Infectious disease killing 1.5 million every year!!!!

[ExmoorPony]

TB kills 1.5 million every single year. Just sayin......

Here’s a link OP:

www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/tuberculosis

” But TB is curable and preventable“

Sadly at the moment COVID is not quite there, and there’s currently no vaccine, plus it’s mutating.

I do see where you are coming from though.

There is a vaccine for TB.

That being said, I think Covid has been sensationalised.

How many do you think covid19 would have killed if we hadn't had lockdown?

What is your point?

I think covid will hit the million mark in 2020. And it would have been more without lockdowns and other measures.

More people will die today from flu than covid 19. 30 men will die of prostate cancer today....

Logic has no place in this pandemic

I agree, whilst Covid is obviously currently a huge threat things like this get it in perspective. Despite TB having a vaccine and being curable, people still die in these massive numbers. Losing your shit over infectious illnesses causing death is the epitome of privilege in wealthier countries, when many people live with these threats year in year out and still will once Covid has faded into the background

This was my friend’s argument for not worrying about Covid. She quoted the same statistic about TB. My friend is also an anti-vaxxer and needless to say, she plans to refuse any Covid vaccine. Her words were “they’d have to strap me down”.

The trouble with breaking the social distancing/test and trace measures, is that if someone dies as a result, it probably won’t be you.

More people will die today from flu than covid 19. 30 men will die of prostate cancer today....

Again. You're missing the point of lockdown

Without lockdown millions of people in Europe alone would have died of covid19 and crucially this would have happened within the space of a few weeks. The health, and other services would have collapsed under the pressure.

What part of this don't people understand?

@ExmoorPony

More people will die today from flu than covid 19. 30 men will die of prostate cancer today....

Is prostate cancer, or indeed any cancer, infectious?

If you can’t work out the difference in impacts from TB and Cancer compared to Covid.....then that’s worrying really!

🤦🏻‍♀️ are people this stupid! TB is preventable and treatable, flu has a vaccine, cancer is not infectious!!!!!!

@ExmoorPony

More people will die today from flu than covid 19. 30 men will die of prostate cancer today....

Because of lockdown. If we disn't do the lockdown/masks/distancing thing it would be more.

If TB is preventable and treatable, it's even more of global scandal that we are not bothering, isn't it, considering that we've stopped the world for covid.
And actually multi-drug resistent TB is an ever-increasing issue.

@BashfulClam

🤦🏻‍♀️ are people this stupid! TB is preventable and treatable, flu has a vaccine, cancer is not infectious!!!!!!

All very true but right now it seems that only Covid matters.

"Covid matters" because without lockdown it would overwhelm the health services.

Why can't people understand this simple concept?

Have you polished your whataboutery badge?

Yes That's very sad and that's why western governments could be provided more aid packages so that everyone in emerging economies can access the vaccine that could save their lives.

Mrs Bloggs on Bangladesh is at risk from TB and covid so when the covid vaccine does come I hope it will be made available to everyone everywhere.

Yes, and babies born in areas of the UK with a high TB rate are offered vaccinations against it.

I am not sure your point. Do you want us to fundraise so TB injections are more widely available?

Maxnormal I totally agree. Do we actually care about saving lives or not?

The point is that without lockdown (anywhere) we don't know what would have happened however the modelling is that still it would not kill as many as tb. Covid is novel so people had no immunity hence high death tolls in the very vulnerable but it's actually far less deadly in disease terms, we don't know exactly due to lack of testing in March/April but it seems even without a vaccine or treatment it kills at a lower rate than seasonal flu.

Governments will never admit they were wrong to shut down the economies, but in retrospect they should have isolated the vulnerable especially care homes in early March and let the rest of us catch it, public health is about the greater good. I had it in March as did dp, means I can get on with living now

On the positive side, it is nice that so many more people are now concerned about global healthcare inequality. Presumably all the people who are posting numbers of people who die from TB and malaria aren’t just posting about it on MN and are actively trying to find ways of supporting the organisations who work to prevent these deaths...

So far in 8 months covid has killed 900 000 and that is with lockdowns, social distancing and masks. Without measures the death toll would already be much higher than TB. I don’t really see what people don’t understand.

@JS87

So far in 8 months covid has killed 900 000 and that is with lockdowns, social distancing and masks. Without measures the death toll would already be much higher than TB. I don’t really see what people don’t understand.

People do understand. The point is that this isn’t going to be every year. Covid will be brought under control like other pandemics and drift into the background. Meanwhile people will still be dying in their millions of diseases that are preventable and curable. Year after year after year once we’ve long pushed Covid to the back of our minds. That’s the point I was making about privilege. No one here gives a shit about deaths of poor people from TB/malaria etc, but when it affects richer countries all hell breaks loose. We’ve been totally shielded from living with the effects of infectious diseases. Millions around the world don’t have that luxury