Even the white people who answer these questions tend to have a lot of unearned confidence in their genetic resistance to whooping coughhttps://twitter.com/originalspin/status/1333682617590243329 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Everybody also always assumes they'll be upper class. I'm in the first generation in something like 300 years in my family who wasn't born to farmers or laborers, so that's a nope for me even before we go into the lack of antibiotics or vaccines.
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Replying to @KEBrightbill @arthur_affect
And even if you are, you're not exactkly safe: If I look at the aristocratic side of my family (I mean, it's kinda the only side I can look up, nobody bothered writing down the genealogical tree of the Italian Gypsies' side), there's plenty of young deaths.
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Some did lived past 80 years old, but plenty barely made it to forty, and then there's one Pierre François De Weppe born in 1728: guy had eight kids, only one lived long enough to be baptised, and she didn't make it to her first birthday.
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Replying to @Laurent_Weppe @arthur_affect
Yeah, infant mortality rates were high for everyone until pretty recently.
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This dude believes he would survive all this plus two world wars, and then he would enjoy his twilight years or whatever free of PTSD
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WWI vet born in 1900 would be *extremely* demographically vulnerable to the 1918 flu pandemic
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ImpPercyPtible and
Cripes does he know the official name for that generation was the Lost Generation
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