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Nobody cares if she runs off to a national forest and disappears in the wild where she can't be around others to spread infection. But to be around other peopl

Nobody cares if she runs off to a national forest and disappears in the wild where she can't be around others to spread infection. But to be around other people, knowing or should knowing that she is causing a high probability of harm to others IS a crime.

lettergram 3y ago
Such a high probability that in 2-3+ years there’s zero evidence she spread TB. There’s a reason TB isn’t an issue any more… we have dramatically improved health, smoke dramatically less AND have effective antibiotics. TB kills how many people in the US? Oh right… less than strep, do we lock up people with strep? Of course not. 13 million people today in the US have latent TB. Effectively, their body fought it odd and isolated the bacteria. We don’t lock them up. What evidence do we have that this person has an active case AFTER 2-3 years? https://www.statista.com/statistics/661344/tuberculosis-deaths-in-the-us-since-1960/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/661344/tuberculosis-deat... https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/tuberculosis/symptoms-causes/syc-20351250 https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/tuberculosis/... https://www.cdc.gov/tb/publications/factsheets/general/tb.htm https://www.cdc.gov/tb/publications/factsheets/general/tb.ht...
- anoonmoose 3y ago
  If her case was latent and she wasn't a danger of spreading the disease, my understanding is that her lungs wouldn't be so ravaged that they look like she has late stage lung cancer under an x-ray. And others have pointed out your 2-3 year number is weird and not terribly accurate as well.
  - lettergram 3y ago
    The case is from 2021 (ruling Jan 2022) meaning her rejection of treatment had to be prior to that. She had to have TB even before that. It’s fair to assume she got it mid-2021 or earlier
    - anoonmoose 3y ago
      ok so now that the minor disagreement about dates has been resolved, how about the major disagreement over evidence her disease is not latent?
- nerdchum 3y ago
  There's now Antibiotic resistant TB and if we keep using antibiotics for TB were risking creating more AB resistant strains. It's best if people don't get infected with it to begin with Antibiotic resistant TB is exponentially scarier to me than COVID.
- DoreenMichele 3y ago
  There’s a reason TB isn’t an issue any more… And, yet, an article from 3 days ago calls it a global health threat and notes that a million people die from it annually. https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/5/30/23738607/tuberculosis-global-health-threat-public-health-sheela-shenoi-op-ed https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/5/30/23738607/tuberculosis...

lettergram 3y ago

Such a high probability that in 2-3+ years there’s zero evidence she spread TB. There’s a reason TB isn’t an issue any more… we have dramatically improved health, smoke dramatically less AND have effective antibiotics. TB kills how many people in the US? Oh right… less than strep, do we lock up people with strep? Of course not. 13 million people today in the US have latent TB. Effectively, their body fought it odd and isolated the bacteria. We don’t lock them up. What evidence do we have that this person has an active case AFTER 2-3 years? https://www.statista.com/statistics/661344/tuberculosis-deaths-in-the-us-since-1960/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/661344/tuberculosis-deat... https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/tuberculosis/symptoms-causes/syc-20351250 https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/tuberculosis/... https://www.cdc.gov/tb/publications/factsheets/general/tb.htm https://www.cdc.gov/tb/publications/factsheets/general/tb.ht...

anoonmoose 3y ago
If her case was latent and she wasn't a danger of spreading the disease, my understanding is that her lungs wouldn't be so ravaged that they look like she has late stage lung cancer under an x-ray. And others have pointed out your 2-3 year number is weird and not terribly accurate as well.
- lettergram 3y ago
  The case is from 2021 (ruling Jan 2022) meaning her rejection of treatment had to be prior to that. She had to have TB even before that. It’s fair to assume she got it mid-2021 or earlier
  - anoonmoose 3y ago
    ok so now that the minor disagreement about dates has been resolved, how about the major disagreement over evidence her disease is not latent?
nerdchum 3y ago
There's now Antibiotic resistant TB and if we keep using antibiotics for TB were risking creating more AB resistant strains. It's best if people don't get infected with it to begin with Antibiotic resistant TB is exponentially scarier to me than COVID.
DoreenMichele 3y ago
There’s a reason TB isn’t an issue any more… And, yet, an article from 3 days ago calls it a global health threat and notes that a million people die from it annually. https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/5/30/23738607/tuberculosis-global-health-threat-public-health-sheela-shenoi-op-ed https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/5/30/23738607/tuberculosis...