Withholding medical treatments for profit? Allowing media to knowingly lie about the risks and benefits of medical treatments for short term financial gains?
We could’ve a world without TB not just a few nation states without it. Pathogens don’t recognize lines on maps unless draconian border security prevents all hosts from crossing said lines. I don’t think you want to close all sea- and airports, built and maintain a continuous line of watch towers and minefields, enforce shoot to kill orders and pay for it all right? It wouldn’t just be immoral and stupid, but also more expensive (in case you don’t give a fuck about people that don’t look like your immediate family).
> I don’t think you want to close all sea- and airports, built and maintain a continuous line of watch towers and minefields, enforce shoot to kill orders and pay for it all right? It wouldn’t just be immoral and stupid, but also more expensive
Quite. But some people here do seem to want this.
TB is not a moral disease (there are no such), not a disease of immigrants (when I worked in Edinburgh in the 1970s it was all over the place among Scots), and is very treatable if you can a) pay for the quite cheap treatment and b) educate people to keep taking it. You can also immunise against it.
The second highest is Hawaii. I think it's interesting that the two highest states are states that are so different from each other.
They are both disconnected from the other 48 states, but so is Puerto Rico and Puerto Rico's TB rate would put it around 45th lowest if it were a state so I don't think being disconnected has anything to do with it.
Strange — I could seemingly post comments, but not submit an article. (Tried right before making the previous comment.) Is article submission weighed differently?
Could you please stop posting in the flamewar style? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.
If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful. We've had to ask you this more than once before.
