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I read somewhere that in the 1600-1700's in England and France they started taxing windows and people bricked them up to avoid the tax. This resulted in an increase in TB rates. When they repealed the law and there were more windows, TB rates went down. Its known that sunlight has an antiseptic effect and kills TB and other germs. TB rates went up a lot in the 1600's in Europe when people started moving into the cities from the farms during the industrial revolution. TB was rare in most other places in the world prior to the 1800's.

I've been thinking that the reason commercial properties have big windows might be because of the germ killing effect of sunlight as well as for illumination. Public buildings, seem to also have to have ventilation systems which might be to help reduce germ levels, including those that cause respiratory diseases, since they've been some of the leading infectious disease killers throughout history. Most diseases, like polio, diptheria, pertussus, measles etc. seem to be easily controllable through vaccination. There is a vaccine for TB which isn't used in the USA, but is used in a lot of foreign countries. It isn't 100% reliable and some people who have had the vaccine still get the disease. TB also easily develops drug resistance. That's why they give patients multiple drugs at the same time. Multi-drug resistance is a big problem worldwide. I read in Lee Reichman's book Timebomb
http://malthus.micro.med.umich.edu/lab/pubs/natrev.pdf
that the reason that drug companies are reluctant to invest in new drugs for curing TB is because they don't see much return on their investment because TB rates are so low in western countries and most of the TB is in poorer countries.

Here's another good book on TB
https://archive.org/details/preventionoftube00news
I have the second edition published in 1910.
 
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oldschooltube said:
That's where it came from!
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It was my signature line for a while.

Wilford Brimley said:
They don't rule it. Nobody does. And they don't run in packs. And while they may not be as strong as apes, don't lock eyes with 'em, don't do it. Puts 'em on edge. They might go into berserker mode; come at you like a whirling dervish, all fists and elbows. You might be screaming "No, no, no" and all they hear is 'Who wants cake?' Let me tell you something: They all do. They all want cake."
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SY said:
Wilford Brimley FTW.
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looks like mr brimley was 'rear ended' by his friend, 'bruce' -



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now dead ....

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no tweets for several years now ...


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Descend, bold traveller, into the crater of the jökull of Snæfell,
which the shadow of Scartaris touches (lit: tastes) before the Kalends of July,
and you will attain the centre of the earth.

I did it.

Arne Saknussemm



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OK.....

"πάντα χωρεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει" καὶ "δὶς ἐς τὸν αὐτὸν ποταμὸν οὐκ ἂν ἐμβαίης"
Panta chōrei kai ouden menei kai dis es ton auton potamon ouk an embaies
"Everything changes and nothing remains still ... and ... you cannot step twice into the same stream"[39]
 
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