Calvin Coolidge Jr. died from sepsis in 1924. He was playing tennis and got a blister on his foot, it was infected and there were no meds to stop the infection.
I used to work in the American medical system and I can speak for hours about all the abuses and stupid mistakes Western medicine can make. But I can do even more on how people hurt themselves by not going to doctors.
There was a fellow who had arm apin and went to a chiropractor. Heart attack.
I've seen people who passed out at work because they were trying to do manual labor and fast for Ramadan. Or people who skipped their meds because of fast days.
I heard an old Rabbi's line. "The Bible is like the daily newspaper. If the newspaper tells you that the President was in New York City last night you know that it's absolutely true. If the newspaper tells you that it's likely to rain tomorrow, you can accept that as very probably right. If the newspaper shows you a little boy with a talking tiger you have to accept the metaphor."
Coolidge Jr got the blister playing tennis barefoot, and probably ignored it until the ensuing staph infection was well underway. People of that time (1924) who paid attention to their little injuries - wash with soap and water, hit it with some alcohol, cover it (i.e. don't keep going barefoot on it) didn't tend to die from them.
Mortality rate was higher than today but life wasn't anywhere near that extreme. Most people don't die from minor untreated infections - that's what our immune system is for.
The number of people in here who think that pre-historical bodies were as frail as city bodies, is very high. The only thing city bodies do well is resist the fettid creep surrounding their lifestyle.
Outside people didn't get sepsis and starve all the time. In that habitat that city people find terrifying, they thrive. They are very very susceptible to the top tier viruses, bacteria, alcohol, sugar, entertainment, and control structures bred by thousands of generations of natural selection in the people pile though.
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theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world · 52 pts · 18d
Actually most of your friends would be gatherers
pip@piefed.social · 38 pts · 18d
Just a fancy name for 'hunters of fruits and berries!'
Apeman42@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 18d
I got a cousin, lost a finger to a jackfruit but he still managed to take the sumbitch down. Dude wears its skin as a helmet now.
MissJinx@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 17d
Idk about you but nothing makes sense to me nowdays too.
Avicenna@programming.dev · 32 pts · 18d
you get a scratch, you die in pain from infection a week later
thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 18d
That's part of "no growing old 😃"
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 14 pts · 18d
Calvin Coolidge Jr. died from sepsis in 1924. He was playing tennis and got a blister on his foot, it was infected and there were no meds to stop the infection.
massive_bereavement@fedia.io · 5 pts · 18d
Tennis: Not even once.
hansolo@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 18d
Bob Marley died from ~~gangrene following a football injury on his toe. ~~ cancer in his toe. Guess I heard it wrong.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 5 pts · 18d
I assume he had 'reasons' not to go to a doctor?
I used to work in the American medical system and I can speak for hours about all the abuses and stupid mistakes Western medicine can make. But I can do even more on how people hurt themselves by not going to doctors.
There was a fellow who had arm apin and went to a chiropractor. Heart attack.
hansolo@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 18d
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 1 pts · 18d
Peg Leg Bates.
Famous one legged dancer Marley would almost certainly ahve heard of.
https://youtu.be/NXesFCMwys0
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 18d
Rastafarianism has a taboo against body modifications.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 2 pts · 18d
I've seen people who passed out at work because they were trying to do manual labor and fast for Ramadan. Or people who skipped their meds because of fast days.
I heard an old Rabbi's line. "The Bible is like the daily newspaper. If the newspaper tells you that the President was in New York City last night you know that it's absolutely true. If the newspaper tells you that it's likely to rain tomorrow, you can accept that as very probably right. If the newspaper shows you a little boy with a talking tiger you have to accept the metaphor."
Rooster326@programming.dev · 1 pts · 17d
He was perfectly entitled to make that decision?
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 18d
Coolidge Jr got the blister playing tennis barefoot, and probably ignored it until the ensuing staph infection was well underway. People of that time (1924) who paid attention to their little injuries - wash with soap and water, hit it with some alcohol, cover it (i.e. don't keep going barefoot on it) didn't tend to die from them.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 18d
Mortality rate was higher than today but life wasn't anywhere near that extreme. Most people don't die from minor untreated infections - that's what our immune system is for.
ICastFist@programming.dev · 2 pts · 17d
If you're lucky, the scratch didn't come with the predator's fangs on your throat
g0d0fm15ch13f@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 18d
I mean you can shit standing up today...
Dagnet@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 18d
Waffle stomping?
grranibal@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 18d
Blue waffle.
lemmygarden@lemmy.today · 21 pts · 18d
I imagined they would be squatting for shits
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 14 pts · 18d
What's stopping you from shitting standing up now?
massive_bereavement@fedia.io · 3 pts · 18d
Low-fiber diet I guess.
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 18d
Failure at hunting for a couple of days means you die of starvation
100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it · 23 pts · 18d
IIRC hunter-gatherers had such varied sources of food and strong food-sharing networks that starvation wasn't so common as one would expect
gibson@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 18d
Yeah I mean it worked well enough to bootstrap to agriculture multiple times around the world
100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it · 1 pts · 17d
And that opened another can of worms.
Trampampoline@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 18d
Looking at Trump once tells me our ancestors got lucky quite often.
Rooster326@programming.dev · 1 pts · 17d
The vast majority of strategies thus far
ICastFist@programming.dev · 2 pts · 17d
Move to a large river, lake or the sea and fish up, ezpz
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 18d
Early humans if they were introduced to modern conveniences:
Snapz@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 18d
You could start a "men's retreat" and charge conservatives $18,000/week to do this to themselves.
SethTaylor@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 18d
To be fair, you can still shit standing up
spizzat2@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 18d
And (almost) nothing makes sense again!
rumba@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 18d
And it's probably still just as ineffective
UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 17d
You can murder the neighbor and steal his wife... (Reminder for anyone disliking civilization)
Nouvellalia@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 18d
The number of people in here who think that pre-historical bodies were as frail as city bodies, is very high. The only thing city bodies do well is resist the fettid creep surrounding their lifestyle.
Outside people didn't get sepsis and starve all the time. In that habitat that city people find terrifying, they thrive. They are very very susceptible to the top tier viruses, bacteria, alcohol, sugar, entertainment, and control structures bred by thousands of generations of natural selection in the people pile though.