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Life is unsafe. I suspect you would be at a much much much higher risk from not having ready access to medicine and doctors than PFAS.

• throw8383833jj 4y ago
  Or at higher risk from having access to medicine and doctors. The overuse of medicine as the solution to everything is causing a lot of harm. A pill for every ill. In the US, it's not uncommon for people to be taking 7 different pills at once! I don't think people lived like this 100 years ago.
  • TylerE 4y ago
    People died young from totally treatable Illnesses 100 years ago. Being diabetic was basically a death sentence
  • qzw 4y ago
    100 years ago people sat in rotting whale carcasses to cure their ailments[0]. People have actually always taken weird crap for whatever ailed them because we’re pretty fragile creatures with many afflictions. I’ll gladly trade dying of simple cuts and strep throat for modern medicine, even if I have to take 7 different pills at once. [0] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/prescription-rheumatism-used-be-sit-inside-rotting-whale-30-hours-180950335/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/prescription-rheum...