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[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.