Tuberculosis is hardly “non-threatening.”
It’s a horrible disease that ravages its victims. I remember the rural hospitals in which TB victims were quarantined. I know people whose grandparents and great uncles died from the disease. It’s not a pretty sight, and far worse to experience.
This nation worked incredibly hard to eliminate Third World ravages like polio (I know several, including close family memebers, crippled by it), smallpox, tuberculosis, cholera (another terrible illness), encephalitis, and dengue fever.
Now our political class are rolling the red carpet across the Mexican border to where most of these diseases flourish. At the same time, the incompetent fools that head and staff our “Homeland Security” look away as people they know are infected with these diseases travel on our aircraft and enter our country.
What is wrong with these people?
Very strong agreement!
Further thought, when I was a kid in the 50s my Mom was deathly afraid of TB.
We made so much progress in public health, how can we let it slip away?