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TB has been killing people for thousands of years it doesn't need a weakened immune system jeff either you'll catch it or you'll be an asymptomatic carrier covid or not it doesnt matter

I never heard tuberculosis called the "white plaque" before. Is this a new name they are trying to make a thing?

@graf @jeffcliff Tuberculosis is cringe because it killed Edgar Allen Poes cousin wife.

I assume they want to avoid calling it "tuberculosis" because everyone knows "tuberculosis" is imported along with third worlders and hasn't been a problem in the first world for ages, whereas "white plague" is scary and new and vaguely maligns Europeans, like a marvel villain.

>and hasn't been a problem in the first world for ages
don't mean to jeff cliff your response but there was a 10 million person outbreak just 10 years ago in 2016

here is a good PDF from that year from WHO https://iris.who.int/server/api/core/bitstreams/1ac60f...

edit: europe absolutely booty blasted lmfao

@graf In the novel by Frank Herbert, the titular White Plague only killed women. As long as we quarantine Colleen, fedi will be okay.

@graf @NeoDelorean @WWIII_ENJOYER yeah most cases of tb in the first world are brought as gifts by our lovely migrants from the third world

They are cooking some spicy antibiotic immune variants in their petri dish countries

india and south africa leading the pack lmfao

what the fuck happened in 2004

That was about the time the US ramped up it's fighting operations in the Middle-East.
I'd guess refugees fleeing to the EU and US from northern Africa and the ME.

Mountain Dew Baja Blast was introduced in 2004

@WWIII_ENJOYER @NeoDelorean @graf also, as clickbait. If you see a headline like "Tuberculosis is on the rise", you say: oh, well that's a shame. People know about TB.
With "white plague" the response is more likely: THE FUCKING WHAT? WHAT IS THAT?

That was my initial response