ajikeshi
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      21 month ago

      so you can just call it an american tradition and move on?

      • @Jaderick
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        241 month ago

        If there was justice in this world it would only effect the dipshits… but we all know there is no justice.

          • @Jaderick
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            61 month ago

            I write both words all the time and still mess them up constantly lmao.

              • @Jaderick
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                51 month ago

                Then the next dude’s comment won’t make sense. Preserving for posterity.

        • @Tinks
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          51 month ago

          The unfortunate part is the two counties in KS most affected currently are two blue counties. They’re the more densely populated part of the state being part of the Kansas City metro. Sucks 😔

        • @Raiderkev
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          11 month ago

          I mean… There’s a vaccine so…

      • @[email protected]
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        91 month ago

        This is in the KC metro. It’s happening in bluer counties. Also, I bet it’s happening in Missouri too but I haven’t heard anything.

        • @[email protected]
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          -111 month ago

          Red state, red problems. Blue dots are still red states—unfortunately. The “Find Out” period will be wildly entertaining. The leopard show is having an amazing season.

          • @[email protected]
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            91 month ago

            This seems like an unnecessarily cruel opinion. It seems shortsighted to wish illness on people trying to do better when the odds are against them.

            If you want to turn these states blue, you can’t celebrate kill off all the blue voters. In fact, the US House district this is happening in, flipped a red seat blue in 2018.

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              -91 month ago

              There are plenty of red voters there who will meet the same fate. It’s 2025, and we are backsliding as a species. You’ll have to forgive me for having very little sympathy at this point.

          • WrenM
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            31 month ago

            Washingtonian here. I’m sure we’ll have them regardless of what that oaf says.

  • @[email protected]
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    151 month ago

    Apparently they’ve been monitoring this cluster for years, and this many cases is typical for a major city metro area. One of my friends works in public health, specifically TB, and this is basically the baseline.

  • @[email protected]
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    61 month ago

    I’m sure the white house has a plan for dealing with this. By making it worse. Hey, a bad plan is still a plan.

  • @Jumi
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    The first world paint job is cracking if it’s not already fully off.