Funerary portraits from ancient Egypt are so, so revealing. Not least for the fact that most people on them died young by out standards.
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Replying to @FreyjaErlings
Egypt did not have higher mortality rates than the rest of the world. This was just how it was. People died young.
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Replying to @FreyjaErlings
Today, Icelanders are shocked Americans don't make it to 70, on average. Imagine the luxury we moderners live in.
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Replying to @FreyjaErlings @AndriErlingsson
Hard to accept that before antibiotics "You catch a bad fever and you die" was a normal thing that just happened
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AndriErlingsson
No one cared abt a cure for cancer or had a consistent name for cancer bc it was infectious disease that usually got you first
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AndriErlingsson
Sanitation, antibiotics, etc have beaten back germs so much that we now have a new set of bogeymen, diseases of age like cancer
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AndriErlingsson
So much so that when there is a germ that might kill people en masse it makes headline news
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AndriErlingsson
And so much so that ppl are willingly dropping one of the major weapons against germs (vaccines)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AndriErlingsson
Bc to them the names of dragons of the past (measles, mumps, pox) sound mythical
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And that's just germs. Never mind other stuff that used to just happen all the time like violent death
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Replying to @FreyjaErlings @AndriErlingsson
Yeah or straight up starvation and malnutrition
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