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> COVID-19 doesn't appear to be bizarrely unique in this respect I don't agree. How many highly contagious, long-incubation, temporarily debilitating, and perm

• Izkata 6y ago
  > I haven't been alive long enough to remember tuberculosis, so this is quite bizarrely unique to me. You're alive right now, aren't you? From wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuberculosis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuberculosis): > In 2018, there were more than 10 million cases of active TB which resulted in 1.5 million deaths.[7] This makes it the number one cause of death from an infectious disease.[13] [..] About 80% of people in many Asian and African countries test positive while 5–10% of people in the United States population test positive by the tuberculin test.[14] Mentions of tuberculosis stick out for me because there was a scare in my middle school that resulted in lots of us getting tested for it (in 2003, in the US). Luckily it was only a scare, as far as I'm aware none of the tests came out positive (and I know mine didn't).
• standardUser 6y ago
  Influenza can cause all kinds of serious and long term health problems. So can most STDs any given bacterial infection if they are left unobserved/untreated for long enough. Most pathogens have some chance of causing serious problems, they are just usually rare, just like with COVID-19.