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Warning of rising cases in London TB hotspot where 44 in every 100,000 residents have infection
(www.standard.co.uk)
This is entirely the right wings' fault
this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2026
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The demographics of that area make your statement extremely unlikely to be true.
It's almost as if the abstraction of "left and right" is oversimplified to be actually useful. Anyways, just because it's mainly the 'right' who spread the misinformation, doesn't mean that the 'left' doesn't consume it.
why that's almost 22 for every 50,000!
The thing with tb tho is that 22 could be 22,000 right quick.
To anyone who thinks this is an exaggeration, remember my coworkers:
Most believe vaccines will kill you before old age does
Most believe doctors are never going to provide a real cure because then they'd be out of a job
Most believe masks make more people sick than they keep from getting sick
And most disgustingly, most of the guys I work with don't wash their hands and the ones that do usually just wash BEFORE they go, and then put their hands all over things in the bathroom, even before lunch.
If my coworkers are like this, imagine how many more people all around you every day are like that, or worse.
I mean, I just see how people treat public toilets in general to let me know that the percentage of people keen to leave the world in a better place they found it is in the single digits