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Re: Way to go Tavern Dwellers and Sturgis Rubes

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On Sunday, January 24, 2021 at 5:30:03 PM UTC-6, barbie gee wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jan 2021, Cydrome Leader wrote: 
> 
> > Sticks <Wolve...@charter.net> wrote: 
> >> On 1/10/2021 12:08 AM, barbie gee wrote: 
> >> 
> >>> I am old enough to remember when people still talked about TB as a 
> >>> "thing".?? I remember I had a friend whose dad was really skinny, smoked, 
> >>> and was always coughing.?? My ma would say shit about how, "maybe he has 
> >>> TB".?? I suspect that in cultures where people smoke freely, coughing is 
> >>> a pretty normal thing.?? Hard to separate smoker hacking from TB hacking, 
> >>> I believe. 
> >> 
> >> Actually, no. Smokers cough is dry cough. TB cough is closer to and 
> >> usually classified with whooping cough or Pertussis. Much more violent 
> >> and often persistent. But it is quite effective to use the fear of 
> >> possible TB infection to ostracize the segment of the population who 
> >> still thinks they have the right to smoke. First act as if they have 
> >> COVID by placing your hand over your mask, maybe doubling them up. Then 
> >> whisper about possible TB. I suggest also a campaign claiming smoking 
> >> causes TB. Doesn't matter if it is true. Just say it is, we've proven 
> >> how effective this is at getting the Genie back in the bottle. 
> > 
> > that's even more petty than gasphing "we're trying to breath" around a 
> > smoker, like some old women used to do. Luckily, it seems like smoking as 
> > a whole is down in the US. kids are too busy with their phones to take up 
> > smoking, since that sort of ties up one hand. millennial skin and hands 
> > aren't strong enough to operate a safety lighter anyways. That's why they 
> > vape fruity stuff like cherry vanilla juice. 
> > 
> > I can't say I can tell a smoker from a good old case of whooping cough. 
> > I'll add that to things to check out on youtube.
> Exactly. That's why anyone with a chronic hacking cough was supected of 
> TB. Smoking was still considered okay, no detriment to your health, so 
> why else would you cough if not TB?

With TB the city had nice Sanitoriums by the Lake patients could go to.
Larry closed the beaches in 2020.

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Way to go Tavern Dwellers and Sturgis Rubes JG Rove <jgrove24@hotmail.com> - 2020-11-14 15:33 -0800
  Re: Way to go Tavern Dwellers and Sturgis Rubes sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> - 2020-11-15 19:56 -0600
    Re: Way to go Tavern Dwellers and Sturgis Rubes Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> - 2020-11-16 06:22 +0000
      Re: Way to go Tavern Dwellers and Sturgis Rubes sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> - 2020-11-16 15:14 -0600
        Re: Way to go Tavern Dwellers and Sturgis Rubes Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> - 2020-12-12 07:14 +0000
          Re: Way to go Tavern Dwellers and Sturgis Rubes barbie gee <booger@nosespam.com> - 2021-01-10 00:08 -0600
            Re: Way to go Tavern Dwellers and Sturgis Rubes Sticks <Wolverine01@charter.net> - 2021-01-10 15:51 -0600
              Re: Way to go Tavern Dwellers and Sturgis Rubes Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> - 2021-01-14 19:20 +0000
                Re: Way to go Tavern Dwellers and Sturgis Rubes barbie gee <booger@nosespam.com> - 2021-01-24 17:26 -0600
                Re: Way to go Tavern Dwellers and Sturgis Rubes JG Rove <jgrove24@hotmail.com> - 2021-09-10 10:31 -0700
  Re: Way to go Tavern Dwellers and Sturgis Rubes JG Rove <jgrove24@hotmail.com> - 2020-11-18 17:38 -0800
    Re: Way to go Tavern Dwellers and Sturgis Rubes sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> - 2020-11-18 20:39 -0600

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