All right, wait a minute. As usual there is an FR tendency to go overboard.
TB did not need any activity or lack of activity by Democrats to be what it is.
TB has likely killed more people in the history of the world than any other disease. The disease that is closing that gap and will soon overtake it is cancer. TB used to kill off people before they could get cancer.
It’s pleasant to swagger and praise our great great grandparents for their pioneering spirit that moved the US population westward, but the truth is . . . a good quality study emerged in the 1800s indicating that the purity of air impacted how long TB patients could live.
And so brochures from Denver and California cities and others got printed and sent to east coast cities under the splashed lead text GO WEST YOUNG MAN!!!
So 20 year olds headed west for the fresh air. It wasn’t pioneering spirit. It was TB. (Then when they got there the cities tried to push them out into distant suburbs, but that’s another story)
TB was originally thought to be inherited — because it was striking in families. Only later did it become clear it hit families because they lived under the same roof and breathed the same air. Infection, btw, requires prolonged exposure, like living under the same roof. It’s far less infectious than Covid Delta.
Note all this was happening without the contributions of Joe Biden.
Antibiotics then became the treatment of magic. Those plus longer life expectancy is what is letting cancer catch up.
The item in the article about availability of medication without a prescription is interesting. It is a huge plus for those societies. The pharmacists tell customers what drugs would work against various problems. The problem is those customers don’t take the meds all the way to empty bottle, and that is a procedure not limited to those countries. Americans do that, too, to save money by having the remaining pills available for next time.
That also happens without involvement by Joe Biden.
If you leave our malaria.
I seriously doubt TB has killed more then the plague.
The open border **is** Joe Biden’s fault. A well regulated border would prevent those with TB from entering the U.S.