ask any old-timer about polio, and why we don't worry about it as much now.
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Well, maybe not any old-timer...a lot have fallen into that conspiracy black hole
"Going natural" is a shitty euphemism for anti-vax. Call it what it is.
Where's that tweet where an anti-vaxxer used the bubonic plague as an example of a disease that went away on its own.
Right, like uhh you know the average life span for a healthy male used to be 25 years right? Did you think that was for no reason? Smfh.
Did you think 90 years passed and suddenly the life span tripled?
The idiocy
Edit: to make sure some of the responses aren't misunderstanding my point - medicine.
Scientific advances. Technology, research, people knowing how to literally wash their fucking hands added years to the lifespan.
And yes it has tripled in some cases. 18th century France the life expectancy was twenty four years old.
This increase to what we see today is LARGELY due to medical care and sanitation alone.
It's all over the board back then, in fact, because of sanitation. Diseases would.come and go and life expentencies would sink like a tanker because sanitation was non existent.
So yes I exaggerated the time span, obviously, but I wasn't kidding about the tripling part - if a bit vaguely.
25, that is quite a historical extreme, isn't it?
In the wild, average live span was around 40 to 50 years. There's even studies about the evolutional reasons why we live longer than other primates/why we are the only hominide with grandparents.
Sure, it is an extreme. As in my edit I stated: this is due to sanitation. It is all over the board throughout the 15th-18th century world because pandemics/diseases/epidemics came and went and sanitation was so low and medicine was so bad that people dropped like flies, and thus did the life expentency average.
In particular, my "25 year l.e." example was about 18th century France.
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Yeah you know what else is all natural? Air. But guess what you don't inject into your blood?
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Well that's just lying be omission. Lots of people were disabled or disfigured too.
Those make sense to me, but I'll be honest with you, where I struggle is with the idea of sunscreen. How did our ancestors live outside constantly without any sunscreen but if I'm outside for more than 2 hours in the summer without it I come home looking like a burnt lobster?
I'm sure the answer is that I'm ignorant, or the "natural causes" of yesteryear were really just undiagnosed skin cancer or something, but I have to admit it does seem like a real negative adaptation here from the viewpoint of my uneducated mind.
We need sunscreen becuase we're indoors 8 and months of the year, then run out naked to sunbathe.
If we were outside more and naturally built up a tan it really wouldn't be that much of an issue for most people.
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Maybe people didn't live long enough for skin cancer to make a difference?
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Still better than getting the vaccines that cause you to eat the Bill Gates Fake Peach Tree dish meat.
Edit: This was intended to be a joke. https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2022/05/30/did-marjorie-taylor-greene-say-peach-tree-dish-instead-of-petri-dish/
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