Back Lung is back. Once nearly eradicated, the disease is back and suffocating younger miners

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/well/black-lung-appalachia-coal-miners.html?unlocked_article_code=1.yFA.M94q.uGRLvbs_qaE0

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Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 42d (2 replies)

Ah the good ole days, gay folks beaten and in the closet, trans folks dead, and men dying in the mines.

We're great now

wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 42d (1 reply)

dying* 😶

Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 42d

Corrected

Dialectical_Specialist@quokk.au · 4 pts · 42d

Black lung*

jdf038@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 42d

That disease is a woke liberal hoax. I dont believe this article.