• cattywampas@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    This is what gets me about the sentiment of “humans lived for hundreds of thousands of years without toothpaste/sunscreen/antibiotics/vaccines/etc and we were just fine!”

    My dude, we were most definitely not fine. A lot of people died painful and preventable deaths, many of them children, and we’re around today because existing that way was just good enough to keep us going as a species.

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      “They were just fine!” You mean that the 40-60% of people who lived past 15 were just fine until about 50-70?