Does she mean tape worm? What the hell does she mean? Ring worm is relatively minor skin infection. It is completely unrelated to poverty.
She’s an idiot.
quote from miss marmelstein: “Does she mean tape worm? What the hell does she mean?”
She likely means “hookworm.” See wiki, for example, for some basic info. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hookworm_infection
Accusing US Southerners of having hookworm infection is common from Northeners and other elitists who want to belittle the South. Back in the late 80’s, I heard a lecture from a UK physician at a top medical school saying that the stereotypical slow-speaking, dull-witted, unhealthy US Southerner in his natural habitat was due to hookworm infection—because of Southerners going barefoot in warm-weather wet/rainy areas where outhouses and outdoor defection and no (or inadequate) public waste systems are the NORM (need to pay more taxes, huh!?), then Southerners contact the hookworm larvae from hatched eggs in the haphazardly-shed or inadequately treated feces of other infected Southerners, and the larvae burrow into the feet skin, then get into the fluid channels of the body, and eventually end up in the digestive tract where they mature and set up housekeeping and wreak havoc on the Southerners, including causing malnutrition and iron-deficiency anemia. Oh, and also diarrhea and parasite-laden feces to infect more people with. Hence the slow, barefoot, sick, anemic, idiotic, hot/muggy weather Southerner stereotype.
Aren’t we so lucky to have such a wonderful, educated, intelligent, caring, inclusion/diversity-supporting being (AOC) to show us what Democrats/Northerners/Elitists think about Southerners (red-state folk)?
Hey, at least she knows Alabama is in the Southern USA.