Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

by John Green

We are powerful enough to light the world at night, to artificially refrigerate food, to leave Earth’s atmosphere and orbit it from outer space. But we cannot save those we love from suffering. This is the story of human history as I understand it—the story of an organism that can do so much, but cannot do what it most wants.

tuberculosis has come to be seen as a disease of poverty, an illness that walks the trails of injustice and inequity that we blazed for it.

“Nothing is so privileged as thinking history belongs to the past.”

colonial infrastructure was not built to strengthen communities; it was built to deplete them.