4 ms·
COVID-19 impacts rich, western world, tuberculosis not so much. COVID-19 kills in USA 3 times more people in a day with all mitigations in place than TB does i
by Isinlor 6y ago
COVID-19 impacts rich, western world, tuberculosis not so much.
COVID-19 kills in USA 3 times more people in a day with all mitigations in place than TB does in a year without any extraordinary effort on mitigation.
Statistics for USA [0]:
> In 2017, the most recent data available, 515 deaths in the United States were attributed to TB. This is a decrease from 528 deaths attributed to TB in 2016.
So, let's be honest, we - I mean people like me, or you here on HN - don't care enough to really help these millions dieing out of our bubble... That's the truth. We may be outraged that nothing happens, but I will not change my job and invest my privilege to help this people. Will you?
[0] https://www.cdc.gov/tb/publications/factsheets/statistics/tbtrends.htm https://www.cdc.gov/tb/publications/factsheets/statistics/tb...
- redis_mlc 6y ago> COVID-19 impacts rich, western world, tuberculosis not so much. Well, TB is endemic in the Vietnamese community. Guess where two of the largest communities are? LA and SF Bay. If you're observant, you can see public health nurses scurrying around town doing TB follow-up visits on them.
- yostrovs 6y agoSome of us believe that "helping" doesn't really help. Most countries that are screwed up are screwed up because of who rules there. Given a reasonable government things would be totally different. Helping usually just feeds the leaders of those governments.