Man Locked Up for Crime of TB

[level.eleven]

The inability for anarchists to recognize a societal benefit is why it has never flourished. Bootstraps don't always correlate with a livable society.

 

[churchmouse]

Didn't you know? He faked his death so he could escape notoriety and he lived a quite life as a mail clerk in Joplin Missouri. He died at the age of 85 in 1936. One thing that many don't know is that Doc never really did have TB, he just smoked a lot.

And drank like a fish, gambled like a fiend, whored with the best of them and shoot a lot of people. Good times.

 

[steveh_131]

The inability for anarchists to recognize a societal benefit is why it has never flourished. Bootstraps don't always correlate with a livable society.

Why do you keep responding to imaginary anarchists? I haven't seen a single anarchist in this thread.

Kirk? Is that you?

 

[Double T]

TB is nasty stuff, and costs LOTS of money to get rid of it. The antibiotics are expensive, the time off work is expensive. The disease itself is pretty treatable, however, the problem lies in that many people only take the ATB's until their symptoms go away. TB ATB's and treatment looks a LOT like rehab. We really don't want it becoming more resistant than it already is. If my memory serves me correctly, TB is standardly treated with multiple ATB's so as to try to prevent it becoming resistant. TB is pretty spectacular at becoming antibiotic resistant, which sucks for trying to treat and prevent the spread of the disease. It's not that someone is being an *******, that "*******" is trying to prevent the disease from becoming truly resistant to our antibiotics.

I am required to have a mantoux annually and upon suspicion of TB exposure. TB spreads pretty quickly in groups of people who are relatively close to each other (schools, office, healthcare facility, etc.) And typically, you don't even have to touch the person to become "exposed" as it's an airborne pathogen.

 

[public servant]

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