Somebody needs to ask RFK Jr this:

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73. I knew a fellow who was a

teacher and in his childhood he had polio and thankfully survived but one arm was forever impaired and was the same size as his narrow wrist all the way to his shoulder. I can remember my grandparents and great grandparents talking about tuberculosis and people going to quarantine in sanitariums. About half would never survive to ever leave the sanitarium. Vaccines changed all of that although there is a resurgence now with resistant strains. Over 1 million people still die every year from tuberculosis.

I remember my Grandmother telling me that when she was a child she remembered the panic that would come when someone thought they just had a cold but would begin to have little bits of blood in their cough. You knew. Those around you knew and because of the easy transmission by air those living with the person knew they may well come down with it.

Back centuries ago households used to think of what they called "consumption" as coming from vampires. As one would get sick and then the next it was thought that the earlier one was draining the life out of the others. Those are the kinds of times RFK Jr. and Alito hark back to as the "good old days".