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count the times you took anti-biotics, cut yourself deep enough or needed surgery (from bad teeth to things like an appendectomy) - if anything of those applies
by pinaceae 11y ago
count the times you took anti-biotics, cut yourself deep enough or needed surgery (from bad teeth to things like an appendectomy) - if anything of those applies, you would very likely have died in the good old days.
my eye sight requires contact lenses, without i cannot survive.
there is a reason earth only had a minimal population at that time. the current billions of people are only possible through the modern marvels of medicine, agriculture, etc.
- k__ 11y agohehe, true. I had Meningitis when I was about one year old and a double Pneumonia when I was about twelve. But nothing happened in my adult life.
- mamon 11y agoThe increase in population size has much more to do with technical advancements in farming and food processing that with medicine. Main limiting factor was amount of food available, not diseases.
- hendryau 11y agoMost people's eyes are affected by modern lifestyle (all day staring at a computer screen). Eyes are muscles, use 'em or lose 'em. Looking at a two dimensional plane all day instead of constantly focusing on things at varying distances makes your eyes weaker. I bet a lot of us devs who wear glasses now and have terrible eyesight would have been better off in the olden days in terms of vision health.
- pinaceae 11y agoi was 5 years old when they mounted ashtrays on my face due to really bad astigmatism. my family only had a black and white tv back then, i didn't watch much tv until much later in life. not entirely sure your theory applies, to me at least. i think you see much more people with bad eyesight nowadays as life/nature does not kill us off immediately. with minimal corrections we can be productive members of society (unlike 5k years ago).