They call it TB on paper because silicosis gets you compensation, which no owner wants to pay, and no officer wants the headache of counting. So the disease vanishes into a dusty file. My appa, he coughed for years after working in that quarry near our town—doctor’s certificate said tuberculosis, and we believed it. Only later, when his old co-worker got a proper test in the city, we understood; they renamed his struggle to avoid the price.
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