idk, I heard this book was written by the same guy that wrote The Fault in Our Stars. I was only trying to learn about astronomy and here Everything Is Tuberculosis claims to be about disease. Can I trust it or am I going to finish this book, too, feeling like I've finished an emotional journey?
Congratulations! I had TB in 2011... it was fine though, six months of antibiotics and it was gone. But it's a really bad disease if it's not treated soon enough, and really persistent. I live in Rio, which is one of the Brazilian cities with the highest numbers of cases.
I guess it takes a toll on your liver, but I didn't drink back then, so it was fine. It's worth it to be sure you don't get the nasty kind of tb. And the antibiotics are free in Brazil, by the way.
It was gone in three weeks, but they want to be super duper sure it's gone, so everyone has to take it for six months. Because if it isn't gone, it comes back resistant to the antibiotics, then that's where you're really in trouble.
We just covered TB in my med school classes and I do some street medicine work with high-risk populations, so I’m SO excited to read this when it’s available at the library!!! (asked my mom for my own copy for my birthday but I have to wait till August 😔😔)
I feel this is my bones! I am promoting people to care for their health.... and it isnt an easy time right now. I have advised spite as a motivator and that has worked for some!
@paytmitch.bsky.social, John *does* have experience as an unpaid intern for the Awesome Coffee Club... maybe he could be *your* unpaid intern? You'd have an assistant! And that way people could yell at @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social instead of you!
Promoting is the art of finding the good in literally anything, no matter how predominantly bad it. But I do say "a book on educating and supporting eradication of the deadliest infectious disease on the planet" sounds like a thing that is 99.9% good.
I do event gigs. I haven’t had the stomach to “sell” since the pandemic, but I can’t imagine doing it now. I think about how hard it must be every time someone I follow has to sell their wares.
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Thank you Green brothers for restoring our faith in humanity so many times over through the years.
Wishing you all the best with your book launch John.
Congratulations on the new book and keep up all your good work. 💐
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There's a LOT of measles.