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[–] [email protected] 82 points 2 months ago (3 children)

"The CDC is recommending citizens do a colon cleanse and to make appointments to consult with their acupuncturists to see if a chakra alignment may be needed."

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

If it's Kansas City Missouri it'll be chiropractors.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If that doesn't work than just attach two leeches to each nipple for 2 hours every day until the fever subsides.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

For really persistent cases, please use the emergency crystals.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

...and for the final cleaning, shove a UV lamp down your throat until it exits your butthole.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I sincerely expect future historians (if there are any) to have a specific name for this particular period in American history - something like "The idiot Age" or "The Faceplant Years."

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago

Pretty sure we had "The Information Age". Seems trivial to call this "The Misinformation Age".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Nah, the face plant years are where you just skip the hand and directly slam your face into the nearest surface because of the off-the-charts level of absurdity you're hearing. More fitting for the current state of things.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

The Trump Decline.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

The gas leak decades

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Pretty soon they'll start calling it the Spanish Tuberculosis

[–] zipzoopaboop 9 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The article says nothing about why.

I know it's newsweek but could they, y'know, make an effort?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They'll just say something stupid like "God's Will" lmao. Probably RFK's message as well.

EDIT: Poking around the CDC cites: "socioeconomic and disrupted health care access during the pandemic as key factors" for TB spreading without being caught.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Much in line with other commenters statements about socioeconomic factors, I submit this hyper-local diss: “Crimedotte

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Red State problems call RFK for a solution ASAP.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

I wonder how long we'll even be able to know any informed details about such things under donvict.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Any adult who dies had it coming for being a willing idiot. I just hope it doesn't impact any kids

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Treatment is available for both active and latent TB infections and involves a several-month regimen of antibiotics. Active TB patients are typically non-contagious after 10 days of treatment.

I imagine there are poor and underprivileged groups that find it harder to access and sustain this treatment than others - homeless people, for example. Seems a bit harsh to call them willing idiots.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm all pro-vaccine and all, but this isn't something that we commonly vaccinate against.

So how are adults that die from it willing idiots?

The only assumption I can make is that they didn't seek medical care when they were sick? That's probably more on the problems with the cost of the medical system than it is on people's individual choices.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

"There’s a vaccine available for tuberculosis. However, it’s not commonly given in the United States. One reason why is that tuberculosis is no longer as common in the United States as it once was."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah! What do Americans live in, a for-profit medical system or something?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Remember to stake the heart or cut off the head to prevent those who die of consumption from coming back to feast on the living

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It was only a matter of time before most of humanity got wiped out by a virulent disease. I just thought it would take a good year or two.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well at least TB was a predictable option for a world ending disease

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Most deadly infectious disease, world champion going strong.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Only because rich countries don’t provide poor countries with antibiotics needed to fight it.

TB is a bacterial infection. It is easily diagnosed and treated with even substandard attention from a doctor.

The fact that it’s spreading so rapidly in America is highly concerning not because TB is super infectious, but because it’s so easy to treat and prevent.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Antibiotics are becoming less and less effective and drug-resistant TB already exists.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Nah, I'm holding out for H5N9.

[–] zipzoopaboop 3 points 2 months ago

Oh shit, someone hide Roger Clark ASAP

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Ain't nobody got time for that!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

What is "blessed" exactly? Is it like luck?