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Everything is Tuberculosis [1] answers just that. Essentially it boils down to staggering wealth inequality and the aftershocks of colonialism . The west “cure
by hamaluik 1y ago
Everything is Tuberculosis [1] answers just that. Essentially it boils down to staggering wealth inequality and the aftershocks of colonialism
. The west “cured” TB 70 years ago then stopped caring about it. There isn’t a enough profit in preventing a million deaths a year in the rest of the world, so we just.. don’t.
[1]: https://everythingistb.com/ https://everythingistb.com/
- tekla 1y agoOh yes, the billions of dollars and decades of work specifically for the 3rd world to fight TB never happened and the cash was burned in a big bonfire.
- sepositus 1y agoThe premise sounds interesting, but it seems a bit reductionist if it boils down to that, no? Is the book looking at it through the lens of government actions or private charities? I'm not aware of any evidence that suggests charities simply stopped operating because of capitalism.
- hamaluik 1y agoThe book includes privates charities and governments, but looks at TB through many more lenses than just those. There is a reason it’s a whole book and not just a comment on an Internet forum. I just finished the book and highly recommend the read, if only to learn about something that I suspect most of us (myself at least, certainly), is known only as _history_, not the raging health crisis that is continues to be.
- sepositus 1y agoSounds interesting, I'll add it to my list. Appreciate the response.