Re:Rare brain-eating amoebas killed woman who rinsed her sin...
by erik_seaberg on Saturday December 15, 2018 @10:01PM
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30 is the mean between infants and 60-year-olds. There has never been a society in which dying at 30 was typical.
Re:Rare brain-eating amoebas killed woman who rinsed her sin...
by TheCoelacanth on Sunday December 16, 2018 @11:58AM
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Infant mortality was the biggest contributor, but there was also higher mortality across all age groups.
Re:Rare brain-eating amoebas killed woman who rinsed her sin...
by 8bitsrule on Monday December 17, 2018 @08:17AM
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IMO most of 'average life expectancy' can be attributed to human ignorance and savagery. Like the savagery of pouring dyes into rivers until too many people die of bladder cancer, then moving the factories to another continent. Repeatedly. Or the savagery of using scientific knowledge to create nukes ... and use them.
One example of ignorance is knee-jerk, gainsaying, scientism about alternatives to Western medicine. My use of Neti was recommended by a well-trained physician, and it was very beneficial. There was indeed practical wisdom in the world before the rise of materialist rationalism.
Oh yeah... and western medicine couldn't save the lady's ass. I'm sure the bill was VERY healthy though.
Yes. And in that time period, average life expectancy was somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 years. The risk of death from neti pot use was hardly significant compared to all the other health risks anyone living at the time would be exposed to.
The same goes for skin cancer. It's a meaningful risk to us today because we can live long enough for the cumulative damage from solar radiation to be a meaningful cause of mortality.