This semester, I am taking a medical sociology class. Today's class, we were going over the history of medical care!
It brought my mind back to an idiotic thing I kept from hearing that anti-immigration fanatic talk show host Mike Savage! Savage blames immigrants from Asia and Latin America for bringing in disease!
But what Savage NEVER addresses is the fact that Europeans brought diseases to the Americas and the Pacific - diseases that ended up killing many natives.
But Savage will ignore all that! To him, diseases are bad only when they kill Euro-Americans. But if they kill non-whites, Mike Savage doesn't give a dam!
Anyways, back to that medical sociology class. The professor said that stress and going through major life changes increases vulnerability to tuberculosis (TB) He mentioned that the Irish immigrants to the US had higher rates of TB than those Irish who remained in Ireland. Same with Asians, Asian immigrants have higher rates of TB than Asians who remain in Asia. Same with Native Americans forced into reservations. The massive lifestyle changes immigrants go through can decrease their immunity to TB!
But Mike Savage will ignore those facts because his anti-immigration hysteria has NOTHING to do with saving anyone from diseases. His anti-immigration hysteria is based on hatred towards non-whites!
