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[RockRaven]

1. We certainly do have idiots, but I don't get it why this is an illustration of such.

Certainly I may be missing something. But if the quip is about vaccines, I would like to share:

The BCG vaccine (the only vaccine available for TB) isn't generally given in the US. The reason for that is not because of anti-vaxxism but because TB rates are low. Most of Europe doesn't use BCG vaccines these days either, also because of their currently low TB rates. That behavior is in line with WHO recommendations.

Incidentally, BCG administration complicates screening with PPD (aka Mantoux) tests, a highly useful tool. Different countries have different approaches to dealing with that. But it is a thing which must be considered.

[Coventina]

2. TB is not a disease that you can victim blame. We don't vaccinate for it.

TB is so rare in the US that the vaccine isn't normally given.

I'm currently reading the fascinating book "Everything is Tuberculosis." It's a real eye-opener!

Did you know that TB has killed one in seven human beings who have EVER LIVED!?!?!
Crazy statistic!

I actually EXIST because of TB. My great-grandfather moved from Amityville, NY to Phoenix AZ because he had TB.
"Come West and Live!" said the advertisements, so he did.
However, he eventually succumbed to the disease.

But, because he came here (this was well over 100 years ago), his son met and married my grandmother, whose family lived here in Phoenix.

What we now call the town of Paradise Valley, one of the most expensive places in the United States, began as a sanatorium town of TB hospitals. All those hoity-toity resorts? They were all sanatoriums about 70 years ago.