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Also, illness and mortality was far more definitive prior to modern medical breakthroughs. Prior to world war 2, getting ill from a wide range of highly deadly
by kazen44 7y ago
Also, illness and mortality was far more definitive prior to modern medical breakthroughs.
Prior to world war 2, getting ill from a wide range of highly deadly or incapacitating diseases (polio for example) was quite common and far more fatal then it is today.
The culture around mortality has changed a lot in my opinion.
- Someone 7y agoAlso, “highly deadly” included any serious open wound (open leg fracture, for example), stepping into a rusty nail or even getting a serious cold. I think pneumonia, the flu, tuberculosis and diphtheria killed more people than polio (https://www.ncdemography.org/2014/06/16/mortality-and-cause-of-death-1900-v-2010/ https://www.ncdemography.org/2014/06/16/mortality-and-cause-... doesn’t even mention it)
- benibela 7y agoTuberculosis did not go away. World wide it still kills 1.5 million people / year and 25% of the population is infected.