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Amazing_Library_5045 t1_j1q58zd wrote

Reply to comment by themistergraves in What do you see happening over the next 300 years to a millennia? In what way will it be different to how it is today? by Serious_Final_989

People died at 35 on average - > that's one of the fallacy of using averages. There was a LOT more infant mortality. It's pulling the average down so much its no longer representative of reality.

It wasn't rare for people to live to 60yo.

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Khutuck t1_j1qckd5 wrote

Ask anyone around you if they ever had a serious illness that required hospitalization or strong antibiotics. If they did, they would not survive that illness a hundred years ago.

I think more than half of the people I know would already be dead if it was a century ago, including me.

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Vaiiki t1_j1qcxgh wrote

The ol strep throat got little Jimmy.

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Chemical_Doughnut248 t1_j1rn70u wrote

Lol are you high, you’re talking about 1922. Plenty of people survived illnesses and injuries. A large number of vaccines were already in use

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