Did TB Cause World War I?

Hi. In a shocking turn of events, I made a video about tuberculosis. Also, I have written an op-ed for the Washington Post about tuberculosis, which came out today. It's about a young man I met at the Lakka TB hospital in Sierra Leone in 2019, what happened to him, and why. Thanks for reading it: wapo.st/458l2m2 -John

That’s so cute and sweet that Henry heard that story and thought “wow dad would love to hear that”, friends and family members who feed into your hyperfixation are the best

Never stop talking about the historical and current impact of tuberculosis, John. I will always enjoy these, thank you

I for one am ready for John to host Crash Course: Health History - a thorough reading of how disease has shaped human society.

That very specific conflicted feeling when cultural experience tells you that the answer to almost every clickbait headline which ends with a question mark is “no,” yet all other Nerdfighter experience tells you that somehow everything John wants to talk about exists as the result of tuberculosis. pain. Oh and Happy Tuesday. ☺️

My mere existence is because of the tuberculosis. My grandad had it and my grandma kept visiting him in the hospital. He came to the conlusion that she must really love him and started the romantic pursuit once - to everyone's surprise - he regained his health. He was from a poor family and wouldn't have flirted with her without the Yolo experience you get from almost losing your life in an early age. My grandma is now 96 but he has already gone to the other side.

John's Tuberculosis hobby is totally a deliberate attempt to permanently free himself from the 4:00 constraint of vlogbrothers videos.

My god, 25% more John today!

Fun fact: the bomb that was thrown didn’t miss, the Archdukes’ body guard batted it away from the car but sadly he hit it directly into the car behind them. Also the Archduke and his wife were the ones who wanted to go back out, they demanded to go to the hospital to see the victims of the bombing… Extra credits has a really good video on this

I partly exist because of TB. My Nan in Ireland was due to marry a local boy, but his family decided against it because of the contamination stigma and belief it made women infertile. She was given the treatments available at the time which meant being sent alone to another city away from her family for over a year. She recovered (with horrible treatment scars she had to hide), but moved to London so the stigma wouldn’t follow her and she could have a shot at marriage. Then she met my grandfather who wouldn’t have been able to marry in Ireland either as he was raised in the Christian brothers orphanage.

John, it's because of you, that the whole time I walked around the Surgeons Hall museum in Edinburgh with my friend I shouted "TUBERCULOSIS" every time I saw it on one of the object labels, which was an awful lot.

Historian here. I actually just put together a lecture for a college class on this topic. This is all pretty accurate, except the driver kinda gets sold short: in reality, he wasn’t informed of a change in route, which is why he had to reverse. He car didn’t stall, but had to be manually pushed backwards because it’s 1914 and cars aren’t very fancy yet.

Johnbot in 2046 : "Did tuberculosis start the Machine uprising?"

You know, just this morning I was thinking "it's been a few months since John last talked about TB, I wonder when he'll bring it up again" It's hasn't been the same with you it

I have an old button from the 80s that says, “War doesn’t decide who’s right, only who’s left,” but I don’t think that makes it inevitable. I hope someday we learn that lesson. John, thank you for another thought-provoking post!

Time for a Crash Course World History entirely about Tuberculosis.

What boggles my mind: my Mom had TB as a child. She is now 70. Her lung scares both lung doctors and radiologist, but she is mostly fine now. She was in hospital for almost a year and they removed a big part of her lung, but I never really realized how amazing it is that she can live the life she does.

Love learning more about TB from you (I guess today from Henry) and hearing you discuss world history is such a wonderful callback to the days where I watched crash course world history to study for ap world history. It’s wild that I’m in law school now and still listening to you and hank teach me new things.

I just bought the anthropocene reviewed, I’m really excited to see what it has to offer! TFIOS was life changing for me, I remember feeling so alone in my teen years and I felt like no one else understood me, the book was one of the few things that kept me going. It’s still my favorite book, Thank you for sharing it with the world. I wanted to say you’re my favorite author too but I think I already established that fact. :)

Your Washington post article was real good!! Sorry the comments on it are a disaster